Merci beaucoup! Loved your choices, “Paradise Lost” was one of my set texts at “A” Levels, but only the first 2 books: have to finish that one day. I am also living proof you are not the last person to read Les Mis 😮
That volume of Wordsworth has clearly been very well loved! I haven’t read his preface, and didn’t realize its importance until this video. I also like that you mentioned Paradise Lost and 1984! I must have those opening verses by heart, and I have fond memories of reading 1984 right when COVID hit and school closed down. Thanks for tagging me, Pat! You are awesome.
Thank you, Josh. I can't bear to part with that Wordsworth volume, but it's really falling apart. I think it's taped back together with electrical tape! This was a very creative tag created by Gavin, and I really hope it is circulated widely. I'll look forward to your responses if you choose to do it!
Hi Pat! What a great tag this is and a great video! "For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" - I love that you discuss the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. I enjoyed Wordsworth in college and have been enjoying him even more now as an adult. Many of my well-read friends prefer the more "rock star" Romantic poets like Keats, Byron, and Blake, but I've always preferred Wordsworth as he is the quiet philosopher-poet who laid the foundation for Romanticism. I know you'll make it through Ulysses! I read Ulysses once for an Irish Literature course I took in grad school. Our professor gave us a guide that paralleled what was going on in Homer's Ulysses with what was going on in Joyce's, which really helped, otherwise I would have never gotten through it. I also love the way you talk about discovering a book that made you know that reading was going to be an important part of your life, as you do with Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Watching you is like revisiting my favorite English classes in high school and college - thank you for your thoughtful videos.
@@purplepumpkin6894 thank you for this lovely comment. I, too, love Wordsworth….I wrote my Master’s thesis on him. This is my third reading of Ulysses. It’s a bit of a slog this time, but we have a great group of six of us who are slogging along together! I’m sure the guide that your professor provided was essential. Believe me, I’m reading several guides alongside the text this time around too! Thank you for always saying such kind things. You made my day! 🥰
Fun tag! Thanks for tagging me 😊 See, this is why I have to go thrifting every once in a while to try and fill my collection with books I can use for tags 😂 I can think of one French book that I own. I know that’s just bonus points but still ^^ Good job with Ulysses! You’re almost there! 👏 👏
It's just written in a variety of different styles--no straightforward narrative, or very little anyway. Lots of stream of consciousness. You often don't really know who the minor characters are who are interacting with the two main characters. This week, we are reading just one chapter or episode, and it's 150 pages long, and every single character from the entire book appears in this chapter. Some of what Joyce is doing is fascinating. Some of it just feels very pretentious. I just feel much less patience with him at this point in my life. What I found fascinating and deeply poignant in my twenties is just feeling tedious now in my mid-sixties. Life is short. I have other things I want to be reading....
Thanks, Brian! You make me laugh. Now that I’ve read Les Mis, it’s just you and Gavin then, the last men standing! I thought this was a very creative tag. I hope you’ll do it too. 😊
Very fun tag! I really enjoyed your answers. Hearing about your struggle with Ulysses on your third read makes me not feel so bad about being intimidated by it 😅 And thanks so much for the tag! It’s a very interesting one!
Mention of The Sun Also Rises always reminds me of its wistful closing line, perhaps my favorite in all of literature. ‘Yes.’ I said. ‘Isn’t it pretty to think so?’
I have read almost no classics Pat, so you were not alone with some that you mentioned haha. However, glad you included something of Zola. He is one that I have read and think he is underrepresented somehow
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH YES!!! Absolutely!! That might also be the only way I actually read it! I may need to wait until August so I can finish Ulysses (I’m in the read-along which wraps up in July). I’m also co-hosting Rocket Summer in July. And there’s Jane Austen, too, though I’m only planning to read one novel for that. August looks a bit less packed right now. How does that sound?
