Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (audiobook)

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  • @HannahsBooks
    @HannahsBooks  Місяць тому +1

    Check out my other story performances: ua-cam.com/play/PLqkLQE2gbz-5a2ckqoeflFv4YR8FBe5-3.html&si=yIKQWQE9cZ0RKSYE

  • @erikasmith946
    @erikasmith946 Рік тому +16

    What a wonderful reading of this classic short story. It felt like I was sitting with an aunt or old friend telling me a story at the kitchen table. Such ease yet such clarity.❤️

  • @nicholasbrandinelli5538
    @nicholasbrandinelli5538 Місяць тому +2

    I have a tough time following words on paper and having you play in the background has been very helpful, Thank you so much for this.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  Місяць тому

      @@nicholasbrandinelli5538 I’m so glad it has been helpful!

  • @geraldstinson881
    @geraldstinson881 3 роки тому +23

    I was already a fan of Flannery O’Connor’s stories. Now, suddenly, I’m also a big fan of Hannah‘s Books. Terrific job of reading!

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому

      Thank you so much! What a wonderful comment!

    • @geraldstinson881
      @geraldstinson881 3 роки тому +1

      @@HannahsBooks Among my faves: Good Man, Life You Save, Good Country, Displaced Person, Artificial N, Revelation, and . . . Parker's Back! (That one is not among the standard titles.)
      I will definitely click on your reading of other titles!

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому +1

      @@geraldstinson881 I have filmed Good Man-and have been thinking about recording GCP and Revelation. Another one I really enjoyed filming was Eudora Welty’s Why I Live at the PO. Most of my channel is made up of chitchat about reading, but I do have a playlist of the story performances. I will look it up for you…

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому

      @@geraldstinson881 ua-cam.com/play/PLqkLQE2gbz-5a2ckqoeflFv4YR8FBe5-3.html is the playlist.

  • @laurenw.8178
    @laurenw.8178 8 місяців тому +4

    Had to read this story for my Short Story college class, and listening to your voice while reading made it so much more engaging. Thank you! ❤

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  8 місяців тому

      Thank you so much! I hope you will have a good classroom conversation!

  • @seriela
    @seriela 3 роки тому +13

    Loved it. I would seek your audiobook narrations, hands down.

  • @moon_yeka
    @moon_yeka Рік тому +4

    Fantastic reading. I really appreciate you putting this up here. I hope you have more O'Connor stories, and I look forward to checking out your other videos.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  Рік тому

      Thank you! I do have another O’Connor story up (A Good Man is Hard to Find) and am going to be filming both a Faulkner story (A Rose for Emily) and another O’C story (Good Country People) during August , I think.

  • @BookishTexan
    @BookishTexan 3 роки тому +9

    So great! Perfect for my morning walk.
    O’Conner has a gift for creating realistic and yet grotesque scenes and for writing stories in which you can never settle on a character worth liking. It is unsettling and that unease extends, for me, to the author.
    Brilliant reading!

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому +1

      Brian, you have pegged it. Both characters are worth liking in a few ways, and both are absolutely horrid in other ways. I have both adored and felt uneasy about F'OC since reading her letters right after college. Her complicated racial statements, her very judgemental religious beliefs, etc.--balanced with her sense of humor and her ability to observe so closely... Hope you are getting sun and lovely temperatures for your walks. It looks like we will be, starting today!

    • @BookishTexan
      @BookishTexan 3 роки тому

      @@HannahsBooks I think if I could just make up my mind about O'Conner, I could go on and enjoy her work with a settled mind as I have with Faulkner. I'm not looking to "cancel" her. She was a great writer and her stories are so powerful.
      Weather here has been great ever since the freeze.

  • @marianryan2991
    @marianryan2991 3 роки тому +3

    That was a hell of a reading of possibly my favorite short story. Thank you.

  • @mariongillon6208
    @mariongillon6208 3 місяці тому +1

    I must reiterate what a great reader you are. The constant eye contact makes it so good, especially during the really uncomfortable parts.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 місяці тому

      You are so kind! Thank you very much for this lovely comment!

  • @mariongillon6208
    @mariongillon6208 3 місяці тому +1

    I have never read Flannery O’Connor before I heard you read A Good Man Is Hard To Find. You are such a good reader, especially that you do it face to face. I think you are the only one who does this. It’s like your mum is reading you a bedtime story, albeit a depressing one.
    This particular story is a perfect depiction of how my son feels about me; however, I am not like his mother. I am the one who is not opinionated, who did not embarrass him, who was never prejudiced and never taught him to think of anyone as less than himself. Yet, he always felt about me, as this son feels about his mother. I haven’t spoken to him now for six years. Life is very unfair and hardly ever like stories.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 місяці тому

      I am so very sorry to hear that, Marion. What a hard situation that must be for you…

  • @kamicastillo1451
    @kamicastillo1451 Рік тому +1

    Another great narration Hannah! I really want to watch your other Stories.

