Joining the chorus of book tube well-wishers and friends in sending you solidarity and all the best during your difficult time. Always makes me happy to see you here G.
I hope you know that you bring so much grace and wit to Booktube, and that as a virtuous cycle, I hope some of that energy is returned from all of us to your wife’s health and your family’s wellbeing.
Glad to see you back in action, G! I totally agree with your wife, you should definitely continue with your channel. I only know Fred Saberhagen for his Berserker novels; some are pretty good, others less so. It's interesting to see how several SF writers have taken to writing Dracula novels... Wish you and your wife all the best, and that she makes a full recovery. Take care!
Excellent to see you, Grammaticus. Thinking of you, your wife and family. She is a warrior and I’ll be keeping you all in my prayers.! Nice to have found the Saberhagen. Added to my TBR. Thanks as always for sharing your reading.
Thanks for the update, and my thoughts and wishes for you and She Who Must Be Obeyed. The olde style illustrations are exceptional. We need to get back to using them on our books,
Loved the Lloyd Alexander novels as a kid. Tried to read them aloud to my daughter and her interest fizzled halfway through the second book. All the best to She- your wife- :)
Good luck and best wishes! Definitely finish Prydain. They get better and more adult as they go. PS..I also read Dresden drip by drip. I think I left off with book 6 or 7. Looking forward to getting back to those. Thanks for the vid!
Glad you're back but I'm glad you're taking your taking care of your wife I've missed seeing you been a hard few for me no were as bad as yours but it felt like something was missing without your videos you're family been on my mind since your last video and I agree with your wife just keep fighting and do what you must I will continue to keep your family in my and your family in my thoughts
Great to see you back. Continued positive vibes to your family. Hang in there with The Dresdin Files...the big payoff comes at book #14 "Changes" ...or so I'm told, I'm not even as far along as you are yet.
You mentioned Andersonville. Makes want to read Escape From Andersonville by Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan. All the best wishes in the world to you and your family sir.
Don't worry about White Night. It's the low point in the series. The next book Proven Guilty picks up in a HUGE way! Glad to see you again, sir! Give my best to the Missus and the rest of the family.
Good to see you Grammaticus, best wishes to your wife. The only Bujold I've read so far is The Curse Of Chalion and I really enjoyed that. I'll have to have a look into the Vorkosigan books.
It's so good to see you again, Grammaticus. You and your wife and your whole family remain in my thoughts and prayers. I know you've been in the hearts and minds of everyone in our community. I keep hearing about the Dresden Files here. I wonder if I'd enjoy them? You are tempting me even though this one that you are reading now is not really thrilling you. It sounds like many of the earlier ones were really good. The Dracula Tape looks interesting. Speaking of Dracula, did you read or hear that an early, previously unpublished story written by Bram Stoker--a pre-Dracula story--has been discovered by a fan? It had only been published in a now-defunct Dublin newspaper. It's going to be released in a book this week at the Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin. Pretty cool. Terrific video, my friend. Again, wonderful to see you.
Thank you Pat and I had not heard about the Dracula pre-release/rough draft! That will be a very interesting story to follow. I will keep an eye out for news on it and I'm sure you will cover it on your great channel! (which is where I'll go to get news!)
@@GrammaticusBooks it’s not exactly a Dracula draft but rather a story he never published anywhere except in this Dublin newspaper. Roy sent me a copy of it. I’ll try to send to you on Voxer. 🧛🏻♂️😉
Disney did part of the Prydain chronicles as "The Black Cauldron", which was basically the second book in the series. I think "White Nights" was the last Dresden book I read; I also remember the series on the Syfy channel. I no longer have the Dracula books, I do have "the Frankenstein Papers". My comic book collection now consists of about 18 issues of Howard the Duck, and regret giving away the Heavy Metals. Best wishes to your wife and yourself.
Thanks Kathy. I'll see if I can run down the Black Cauldron. And those old Howard the Duck comics were great! I wish I'd collected them when they were first coming out.
So happy that you're back with engaging suggestions and keeping yourself doing what you love. Hoping your wife's treatments progress as best as possible. Much love
Thanks Watsonda and I'd love to hear what you thought of Glory Road. Good or not so good? I thought it was a difficult book to classify and nail down. But the sum of the parts were greater than the whole.