Happy Sunday, Pat. When I too was 18 when I read my first Zola novel and it was Nana, about a Parisian prostitute, followed by Therese Raquin. Best first line, well it has to be from A Tale of Two Cities as read by Frasier to the barflies at Cheers, see link below:) ua-cam.com/video/qA9nRB_8aFw/v-deo.html
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt you know, I almost picked A Tale of Two Cities, but I never could have done justice to it. This was absolutely BRILLIANT! Thank you! 😂👍🏼🥰👏🏼
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Not even A Christmas Carol. I've read around him, -Hardy, Flaubert, Stendhal, Dumas, Hugo-likely because I've seen so many of his books adaptations into films and t.v. (one of my favorites is Rod Serlings A Carol for Another Christmas set in the Cold War with Sterling Hayden as Scrooge and Peter Sellers as a psychopath-it's all star cast) I haven't bothered. I know, it makes me a pariah on booktube:)
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt not a pariah at all. Lots of people don’t like Dickens. I guess I was just surprised that you hadn’t really encountered him anywhere along the way. I haven’t read all of Dickens-not even close-but I do like him, and I love a couple of his novels.
Thanks for tagging me! I posted it today as Gavin tagged me as well. Great minds think alike! 💛
@@booksimnotreading oh wonderful! I’ll check it out! 💚
I've always loved the Tour de France since the Greg Lamond days. Thanks for the tag! Fun.
I thought Gavin did a brilliant job of creating this one. Really fun!
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Yeah not far how he can speak better French than us Americans. 🤣
@@FacelessBookReviews Lol!! Really, I was embarrassed by my pronunciations! 😳
Merci beaucoup! Loved your choices, “Paradise Lost” was one of my set texts at “A” Levels, but only the first 2 books: have to finish that one day.
I am also living proof you are not the last person to read Les Mis 😮
@@GenreBooks23 ok, well, then you better get onto that reading of Les Mis, then! 😂 This is a brilliant tag, Gavin! Thank you!
Thank you, for tagging me.
You're welcome, Jess. This was a fun one.
Love this tag and your responses Pat. I’m going to tackle this one too. Great video 😊
Thanks, Debs. This one was a lot of fun. I'll look forward to your responses!
I could listen to you talking about books all day. Thank you 😊
@@corinnearmstrong4451 thank you for this lovely comment! 😊
That volume of Wordsworth has clearly been very well loved! I haven’t read his preface, and didn’t realize its importance until this video. I also like that you mentioned Paradise Lost and 1984! I must have those opening verses by heart, and I have fond memories of reading 1984 right when COVID hit and school closed down. Thanks for tagging me, Pat! You are awesome.
Thank you, Josh. I can't bear to part with that Wordsworth volume, but it's really falling apart. I think it's taped back together with electrical tape! This was a very creative tag created by Gavin, and I really hope it is circulated widely. I'll look forward to your responses if you choose to do it!
Love your answers. Thanks for tagging me. I will do this one soon
Hi Stuart. I’ll look forward to your video. This was a lovely one to do. 😊
Hi Pat! What a great tag this is and a great video!
"For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" - I love that you discuss the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. I enjoyed Wordsworth in college and have been enjoying him even more now as an adult. Many of my well-read friends prefer the more "rock star" Romantic poets like Keats, Byron, and Blake, but I've always preferred Wordsworth as he is the quiet philosopher-poet who laid the foundation for Romanticism.
I know you'll make it through Ulysses! I read Ulysses once for an Irish Literature course I took in grad school. Our professor gave us a guide that paralleled what was going on in Homer's Ulysses with what was going on in Joyce's, which really helped, otherwise I would have never gotten through it.
I also love the way you talk about discovering a book that made you know that reading was going to be an important part of your life, as you do with Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Watching you is like revisiting my favorite English classes in high school and college - thank you for your thoughtful videos.
@@purplepumpkin6894 thank you for this lovely comment. I, too, love Wordsworth….I wrote my Master’s thesis on him. This is my third reading of Ulysses. It’s a bit of a slog this time, but we have a great group of six of us who are slogging along together! I’m sure the guide that your professor provided was essential. Believe me, I’m reading several guides alongside the text this time around too! Thank you for always saying such kind things. You made my day! 🥰
Fun tag! Thanks for tagging me 😊 See, this is why I have to go thrifting every once in a while to try and fill my collection with books I can use for tags 😂 I can think of one French book that I own. I know that’s just bonus points but still ^^
Good job with Ulysses! You’re almost there! 👏 👏
Thanks, Ellen! Whatever justification works for you for thrifting is what you should use! 😂 Ulysses-what a slog this time around! 😳
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Haha that’s all I needed to hear! 😂 Only a little bit left to go, you’ve got this! 🚴
@ellenmadebookclub oh I’m going to make it, I guess. But I might wipe out on the side of the road in the process.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Oh no, I hope you’re joking! Or is it really that bad? What is difficult about it?
