The Evolution of a Reader Tag
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- I was tagged by Brian at Bookish:
• The Evolution of the R...
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Video: • The Evolution of a Rea...
Prompts:
1) What you read: how has your taste in books evolved?
2) How you read: has the format of your reading changed much?
3) How much you read: do you read more/less than previously? When do you read? Has how often you read changed?
4) How has Booktube changed you as a reader?
5) Tag some people!
Cliff at Better than Food Book Reviews:
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Channels tagged:
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Book Rising with Bart:
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I don't think I would have read Proust if it hadn't been for booktube. I love the variety on these channels. Thanks for your thoughts, it was really interesting.
You're so welcome!
This is a fun tag! I actually hated reading in elementary school, to the point where reading R.L. Stein was asking too much of me. Fast forward to my Booktube days where I'm now actively searching for difficult books to read like Ulysses and The Recognitions. Awesome video!
Thank you! I love the challenge of reading the tough stuff.
Glad you did the tag.
I never thought of romance as a way to get into the psychology of characters, but that makes sense. I’ve really only read a few romance novels and I can see your point and the limits you describe.
Love LibriVox
Thank you tagging me. 😊
Really interesting that your reading tastes have changed as much as they have. Great video! And thanks for tagging me!
Thank you! I know you don't really do tags much anymore so no worries if you don't do this one.
Well, to read the likes of Melville and McCarthy, I think it helps to be 41 or so. My first reading of Moby Dick in my twenties doesn’t resemble my most recent (10th) reading at all. Thanks for another clear, honest, welcoming video.
Oh yeah, the perceptions change so dramatically as you get older. You’ve read Moby Dick 10 times? Wow! 👏👊 Thank you for watching and for being a part of the discussions I enjoy here. 😊
I just really enjoy talking to people about books, and youtube reviews and discussions are a lovely supplement to it, although in the end for me nothing really compares to personal conversation.
Still, in exchange you get access to such a broad array of perspectives. We are beyond fortunate to be alive in such a time.
I agree. I never realizes in my younger years how much enjoyment one can get out of talking and listening to others talk about the book one reads. I feel like it is exactly this that I would thirst for in pursuing an English literature/literature degree. But I can get that here with all you fine folks and keep my time and money in my own pocket. It’s a beautiful thing. Thank you for being here for this.
Sad to hear how you did not have access to good book lists during your 20s. A good reading suggestion site I have encountered is fiction beast. He has long lists of foreign writers I've never heard of. Got me to read Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman and Yu Hua's The Seventh Day, To Live, and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant. You might have to visit Japan to get how important convenience stores are and how realistic Murata's description of Japan really is but the book is very short as are the novels by Hua.
Hello! I have been to Japan. I went while I was in high school for the Yamate exchange program. It is why I had such a great love for Manga when I was a teenager and maybe why I love Ishiguro and Memoirs of a Geisha as much as I do. My 20s were spent intrenched in very prescriptive and commercial fiction. But that’s ok. It was the gateway to the now. Thank you for the recommendation and for watching.
Librivox rox! There's also "Loud Lit". That one has the very best version of "Heart of Darkness" which if you haven't read...
I hadn’t heard of “Loud Lit”. I’ll have to check them out. Thank you for letting me know. Hahahaaa! And then he squeaks in another book recommendation. I love it!
May I also call out Audiobooks Unleashed, their recording of Moby Dick is absolutely 💯 , and I don't know who did it, they have a few others. Thanks for your autobiography as a reader. I. Too love what has evolved on UA-cam, years ago I read Life of Pi, and had Noo One to talk to. I found a small chat group on the internet that had been and gone, but had my experience expanded through them.
Being able to talk about books does really expand the experience. Reading reviews helps too. It makes you see things you never noticed and realize things neither the review or yourself caught because it gets you thinking in new ways.
Hey, thanks so much for the tag! 😃 Booktube has definitely changed my reading, that's for sure. And I think I kinda had a similar arc as you in how my reading developed from my younger years to now. And I loved how you were all like, "This is a book that I own." when you held up Twilight. 🤣 Interesting tag; well done!
Lol! You caught that, eh? But you know, I haven’t gotten rid of twilight yet and your comment got me kinda thinking about why I hadn’t yet. And you know, I think it’s because that whole series is exactly the romantic-fever-dream that the female Madame Bovary’s of the world desire. And it seems innocuous at a surface level but it is deeply deleterious. There is nothing wrong with reading Twilight, but if all one consumes are of the same ilk as it, there becomes the problem we see in Madame Bovary. 🤔 I had been percolating an idea for a video comparison of the female/male differences in perusing Romanticism as seen in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary, but maybe Twilight has a place in that video too. 🤔 Thank you for watching. I’d love to hear about your own reading evolution. 😊
Aurel Stein the archeologist and explorer?
Oh gosh no. I meant R. L. Stein the author of the Goosebumps series for kids. I don't know that I'll ever be well read enough to have read Aurel Stein. 😂
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