Welcome back Grammaticus! It's a bummer that the last story in that series was a let down. Hopefully the author will get his act together and do better in the next one. I'm happy you found the Saberhagen book. It, along with Holmes/Dracula were some of my favorites in that series.
Thanks Chad. And it was only recently that I learned Saberhagen wrote this series. Previously, all I was aware of from Saberhagen were his Berserker novels.
I like the Butcher, and think he has come a long way as a writer from his earliest works. I am current with the novels (#17) but have a novella to catch up on. I would like to commend Butcher on one thing - many writers write short stories of their characters, and distribute them to anthologies, etc. So you may have to get an anthology of 10 writers to get all of the author you like. Butcher has apparently kept repub rights, and every so often publishes a self anthology of all the shorts and novellas, the two being Side Jobs and Brief Cases. I do regret one thing for him, he has gone further and further into the fantasy and left the urban setting behind. Early Harry was much less powerful, but the fact he did it in the "real world" was different from many. He may come back to the setting, but for a HUGE battle with monstrously powerful foes. He's also started a steampunk series, two novels in. Cinder Spires. Humanity is living in huge towers, the Spires, two miles high and two miles wide. And not going out on the surface. They fly between them in airships crystals providing lift from etheric energy, also used for cannon. And talking cats. But they only speak Cat. Few humans do. And some few genetically modified humans, faster and stronger4 than us. Warriorborn. Swords and power gauntlets. First is aeronaut's Windlass. Prayers to your wife and yourself. Take care of you as well - cancer can leave victims that were not infected, only affected.
Thanks Fionam and I will keep an eye out for those Jim Butcher anthologies of short stories. I often feel writers do their best work in short story form.
Glad to see you back and everything is going as well as you could expect. Thank you for all you do. Have you watched the Dresden Files TV show with Paul Blackthorne? He is so great in the lead role. Of course, it only lasted one season...
Thank you Greger. And I have actually watched a few of the Dresden Files on the SciFi network. I watched the first couple. But then stopped because I realized they were following the novels and I didn't want any spoilers. I do plan on returning to the series when I'm done reading the books.
Great to see you back on here so quick mate. Big love to you and your wife. I'm only on book 3 of the Dresden Files but have enjoyed the first two. Love the wrap up.
@@GrammaticusBooks haha I'll keep my radar up for book 10 then....and heed your words. I'm reading the Rivers of London books first...got 3 more to go of those.
@@GrammaticusBooks I wish I could get you to read the Dray Prescott books by Kenneth Bulmer. They are the best pastiche of The Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Much more detailed. Bulmer unfortunately used a lot of fake names. He had the idea that the name went with the style of story. All his books have value. He wrote the best battle armor book ever in the Diamond Contessa. Lots of series. It took me 20 years to find out what his real name was. Alan Burt Akers so obvious fake. But cool.
Thanks Seth and back at you sir! The Prydain Chronicles ~ definitely in the YA category but competently rendered. I'd love to hear your second impression of it!
Yeh Jim Snoozer - avoid. Good to see you back. Sounds like Half price books is adopting Australian bookshop pricing tactics ! Is that omibus in colour or black and white ?
Booktubers are the Breath of Sanity and Decency in this world. Your reasoned and humorous responses after I make fun of Conan, make me smile. All the very best to you and your family. The very best wishes for for you and your loved ones, and hope you're doing well. Please don't feel you need to post to keep us updated. Have faith that your bookfriends are thinking of you and your family, and regard you fondly in your times of troubles. 😉❤🤞 Seriously, the Book of the Three? If you wish to remain YA, I'd recommend Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising. Do try to get the illustrated hardback, the one published in the 80's, with the awesome illustrations. On the other hand, if you're into talking pigs, and magical pig herders, (and who isn't?) Riddlemaster of Hed is your book. 😉 I love the Dracula Tapes. Seriously, Van Helsing is a moron. 🙄
Thank you User that is sincerely appreciated. I don't think I'll continue with the Prydain series but I'm very much looking forward to The Dracula Tape!