It's just written in a variety of different styles--no straightforward narrative, or very little anyway. Lots of stream of consciousness. You often don't really know who the minor characters are who are interacting with the two main characters. This week, we are reading just one chapter or episode, and it's 150 pages long, and every single character from the entire book appears in this chapter. Some of what Joyce is doing is fascinating. Some of it just feels very pretentious. I just feel much less patience with him at this point in my life. What I found fascinating and deeply poignant in my twenties is just feeling tedious now in my mid-sixties. Life is short. I have other things I want to be reading....
I love the Tour and your answers. Btw I have never read Les Mis and have no intention of doing so.🤓
Thanks, Brian! You make me laugh. Now that I’ve read Les Mis, it’s just you and Gavin then, the last men standing! I thought this was a very creative tag. I hope you’ll do it too. 😊
Very fun tag! I really enjoyed your answers. Hearing about your struggle with Ulysses on your third read makes me not feel so bad about being intimidated by it 😅
And thanks so much for the tag! It’s a very interesting one!
@@MyMessyBookshelf I thought it was a very creative tag!
Good tag. 🥖🍷
@@constancecampbell4610 this was really fun tag to do. Gavin created a great one here!
Thanks Pat!😊
@@LauraRodriguez-Peace thank you! Gavin made a great tag!
Great tag! 👏🏽
@@books_and_bocadillos a fun one, for sure! Gavin created a great tag!
Mention of The Sun Also Rises always reminds me of its wistful closing line, perhaps my favorite in all of literature. ‘Yes.’ I said. ‘Isn’t it pretty to think so?’
@@patriciah8579 yes! ❤️
I have read almost no classics Pat, so you were not alone with some that you mentioned haha. However, glad you included something of Zola. He is one that I have read and think he is underrepresented somehow
@@TriumphalReads yes, you are right, Justin. I was thinking I should revisit him.
By any chance would you want to team up for a buddy read for The Stand? You are not the only person who hasn’t read it yet! 😂
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH YES!!! Absolutely!! That might also be the only way I actually read it! I may need to wait until August so I can finish Ulysses (I’m in the read-along which wraps up in July). I’m also co-hosting Rocket Summer in July. And there’s Jane Austen, too, though I’m only planning to read one novel for that. August looks a bit less packed right now. How does that sound?
@@BookChatWithPat8668 that’s perfect!!! 😍
Hooray! Discussion to be continued!
Happy Sunday, Pat. When I too was 18 when I read my first Zola novel and it was Nana, about a Parisian prostitute, followed by Therese Raquin. Best first line, well it has to be from A Tale of Two Cities as read by Frasier to the barflies at Cheers, see link below:)
ua-cam.com/video/qA9nRB_8aFw/v-deo.html
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt you know, I almost picked A Tale of Two Cities, but I never could have done justice to it. This was absolutely BRILLIANT! Thank you! 😂👍🏼🥰👏🏼
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Not even Frasier's passionate reading and liberties managed to convince me to read Dickens, though:)
@LibroParadiso-ep4zt Really? Not even A Tale of Two Cities?
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Not even A Christmas Carol. I've read around him, -Hardy, Flaubert, Stendhal, Dumas, Hugo-likely because I've seen so many of his books adaptations into films and t.v. (one of my favorites is Rod Serlings A Carol for Another Christmas set in the Cold War with Sterling Hayden as Scrooge and Peter Sellers as a psychopath-it's all star cast) I haven't bothered. I know, it makes me a pariah on booktube:)
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt not a pariah at all. Lots of people don’t like Dickens. I guess I was just surprised that you hadn’t really encountered him anywhere along the way. I haven’t read all of Dickens-not even close-but I do like him, and I love a couple of his novels.