Apologies to my regular viewers who will recognize a lot of these. There are a few bonus books thrown in that I've never mentioned before. #classics #reading #booktube
Howard Pyle created more pirate myths and lore than anyone else. There was no such thing as walking the plank, it never happened. I highly recommend the UK TV series from the late 1950’s called THE BUCCANEERS which takes place on Nassau (New Providence) during the time it was run by pirates. It’s terrific! Another great video! Thanks, beautiful lady (and as I'm 66 years old, please take that as a compliment and not harassment!).--Glen
I saw some of his original artwork in Salem and it blew me away! Love Pyle! I will have to give the buccaneers a try, if I can find the 1950s show! Haha, I will definitely take it as a compliment :)
@@InfiniteText Don’t expect too much from the vintage TV series from the UK I recommended, THE BUCCANEERS. It’s not historically accurate, I’m sure, but it’s a lot of fun and focuses on pirate lore more than facts. I think the whole series is available in the USA on DVD. And maybe a handful of poor quality copies on YT.
"My Antonia" by Willa Cather has winter scenes but the summer are just as glorious. It is such a beautiful book of coming of age, Polish immigrants interfacing with Americans and the land, the relationship with the earth, poverty, and life onthe prairie. It has beautiful passages describing the landscape. This video was most interesting, Andrea. I am glad you are back. I do miss the dramatic channel intro you previously had. 😸
Ha! I had a few people tell me it startled them. I'm glad you enjoyed. I have never read any Willa Cather but I know she's on many "top 100" lists. Your synopsis really makes me want to read it. Thank you
The greatest summer book of all time is DANDELION WINE by Ray Bradbury. 🌼 I was lucky to be friends with Ray Bradbury for many years and he once told me the greatest compliment he ever received was when he got letters from Japan and Russia and all the far points of the globe telling him he captured their childhoods perfectly in DANDELION WINE! 🍷
OMG! you met Ray Bradbury and were friends with him?!?!?!?! That's amazing!!! I watch his public speeches that were recorded every time I need a confidence boost or feel down. There's something about his love of books and dinosaurs that speaks to me.
@@InfiniteText Yes, we would get together in Illinois and then later when I moved to Los Angeles. We had many lunches together with a lot of beer drinking! I'll never forget it or him.
Also - it's winter here so I'm doing winter reading, but a summer read that comes to mind is the Melendy Quartet by Elizabeth Enright. Four books for older children, beginning with "The Saturdays", but it's really the next two in the series that evoke childhood summers in the best way. ...oh, one more thing in reference to your last video about weird fiction! Have you played the video game Darkest Dungeon? If you haven't and you're prepared to play video games, I think you'd love it. You'd probably pick up on all sorts of Lovecraftian references that I have missed.
We had to read the four story mistake for a children's literature course once, it was very pleasant! I wish I played video games, people recommend Skyrim to me a lot. I am not a gamer, I'm afraid. I just don't have the setup. I hope to make a winter recommendation video....but maybe I'll wait until it's winter here.
I just finished reading Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse a couple of days ago. I was pondering reading The Glass Bead Game... I think you gave me the nudge I needed :)
Yes! (just beware chapter 1...the introduction of "the bead game" can be quite boring and dry) I'm telling you because I gave up on it twice and then pushed through and the real story begins after that chapter. Totally worth it in the end!
One of the pairings that could be made for Moby Dick is Melville's own true account of his time on an exotic Polynesian island, where he became a prized treasure of the tribal chief and had to escape in mortal danger: Typee. It's fascinating! I'm keen to get Ahab's Rolling Sea now. I have to pass on The Great Auk story - I'm already so jaded about human nature.The Awakening/Matrescence sounds interesting, but then I am not female. Palaces for the People and Heidi and Enchanted Hunters and Dandelion Wine and Ray Bradbury, especially The Last Interview, Green Shadows, White Whale, and Anna Karenina, The Possessed (those cover cartoons look so much like those of Roz Chast) and "A Swim In The Rain In The Pond" as you say, and Travels With Charley, Huckleberry Finn, and Walden . . . you push my buttons with all these. And this comment is already Very Long!! At the present, I'm buried in reading Paradise Lost and The Story of Civilization, volume one ( only 973 pages, excluding bibliography, index, etc).