White Night is one of the more forgettable Dresden Files novels. I enjoyed it but the one before and after are a lot better. Don't get me started with the Half Price Books prices 🤦. My biggest complaint is the inconsistency. I picked a 1 edition of Duma Key by Stephen King for $9 in great shape. Then I see copy of The Stand in terrible shape with no dust jacket for $35. I want a hardcover copy of the original version of The Stand but not for that price. I see a lot of Conan comic book reading in my near future. I want to make a video about them. I was pleasantly suprised to see a video from you this morning. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Joseph. Another trend I've noticed at HPB, is they put vintage SF and fantasy in plastic book protectors, hang them on a rack, and tack on about $10 to the price. While you can still find the exact same copy in their open shelving for less.
Grammaticus returns! With a SSOC Omnibus no less! That book is fantastic, of course. Break out that book holder! I really liked The Dracula Tape despite its highly unreliable narrator.
I love Saberhagen but admit he's not the best writer. Still a solid choice. I've read all his Berserker and Swords/Lost Swords books and a bunch of others such as Octagon and some of the Vampire books. Love the idea that Dracula is actually a good guy unfairly slandered by Bram Stoker. I need to get into Vorkosigan and Prydain someday.
Now I tend to get going with an author & read them out. I would not score anything she wrote about Miles or in his “universe” below an 8. The story about the camp I can’t rate cause I would end up saying 12 or something else that violates borders of the scale so just gonna say inspired brilliance! READ IT!
You do what you must do, it's how these things work....
Thank you James!
@@GrammaticusBooks ua-cam.com/video/ZNyxqDC9CCQ/v-deo.htmlsi=ZwOlymappF5l_kYe just for you.
Good to hear from you Grammaticus. Praying for you all.
Thank you KDJ.
It's always a good day when there's new Grammaticus Books video to watch. Best wishes to you and the family. I hope you're all keeping well.
Thanks ATP! That is much appreciated.
I just got the Dracula Tape! I am very excited about it. I hope that you enjoy it. good fortune and best wishes go out to you and your family.
Thank you Hernandez and The Dracula Tape is next up on my reading list!
“Nae commanded.” Discipline is love in this case. Great to see your video up this morning. Haven’t read any Bujold but will look to pick up some.
Thanks Richard and I would be very much interested in hearing your take on Bujold and the Vorkosigan series.
Joining the chorus of book tube well-wishers and friends in sending you solidarity and all the best during your difficult time. Always makes me happy to see you here G.
Thanks Buck, much appreciated as always sir!
always good to see some content by you
Thank you JB!
Welcome back, sir. Good to see you
Thanks Tristan!
I hope you know that you bring so much grace and wit to Booktube, and that as a virtuous cycle, I hope some of that energy is returned from all of us to your wife’s health and your family’s wellbeing.
Thank you Paul, I will pass that along to my wife. Take care sir.
Glad to see you back in action, G! I totally agree with your wife, you should definitely continue with your channel.
I only know Fred Saberhagen for his Berserker novels; some are pretty good, others less so. It's interesting to see how several SF writers have taken to writing Dracula novels...
Wish you and your wife all the best, and that she makes a full recovery. Take care!
Thanks Luiz and until recently I wasn't aware Saberhagen wrote anything other than his Berserker series!
Excellent to see you, Grammaticus. Thinking of you, your wife and family. She is a warrior and I’ll be keeping you all in my prayers.! Nice to have found the Saberhagen. Added to my TBR. Thanks as always for sharing your reading.
Thanks JF and thank you as always for checking out the video.
Thanks for the update, and my thoughts and wishes for you and She Who Must Be Obeyed. The olde style illustrations are exceptional. We need to get back to using them on our books,
Thanks Mark and I agree. The old illustrations were excellent!
Really glad to see you back. I hope your wife is doing alright, all things considered
Thank you John, I sincerely appreciate the well wishes.
Great to see the channel back. Wishing all the best to you, your wife and family. Hoping your wife’s treatment goes as well as possible.
Thank you Hognatius that is much appreciated sir.
Nice to see you back. Can't wait for that Conan Omnibus to get the Grammaticus treatment.
Oh it will! And thank you DeeeBeee.
Loved the Lloyd Alexander novels as a kid. Tried to read them aloud to my daughter and her interest fizzled halfway through the second book.
All the best to She- your wife-
:)
Thanks Sleepy!