  • @MarieMontgomery-si8lj
    @MarieMontgomery-si8lj 3 місяці тому +2

    Excellent reading. You do miss Flannery proud. Thank you Hannah.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 місяці тому

      Thank you so much, Marie! That is so kind of you!

  • @thefont4345
    @thefont4345 3 роки тому +3

    I my goodness, I was so moved by the story, so complex and so sad. Thank you for reading it so beautifully ❤️

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you. That sadness and bitterness and hope at the same time are definitely things that draw me to Flannery O’Connor.

    • @kaal2820
      @kaal2820 Рік тому

      I cried.

  • @am2pm.705
    @am2pm.705 Рік тому +2

    OH MY GOSH…
    IJUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL
    🎉🎉I have won the life lottery🎉🎉
    Thank you

  • @barbaralies
    @barbaralies 3 роки тому +1

    One of my favorite short stories. I plan to read it to my grandsons this week. Thanks for reading...nice job.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому

      Thank you so much! I especially love the idea that you're going to read to your grandsons! Another one of my favorite O'Connor stories (which I might eventually try to record) is "Good Country People." I read it to a bunch of highschoolers in a class once--and they were rolling on the floor in laughter!

  • @sundancefriend327
    @sundancefriend327 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for reading this story. Great job.

  • @jimsbooksreadingandstuff
    @jimsbooksreadingandstuff 6 місяців тому +2

    I'm reading Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories for the Georgian Readathon, this was the first story in the collection. The same purple hat worn by the mother and the black woman was a surprise.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  6 місяців тому +1

      Yes indeed! (Did you notice my purple and green head wrap?)

    • @jimsbooksreadingandstuff
      @jimsbooksreadingandstuff 6 місяців тому +1

      @@HannahsBooks Indeed, you could have added a couple of peacock feathers for real Flannery O'Connor effect. You have a great reading voice.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  6 місяців тому +1

      @@jimsbooksreadingandstuff Thank you so much!

  • @thomast378
    @thomast378 Рік тому +1

    What an incredible narration! Thank you, Mrs.Hannah! Greetings from Greece!

  • @barbaradietz919
    @barbaradietz919 Рік тому +2

    Marvelous! Look forward to listening to your other recordings… great literature is a balm to my soul and psyche🙏👍✨

  • @hartereads
    @hartereads 3 роки тому +1

    Wonderful reading, Hannah. Love your new background also!

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому

      Thank you! This is where I try to film the short story performances--just so my booktube friends will know this is a different kind of thing.

  • @shakespearaamina9117
    @shakespearaamina9117 2 роки тому +1

    This is a great read!
    Thank you!

  • @jkatew
    @jkatew 3 роки тому +1

    Awesome and brilliant reading Hannah!
    . 🌸🙌🏼🌸

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you! It is a powerful story, although a difficult one to grapple with.

  • @szabolcsmezei4088
    @szabolcsmezei4088 Рік тому +1

    Great reading, thank you.

  • @zahnayshacleaton8192
    @zahnayshacleaton8192 Рік тому +1

    Thank You!

  • @TheCodeXCantina
    @TheCodeXCantina 3 роки тому +2

    Wonderful performance, Hannah!

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому

      Thank you so much for motivating me to prepare this one!

  • @s.williamc.
    @s.williamc. 4 місяці тому +1

    Wow, what a stunning stiory. Thank you very much!

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  4 місяці тому

      Thank you! O’Connor is just amazing. If you don’t know her “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” give it a try. It is widely anthologized, and if you want to listen, I read it on this channel.

  • @JoshsBookishVoyage
    @JoshsBookishVoyage 3 роки тому +3

    That was amazing, both the story and your narration. How did you do it so smoothly with only one take?
    I'll have to go back and check the other audiobook posts I've missed from you.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому +1

      Oh gracious. Thank you so much for your compliments-but there are indeed lots of cuts where I lost what I was saying or had a tech issue or whatever. I am thrilled that the cuts were not overwhelming for you. Of my other videos like this, my favorite is Welty’s Why I Live at the P.O. I am hoping to make a recording of Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily sometime soon. While I initially wanted to record a particular Alice Walker short story or a Virginia Woolf non-fiction piece, talking like a white southerner has kept me a bit limited...

    • @JoshsBookishVoyage
      @JoshsBookishVoyage 3 роки тому +1

      @@HannahsBooks ok I didn't realize there were cute 😅 still flows really well

  • @LolitaStClair
    @LolitaStClair 2 роки тому +1

    Hello I enjoyed this story.

  • @The1christy
    @The1christy 3 роки тому +1

    Riveted! Thank you!

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you so much, Christy! Flannery O'Connor is such an interesting author--one who I've been utterly intrigued by for a very long time.

    • @The1christy
      @The1christy 3 роки тому +1

      @@HannahsBooks I’m inspired to pick up one of her books! Any particular one I should begin first?

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому +1

      @@The1christy I would vote for her Complete Stories. Start with A Good Man is Hard to Find, Good Country People, and Revelation, maybe? And please let me know what you think if you do try them out!