No Pressure friend! You don't have to read them all. Sometimes it's just nice to know they exist! If you're ever in a specific kind of reading mood you know there's a book for that like a prescription! That does sound like quite the tome you're reading
Wow! Fantastic list. Some of these are favorites of mine. Several were on my radar, but you piqued my interest in them. I read War and Peace in the summer. 😅
Thanks for these summer recommendations! I've been interested in reading seasonly so this helps give me some ideas! From the list you mentioned, the only book I've read was The Awakening (probably 20 or so years ago)
@InfiniteText I realized afterwards that last year I also read Little House in the big woods (I think it's called-the first in the Little house on the prairie series) it was interesting from a historical perspective, but realized afterwards in reading reviews on Goodreads controversial/offensive to a lot of people...:/
@@SimpleHealth83 I quit Goodreads a few years ago. There's a lot going on there like people reviewing books when they've only been announced (not even released early copies). My little sister really enjoyed all the little house books, I missed out on it in my childhood
I've been on the lookout for Ahab's Rolling Sea since your previous video about it. It's hard to find here in Australia, and expensive, but I have a feeling I'm going to cave in and order it anyway sometime soon.
Oh no! I'm so sorry, maybe there's an online copy via a library system or something. I know there's a beautiful audiobook of it on audible, it's very pleasant to listen to!
I haven't read any Hesse yet😮. Is the first book you talked about a good place to start? This list was a really good one, Andrea! Main Street I've never heard of! The cover makes me wonder if that's a book I'd love. Is it quaint and cozy?
If you do start with The Glass Bead Game beware the first chapter! Get through it, the real story begins after the long description of the "bead game." Main Street was going to win the Pulitzer but they gave it to Edith Wharton for the age of innocence instead (first woman to win it!) and then later Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize (for Main Street most likely). It's half cozy, half a bunch of parties and conversations among the wealthy and elite. It came out in 1920
@@InfiniteText I just read the age of innocence. I loved it for everything it had in it especially the pining and the historical detail! I now know what a Carcel lamp looks like and a Jacqueminot rose! Never know when you might need to know these things.
Howard Pyle created more pirate myths and lore than anyone else. There was no such thing as walking the plank, it never happened. I highly recommend the UK TV series from the late 1950’s called THE BUCCANEERS which takes place on Nassau (New Providence) during the time it was run by pirates. It’s terrific! Another great video! Thanks, beautiful lady (and as I'm 66 years old, please take that as a compliment and not harassment!).--Glen
I saw some of his original artwork in Salem and it blew me away! Love Pyle! I will have to give the buccaneers a try, if I can find the 1950s show! Haha, I will definitely take it as a compliment :)
@@InfiniteText Don’t expect too much from the vintage TV series from the UK I recommended, THE BUCCANEERS. It’s not historically accurate, I’m sure, but it’s a lot of fun and focuses on pirate lore more than facts. I think the whole series is available in the USA on DVD. And maybe a handful of poor quality copies on YT.
"My Antonia" by Willa Cather has winter scenes but the summer are just as glorious. It is such a beautiful book of coming of age, Polish immigrants interfacing with Americans and the land, the relationship with the earth, poverty, and life onthe prairie. It has beautiful passages describing the landscape. This video was most interesting, Andrea. I am glad you are back. I do miss the dramatic channel intro you previously had. 😸
Ha! I had a few people tell me it startled them. I'm glad you enjoyed. I have never read any Willa Cather but I know she's on many "top 100" lists. Your synopsis really makes me want to read it. Thank you
The greatest summer book of all time is DANDELION WINE by Ray Bradbury. 🌼 I was lucky to be friends with Ray Bradbury for many years and he once told me the greatest compliment he ever received was when he got letters from Japan and Russia and all the far points of the globe telling him he captured their childhoods perfectly in DANDELION WINE! 🍷
OMG! you met Ray Bradbury and were friends with him?!?!?!?! That's amazing!!! I watch his public speeches that were recorded every time I need a confidence boost or feel down. There's something about his love of books and dinosaurs that speaks to me.
@@InfiniteText Yes, we would get together in Illinois and then later when I moved to Los Angeles. We had many lunches together with a lot of beer drinking! I'll never forget it or him.
@@ProfessorEchoMedia how wonderful!
Also - it's winter here so I'm doing winter reading, but a summer read that comes to mind is the Melendy Quartet by Elizabeth Enright. Four books for older children, beginning with "The Saturdays", but it's really the next two in the series that evoke childhood summers in the best way.