Good luck and best wishes! Definitely finish Prydain. They get better and more adult as they go. PS..I also read Dresden drip by drip. I think I left off with book 6 or 7. Looking forward to getting back to those. Thanks for the vid!
I skipped Taran Wanderer, read the ending of the series, and unimpressed, I went straight to Suzy Cooper's Dark is Rising. So much better...😉
Those are sitting on my TBR as well....will definitely check them out soon.:-)
Thank you James and thank you for checking out the video.
Thanks and best wishes to you and your wife in this trying time.
Thank you MC it is much appreciated.
Good to see you, my friend. This is when the Dresden Files went south for me as well.
Thanks Bob...do the Dresden books recover later on at all?
@@GrammaticusBooks not really… the power creep gets out of hand… but there are moments that make them worthwhile… all too brief moments
Glad you're back but I'm glad you're taking your taking care of your wife I've missed seeing you been a hard few for me no were as bad as yours but it felt like something was missing without your videos you're family been on my mind since your last video and I agree with your wife just keep fighting and do what you must I will continue to keep your family in my and your family in my thoughts
Thank you Doctor Friday!
I've never read Lois McMaster Bujold, but I like all the other authors you mentioned a lot. I should probably reread them, in fact.
I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on the Dresden files! Have you reviewed them previously?
Great to see you back. Continued positive vibes to your family. Hang in there with The Dresdin Files...the big payoff comes at book #14 "Changes" ...or so I'm told, I'm not even as far along as you are yet.
Thanks BSA. And I'll stick with Dresden. The series has been too good so far to give up on it now!
You mentioned Andersonville. Makes want to read Escape From Andersonville by Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan. All the best wishes in the world to you and your family sir.
Thanks Orcman...and Gene Hackman as in the actor? Or is that a movie instead of a book?
@@GrammaticusBooks oh it’s a book! Hackman has written 5 books, 3 with his buddy Danny and 2 solo. I’ve read 3 of them, they are excellent.
Good to see you back.
Thank you Annie!
“See who must be obeyed”. Ain’t that the truth. 👩❤️👨
Most certainly!
Don't worry about White Night. It's the low point in the series. The next book Proven Guilty picks up in a HUGE way!
Glad to see you again, sir! Give my best to the Missus and the rest of the family.
Thanks SFB and I'll definitely continue on with the series. The previous eight were just too good to give up on it now!
Braw to see you! Stay positive and strong. Sending best wishes to your wife and family.
Thank you Kevin, much appreciated.
Good to see you Grammaticus, best wishes to your wife.
The only Bujold I've read so far is The Curse Of Chalion and I really enjoyed that. I'll have to have a look into the Vorkosigan books.
Thanks FF. The Vorkosigan series is excellent YA Military SF. Although it borders right on adult SF. I'd love to hear what you think of it.
Good to see you back, if even for a short time, Grammaticus. We wish you and your family all the best. Enjoy your reading!
Thanks Jim!
It's so good to see you again, Grammaticus. You and your wife and your whole family remain in my thoughts and prayers. I know you've been in the hearts and minds of everyone in our community. I keep hearing about the Dresden Files here. I wonder if I'd enjoy them? You are tempting me even though this one that you are reading now is not really thrilling you. It sounds like many of the earlier ones were really good. The Dracula Tape looks interesting. Speaking of Dracula, did you read or hear that an early, previously unpublished story written by Bram Stoker--a pre-Dracula story--has been discovered by a fan? It had only been published in a now-defunct Dublin newspaper. It's going to be released in a book this week at the Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin. Pretty cool. Terrific video, my friend. Again, wonderful to see you.
Thank you Pat and I had not heard about the Dracula pre-release/rough draft! That will be a very interesting story to follow. I will keep an eye out for news on it and I'm sure you will cover it on your great channel! (which is where I'll go to get news!)
@@GrammaticusBooks it’s not exactly a Dracula draft but rather a story he never published anywhere except in this Dublin newspaper. Roy sent me a copy of it. I’ll try to send to you on Voxer. 🧛🏻♂️😉
Disney did part of the Prydain chronicles as "The Black Cauldron", which was basically the second book in the series. I think "White Nights" was the last Dresden book I read; I also remember the series on the Syfy channel. I no longer have the Dracula books, I do have "the Frankenstein Papers". My comic book collection now consists of about 18 issues of Howard the Duck, and regret giving away the Heavy Metals.