    • @The1christy
      @The1christy 3 роки тому +1

      @@HannahsBooks Great...thanks! I definitely will. Read on. ☺️

  • @WhatsWrongWithTheStreet
    @WhatsWrongWithTheStreet Рік тому +1

    Excellent reading of this story. How do you do deal with copyright issue? I want to do this on UA-cam or create a podcast without profit or intent to monetize. I just want to do it for art of it. Please help me?

  • @bearfootbriar7317
    @bearfootbriar7317 3 роки тому +1

    You do a beautiful job.

  • @brucemajors7525
    @brucemajors7525 5 місяців тому +2

    If Flannery O'Connor were alive and writing today (she'd be 99), instead of setting her stories about mentally ill, conflicted, poor white trash, alcoholics, etc. in the rural south, would they instead be set in an urban public library?

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  5 місяців тому +1

      I can imagine that she might-still trying to find those moments of revelation she wrote about. Interesting idea.

    • @brucemajors7525
      @brucemajors7525 5 місяців тому +2

      @@HannahsBooks I spent the day with them today, including a young man who talked to himself about AI as if he were in a Zoom meeting, but sans air pods or headphones, and I was trying to imagine how she would find the moment of grace in it. I could only think of the Lily Tomlin joke about how NYC should pair all the people who talk to themselves up so it would look like they were having a conversation.

  • @anyagunther1233
    @anyagunther1233 3 роки тому +2

    do you memorise all these stories?

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому +5

      I have the notes in front of me to remind me where I am in a story, but yes-I practice them until the words are really under my tongue. It is amazing to me how much the process of learning a story helps me understand so much of what an author is doing!

  • @ofthegarden
    @ofthegarden 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you!

  • @bighardbooks770
    @bighardbooks770 3 роки тому +1

    Love it 👏🤗✊

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you so much! O'Connor is such a fabulous writer. She has meant a lot to me for a very long time.

  • @ty9884
    @ty9884 7 місяців тому +1

    Perfect voice.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  7 місяців тому

      Thank you very much!

    • @ty9884
      @ty9884 7 місяців тому +1

      @@HannahsBooks I'm a fan and a new subscriber. I'm a huge Flannery fan, and you nailed the telling of that story.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  7 місяців тому

      @@ty9884 She’s an amazing writer. Thank you for the follow-but I will warn you that most of the time I am just chatting about the books I’ve read. (I am thinking of reading another O’Connor at the end of this month. It has been a while!)

  • @AlmostMonumental27
    @AlmostMonumental27 Рік тому +1

    "The Y reducing class!" Only Miss O'Connor would put it that way. I'm as happy as if I too were doing something for the hat!

    • @AlmostMonumental27
      @AlmostMonumental27 Рік тому +1

      PS: I believe Julian had, what therapists would now call, "Unresolved Issues." Don't you think, Miss Hannah? (And with a relic of a mother like that, it's no wonder.)
      But -- oh my! He had Mother Issues!
      "Darling! Sweetheart, Wait!!"
      Gasp! «Romantic Terms if Endearment! Don't all we Southern Sons! Our unresolved Guilt and Sorrow are un-abating.

    • @AlmostMonumental27
      @AlmostMonumental27 Рік тому +1

      The God-Highs," perhaps Miss O'Connor was inferring, as, it is certain, they were "Good Christian People." Wasn't everybody back then? Symbology as encased in names was a favorite of my Southern Lit professor's, Dr. O.B. Emerson's, at University. Another was "Possessive Before A Gerund," as preached by my high school English teacher, Aunt Katharine, my grandfather's younger sister. (Whom he educated, my catty, resentful mother would have been quick to have pointed out! Ah, a Southern Lit character of her very own! And speaking of therapy, it took YEAHS to break free! Ha.)

    • @AlmostMonumental27
      @AlmostMonumental27 Рік тому +1

      "...looked like a cushion with its stuffing out." Oh, my, Miss O'Connor. You made us all proud to be still-Southern Americans.

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  Рік тому

      An Alabama boy! My father was a visiting professor there one semester in the 1980s-teaching Southern History-and they enjoyed some Faulkner conversations together!

  • @timothymontes2049
    @timothymontes2049 Рік тому +1

    Wonderful reading! Is this story a critique of self righteous wokeness?

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  Рік тому +2

      I’m sure FO’C would not have used those words-but yes, absolutely a critique of anything that didn’t stem from true compassion and love.

  • @jimnewcombe7584
    @jimnewcombe7584 Рік тому +1

    Converge with what though? As with the word "relevant", something can only be relevant *to* something. Nothing is intrinsically relevant. And "rises"?

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  Рік тому +2

      I don’t think O’Connor was giving an example here of convergence at all-but instead thinking about the idea put forth by theologian and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: "Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge."

    • @HannahsBooks
      @HannahsBooks  Рік тому +2

      And let me say more explicitly and simplistically that I interpret the two characters we should compare to be Julian and his mother. F’oC plays them off against each other and asks her readers to consider their competing goods and evils. She seems intent in many of her stories to knock self-satisfied characters into awareness of something more.