...oh, one more thing in reference to your last video about weird fiction! Have you played the video game Darkest Dungeon? If you haven't and you're prepared to play video games, I think you'd love it. You'd probably pick up on all sorts of Lovecraftian references that I have missed.
We had to read the four story mistake for a children's literature course once, it was very pleasant! I wish I played video games, people recommend Skyrim to me a lot. I am not a gamer, I'm afraid. I just don't have the setup. I hope to make a winter recommendation video....but maybe I'll wait until it's winter here.
I just finished reading Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse a couple of days ago. I was pondering reading The Glass Bead Game... I think you gave me the nudge I needed :)
Yes! (just beware chapter 1...the introduction of "the bead game" can be quite boring and dry) I'm telling you because I gave up on it twice and then pushed through and the real story begins after that chapter. Totally worth it in the end!
@@InfiniteText Ok! Thanks for the heads up :)
One of the pairings that could be made for Moby Dick is Melville's own true account of his time on an exotic Polynesian island, where he became a prized treasure of the tribal chief and had to escape in mortal danger: Typee. It's fascinating! I'm keen to get Ahab's Rolling Sea now. I have to pass on The Great Auk story - I'm already so jaded about human nature.The Awakening/Matrescence sounds interesting, but then I am not female. Palaces for the People and Heidi and Enchanted Hunters and Dandelion Wine and Ray Bradbury, especially The Last Interview, Green Shadows, White Whale, and Anna Karenina, The Possessed (those cover cartoons look so much like those of Roz Chast) and "A Swim In The Rain In The Pond" as you say, and Travels With Charley, Huckleberry Finn, and Walden . . . you push my buttons with all these. And this comment is already Very Long!! At the present, I'm buried in reading Paradise Lost and The Story of Civilization, volume one ( only 973 pages, excluding bibliography, index, etc).
No Pressure friend! You don't have to read them all. Sometimes it's just nice to know they exist! If you're ever in a specific kind of reading mood you know there's a book for that like a prescription! That does sound like quite the tome you're reading
Wow! Fantastic list. Some of these are favorites of mine. Several were on my radar, but you piqued my interest in them. I read War and Peace in the summer. 😅
That's a whole summer right there....that's quite the tome.
Thanks for these summer recommendations! I've been interested in reading seasonly so this helps give me some ideas! From the list you mentioned, the only book I've read was The Awakening (probably 20 or so years ago)
That's a good one though, really stays with you. I sometimes tend to try to escape the season I'm in and read opposite!
@InfiniteText I realized afterwards that last year I also read Little House in the big woods (I think it's called-the first in the Little house on the prairie series) it was interesting from a historical perspective, but realized afterwards in reading reviews on Goodreads controversial/offensive to a lot of people...:/
@@SimpleHealth83 I quit Goodreads a few years ago. There's a lot going on there like people reviewing books when they've only been announced (not even released early copies). My little sister really enjoyed all the little house books, I missed out on it in my childhood
I've been on the lookout for Ahab's Rolling Sea since your previous video about it. It's hard to find here in Australia, and expensive, but I have a feeling I'm going to cave in and order it anyway sometime soon.
Oh no! I'm so sorry, maybe there's an online copy via a library system or something. I know there's a beautiful audiobook of it on audible, it's very pleasant to listen to!
@@InfiniteText hmm, I hadn't thought about an audiobook, thank you!
So the great auk was murdered into extinction on my birthday 150 years before I was born.
@@Juliana-Bub maybe it was July 3!
I haven't read any Hesse yet😮. Is the first book you talked about a good place to start? This list was a really good one, Andrea! Main Street I've never heard of! The cover makes me wonder if that's a book I'd love. Is it quaint and cozy?
If you do start with The Glass Bead Game beware the first chapter! Get through it, the real story begins after the long description of the "bead game." Main Street was going to win the Pulitzer but they gave it to Edith Wharton for the age of innocence instead (first woman to win it!) and then later Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize (for Main Street most likely). It's half cozy, half a bunch of parties and conversations among the wealthy and elite. It came out in 1920
@@InfiniteText I just read the age of innocence. I loved it for everything it had in it especially the pining and the historical detail! I now know what a Carcel lamp looks like and a Jacqueminot rose! Never know when you might need to know these things.