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Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
BINGE! is a series about authors whose works are an automatic buy for me. Alistair MacLean wrote action, adventure, spy thrillers with a WWII / Cold War backdrop. Timestamp:
0:00 BINGE!
0:29 Alistair MacLean
1:48 Golden Rendezvous
3:46 Guns of Navarone
4:52 The Way to Dusty Death
5:34 Ice Station Zebra
7:54 Fear is the Key
GOODREADS
goodreads.com/author/show/26970.Alistair_MacLean
BOOKS ADAPTED TO FILM: A Playlist
youtube.com/watch?v=whldChqCsYk&list=PLtLQgGRM7trxVbCNlXDU6uM1hAZ5WYewF
SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
GET TO KNOW ME: youtube.com/watch?v=LJUsw458TTc&list=PLtLQgGRM7trx8dsmgCHAqHYW6pC9thZ6t
SOCIAL:
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Twitter: twitter.com/amritaIQ
BINGE! is a series about authors whose works are an automatic buy for me. Alistair MacLean wrote action, adventure, spy thrillers with a WWII / Cold War backdrop. Timestamp:
0:00 BINGE!
0:29 Alistair MacLean
1:48 Golden Rendezvous
3:46 Guns of Navarone
4:52 The Way to Dusty Death
5:34 Ice Station Zebra
7:54 Fear is the Key
GOODREADS
goodreads.com/author/show/26970.Alistair_MacLean
BOOKS ADAPTED TO FILM: A Playlist
youtube.com/watch?v=whldChqCsYk&list=PLtLQgGRM7trxVbCNlXDU6uM1hAZ5WYewF
SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
GET TO KNOW ME: youtube.com/watch?v=LJUsw458TTc&list=PLtLQgGRM7trx8dsmgCHAqHYW6pC9thZ6t
SOCIAL:
Instagram: instagram.com/amrita_by_the_book
Twitter: twitter.com/amritaIQ
![BINGE! Ep.1: Alistair MacLean [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CjXFJwRBrMI/mqdefault.jpg "BINGE! Ep.1: Alistair MacLean [cc]
BINGE! is a series about authors whose works are an automatic buy for me. Alistair MacLean wrote action, adventure, spy thrillers with a WWII / Cold War backdrop. Timestamp:
0:00 BINGE!
0:29 Alistair MacLean
1:48 Golden Rendezvous
3:46 Guns of Navarone
4:52 The Way to Dusty Death
5:34 Ice Station Zebra
7:54 Fear is the Key
GOODREADS
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26970.Alistair_MacLean
BOOKS ADAPTED TO FILM: A Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whldChqCsYk&list=PLtLQgGRM7trxVbCNlXDU6uM1hAZ5WYewF
SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
GET TO KNOW ME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUsw458TTc&list=PLtLQgGRM7trx8dsmgCHAqHYW6pC9thZ6t
SOCIAL:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amrita_by_the_book/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amritaIQ")
![Why I Love Gone with the Wind... and It Sucks [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DjjLA0VT6hI/mqdefault.jpg "Why I Love Gone with the Wind... and It Sucks [cc]
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is an exceptionally well-written book, which makes it all the more problematic.
YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS feat. Hattie McDaniel (the first black performers to win an Oscar... for playing Mammy in the movie): http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/tag/Hattie+McDaniel
GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18405.Gone_with_the_Wind
SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
GET TO KNOW ME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUsw458TTc&list=PLtLQgGRM7trx8dsmgCHAqHYW6pC9thZ6t
SOCIAL:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amrita_by_the_book/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amritaIQ
KHANDAAN: A BOLLYWOOD PODCAST: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6noAvuRo-H6YzQ-tJj4Ew")
![Jamie from Outlander is the King of all Historical Himbos: Bad News Lovers Ep. 6 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/F7PfIrss3RM/mqdefault.jpg "Jamie from Outlander is the King of all Historical Himbos: Bad News Lovers Ep. 6 [CC]
TW: Rape and assault. Jamie Fraser from Outlander was a tough but necessary choice because hoo boy! talk about a Bad Lover (except he might be great at the actual act, oops).
SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
GET TO KNOW ME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUsw458TTc&list=PLtLQgGRM7trx8dsmgCHAqHYW6pC9thZ6t
SOCIAL:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amrita_by_the_book/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amritaIQ
KHANDAAN, A BOLLYWOOD PODCAST: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-khandaan-podcast
#BadNewsLovers #outlander #JamieFraser")
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A reading habits book tag: why and what do I re-read? Im not tagging anyone in particular so feel free to tag yourselves.
ORIGINAL TAG VIDEOS:
Just Juan Reader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCKG3v_5FM
Scallydandling About the Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4H9iVwFKk
TAG QUESTIONS: (these are a mashup of the two tag videos)
1. Where do you sit on the rereading scale from almost never to all the time?
2. Has that changed over your reading life?
3. When do you reread? Maybe immediately after finishing a book or not till years later? Or when the mood strikes?
4. Why do you reread books?
5. How do you reread? Faster, slower, just the best bits?
6. Who or what do you reread, more specifically? Which authors or genres or individual books?
7. Is there a book that you found better when you reread it?
8. A book that you’d like even more upon a second reading/A book that will benefit from a second reading.
9. And one that was worse?
10. A book you want to reread because you didn’t understand it the first time.
11. A book from your childhood that you want to reread.
12. A book you want to ReRead because you read it a long time ago.
13. Which one book have you reread most times? / A book you will read for the rest of your life.
GOODREADS:
The Grand Sophy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261689.The_Grand_Sophy
The Talisman Ring: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32108.The_Talisman_Ring
Witchmark: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36187110-witchmark
Pioneer, Go Home!: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2591577-pioneer-go-home
The Wheel of Time: https://www.goodreads.com/series/41526-the-wheel-of-time
SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
GET TO KNOW ME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUsw458TTc&list=PLtLQgGRM7trx8dsmgCHAqHYW6pC9thZ6t
SOCIAL:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amrita_by_the_book/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amritaIQ
KHANDAAN, A BOLLYWOOD PODCAST: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-khandaan-podcast
#booktag #booktagtuesday")
![Late Victorian Holocausts, Churchills Secret War & Others: What to Read in Quarantine Ep 9 [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HTY9zEYuBmU/mqdefault.jpg "Late Victorian Holocausts, Churchills Secret War & Others: What to Read in Quarantine Ep 9 [cc]
Time for some nonfiction! This was intended to be my first nonfiction list before the Black Lives Matter protest changed things a little and I thought Id offer you a few books on #Colonialism, something that affects our lives to this day without most of us being aware of it. The choices here range from deeply academic to quick, enraging weekend reads:
0:00 No, Theres No Upside to Colonialism, Dont @ Me
1:23 Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nīno Famines and the Making of the Third World
5:37 Empire of Cotton: A Global History
7:53 Churchills Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
10:01 A Small Place
but first -
FIGHT HUNGER, DONATE:
Cyclone Amphan Relief for the Sunderbans: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-sgea-2?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=fundraisers-title
Cyclone Amphan Relief for Bengal: https://www.ketto.org/fundraiser/rebuild-bengal?payment=form
No Kid Hungry: https://www.nokidhungry.org/
The Hunger Project: https://www.thp.org/
Feeding America: https://www.feedingamerica.org/
FURTHER READING:
LATE VICTORIAN HOLOCAUSTS by Mike Davis
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7859.Late_Victorian_Holocausts
Review by Amartya Sen in the NYT: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/18/reviews/010218.18senlt.html
Chapter One: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/davis-victorian.html
EMPIRE OF COTTON by Sven Beckert
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20758057-empire-of-cotton
Article in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/empire-of-cotton/383660/
CHURCHILLS SECRET WAR by Madhusree Mukerjee
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890989-churchill-s-secret-war
A SMALL PLACE by Jamaica Kincaid
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69711.A_Small_Place")