Best wishes to your wife and yourself.
Thanks Kathy. I'll see if I can run down the Black Cauldron. And those old Howard the Duck comics were great! I wish I'd collected them when they were first coming out.
Great to see you! Also, happy one year channel anniversary!
Thank you Liminal! That is much appreciated and I believe you crossed your one year anniversary not that long ago?
So happy that you're back with engaging suggestions and keeping yourself doing what you love. Hoping your wife's treatments progress as best as possible. Much love
Thank you Cmgsgm! That is much appreciated sir.
The zeroth law of BookTube: your channel, your rules.
All the best to Mrs G.B..
Hah! I like it!
Good to see you man! I finally read Glory Road per your recommendation. Thanks! Thinking of you and your family.
Thanks Watsonda and I'd love to hear what you thought of Glory Road. Good or not so good? I thought it was a difficult book to classify and nail down. But the sum of the parts were greater than the whole.
@@GrammaticusBooks Agreed! I enjoyed it but felt a little down at the end. Overall fun.
Welcome back Grammaticus! It's a bummer that the last story in that series was a let down. Hopefully the author will get his act together and do better in the next one. I'm happy you found the Saberhagen book. It, along with Holmes/Dracula were some of my favorites in that series.
Thanks Steven and I'm looking forward to reading the Dracula Tape!
Best wishes and good thoughts to you both. Saberhagen is always a good read, I've been meaning to track down the Dracula novels.
Thanks Chad. And it was only recently that I learned Saberhagen wrote this series. Previously, all I was aware of from Saberhagen were his Berserker novels.
@@GrammaticusBooks my childhood library has lots of his stuff. I started with the Swords Trilogy and moved on to Berserkers.
I like the Butcher, and think he has come a long way as a writer from his earliest works. I am current with the novels (#17) but have a novella to catch up on. I would like to commend Butcher on one thing - many writers write short stories of their characters, and distribute them to anthologies, etc. So you may have to get an anthology of 10 writers to get all of the author you like. Butcher has apparently kept repub rights, and every so often publishes a self anthology of all the shorts and novellas, the two being Side Jobs and Brief Cases. I do regret one thing for him, he has gone further and further into the fantasy and left the urban setting behind. Early Harry was much less powerful, but the fact he did it in the "real world" was different from many. He may come back to the setting, but for a HUGE battle with monstrously powerful foes.
He's also started a steampunk series, two novels in. Cinder Spires. Humanity is living in huge towers, the Spires, two miles high and two miles wide. And not going out on the surface. They fly between them in airships crystals providing lift from etheric energy, also used for cannon. And talking cats. But they only speak Cat. Few humans do. And some few genetically modified humans, faster and stronger4 than us. Warriorborn. Swords and power gauntlets. First is aeronaut's Windlass.
Prayers to your wife and yourself. Take care of you as well - cancer can leave victims that were not infected, only affected.
Thanks Fionam and I will keep an eye out for those Jim Butcher anthologies of short stories. I often feel writers do their best work in short story form.
Continued prayers for you and your wife.
Thank you Randy and I hope you are feeling well.
Glad to see you back and everything is going as well as you could expect. Thank you for all you do. Have you watched the Dresden Files TV show with Paul Blackthorne? He is so great in the lead role. Of course, it only lasted one season...
Thank you Greger. And I have actually watched a few of the Dresden Files on the SciFi network. I watched the first couple. But then stopped because I realized they were following the novels and I didn't want any spoilers. I do plan on returning to the series when I'm done reading the books.
Great to see you back on here so quick mate. Big love to you and your wife. I'm only on book 3 of the Dresden Files but have enjoyed the first two. Love the wrap up.
Thanks Gareth, that is much appreciated. And the Dresden files just get better and better...until book nine!
@@GrammaticusBooks haha I'll keep my radar up for book 10 then....and heed your words. I'm reading the Rivers of London books first...got 3 more to go of those.
Im glad he is still reading my library 📚
As am I Mike! Thank you for checking out the video sir!
@@GrammaticusBooks I wish I could get you to read the Dray Prescott books by Kenneth Bulmer. They are the best pastiche of The Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Much more detailed. Bulmer unfortunately used a lot of fake names. He had the idea that the name went with the style of story. All his books have value. He wrote the best battle armor book ever in the Diamond Contessa. Lots of series. It took me 20 years to find out what his real name was. Alan Burt Akers so obvious fake. But cool.
@@MusicMike939 Battle Armor as in SF power armor Mike? And those ERB pastiche books sound like they're worth checking out!
It's always good to see your videos. I remember reading the Prydain series when I was a kid, and I've thought about going back to see if they hold up.
Thanks Seth and back at you sir! The Prydain Chronicles ~ definitely in the YA category but competently rendered. I'd love to hear your second impression of it!
@@GrammaticusBooks I may have to put it on my TBR now. I remember enjoying the series but thinking that some of the books were better than others.
Yeh Jim Snoozer - avoid. Good to see you back. Sounds like Half price books is adopting Australian bookshop pricing tactics ! Is that omibus in colour or black and white ?
Thanks DDB and the original Savage Swords were black and white so the omnibus keeps that format.
Booktubers are the Breath of Sanity and Decency in this world. Your reasoned and humorous responses after I make fun of Conan, make me smile. All the very best to you and your family. The very best wishes for for you and your loved ones, and hope you're doing well. Please don't feel you need to post to keep us updated. Have faith that your bookfriends are thinking of you and your family, and regard you fondly in your times of troubles. 😉❤🤞
Seriously, the Book of the Three? If you wish to remain YA, I'd recommend Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising. Do try to get the illustrated hardback, the one published in the 80's, with the awesome illustrations. On the other hand, if you're into talking pigs, and magical pig herders, (and who isn't?) Riddlemaster of Hed is your book. 😉
I love the Dracula Tapes. Seriously, Van Helsing is a moron. 🙄
Thank you User that is sincerely appreciated. I don't think I'll continue with the Prydain series but I'm very much looking forward to The Dracula Tape!
White Night is one of the more forgettable Dresden Files novels. I enjoyed it but the one before and after are a lot better.
Don't get me started with the Half Price Books prices 🤦. My biggest complaint is the inconsistency. I picked a 1 edition of Duma Key by Stephen King for $9 in great shape. Then I see copy of The Stand in terrible shape with no dust jacket for $35. I want a hardcover copy of the original version of The Stand but not for that price.
I see a lot of Conan comic book reading in my near future. I want to make a video about them.
I was pleasantly suprised to see a video from you this morning.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks Joseph. Another trend I've noticed at HPB, is they put vintage SF and fantasy in plastic book protectors, hang them on a rack, and tack on about $10 to the price. While you can still find the exact same copy in their open shelving for less.
I wouldn't say The Dracula Tapes really counts as an Occult Detective novel in any case, although it's well worth reading.
It is pushing that envelope a bit Dave!
Grammaticus returns! With a SSOC Omnibus no less! That book is fantastic, of course. Break out that book holder!
I really liked The Dracula Tape despite its highly unreliable narrator.
LOL! Yes it's already found it's place in the 'holder of massive books'. And I'm very much looking forward to Vlad's clap-back at Mr. Bram Stoker!
I love Saberhagen but admit he's not the best writer. Still a solid choice. I've read all his Berserker and Swords/Lost Swords books and a bunch of others such as Octagon and some of the Vampire books. Love the idea that Dracula is actually a good guy unfairly slandered by Bram Stoker.
I need to get into Vorkosigan and Prydain someday.
I do plan on reading the Dracula Tape next. I'm looking forward to it!
Now I tend to get going with an author & read them out. I would not score anything she wrote about Miles or in his “universe” below an 8. The story about the camp I can’t rate cause I would end up saying 12 or something else that violates borders of the scale so just gonna say inspired brilliance! READ IT!
Borders of Infinity was an excellent tale!
Ah bummer, I liked all the Dresden books even if the last one ticked me off a bit lol.
I just finished this one Storm. And the last 50 pages were actually pretty decent. Now the previous 330 pages.....
Warhammer/Black Library books are terrible - why anyone would pay premium prices for them is beyond me.
There are certainly a ton of them. There are a few I like though. If you can find WH books written by Dan Abnett, his novels are generally decent.