Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Rick is spinning throughout the year, so why not come up with 20 books to play along and see what the wheel will choose for you?
Rick MacDonnell's Booktube Spin #2 - THE RESULT video:
youtu.be/KeqrH9FFtBM
Rick MacDonnell's announcement video for the Booktube Spin:
youtu.be/kGujr-dBMVw
0. Introduction - 0:00
1. My 20 Books - 1:38
2. THE RESULT REACTION - 3:16
3. The Book I'm reading for May-June - 3:50
4. Go Visit Rick! - 4:58
My List of 20 Books
1. Stoner - John Williams
2. The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson
3. The Pagan Rabbi - Cynthia Ozik
4. Plainsong - Kent Haruf
5. Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
6. A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon - Anthony Marra
7. Tirza - Arnon Grunberg
8. The Rotter's Club - Jonathan Coe
9. The Loser - Thomas Bernhard
10. The Island of Doctor Death & Other Stories & Other Stories - Gene Wolfe
11. HMS Surprise - Patrick O'Brian
12. A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews
13. The Uller Uprising - H. Beam Piper
14. Cassandra - Christa Wolfe
15. The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
16. The Phantom Rickshaw - Rudyard Kipling
17. The Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer
18. Inferno - Eileen Myles
19. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
20. Arturo's Island - Elsa Morante
Books Mentioned
Stoner
by John Williams
1965
From the blurb on Goodreads :
"William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude."
Rick MacDonnell's WONDERFUL '13 Thoughts About Stoner by John Williams' video:
youtu.be/p4cQ9kqH4eQ
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
1605, 1615
translator: Edith Grossman (2005)
(Video 399)
Rick is spinning throughout the year, so why not come up with 20 books to play along and see what the wheel will choose for you?
Rick MacDonnell's Booktube Spin #2 - THE RESULT video:
youtu.be/KeqrH9FFtBM
Rick MacDonnell's announcement video for the Booktube Spin:
youtu.be/kGujr-dBMVw
0. Introduction - 0:00
1. My 20 Books - 1:38
2. THE RESULT REACTION - 3:16
3. The Book I'm reading for May-June - 3:50
4. Go Visit Rick! - 4:58
My List of 20 Books
1. Stoner - John Williams
2. The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson
3. The Pagan Rabbi - Cynthia Ozik
4. Plainsong - Kent Haruf
5. Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
6. A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon - Anthony Marra
7. Tirza - Arnon Grunberg
8. The Rotter's Club - Jonathan Coe
9. The Loser - Thomas Bernhard
10. The Island of Doctor Death & Other Stories & Other Stories - Gene Wolfe
11. HMS Surprise - Patrick O'Brian
12. A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews
13. The Uller Uprising - H. Beam Piper
14. Cassandra - Christa Wolfe
15. The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
16. The Phantom Rickshaw - Rudyard Kipling
17. The Armies of the Night - Norman Mailer
18. Inferno - Eileen Myles
19. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
20. Arturo's Island - Elsa Morante
Books Mentioned
Stoner
by John Williams
1965
From the blurb on Goodreads :
"William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude."
Rick MacDonnell's WONDERFUL '13 Thoughts About Stoner by John Williams' video:
youtu.be/p4cQ9kqH4eQ
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
1605, 1615
translator: Edith Grossman (2005)
(Video 399)
![A Royal Experiment [The Strangest Family] | Janice Hadlow | Non-Fiction Review](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dGH8i91snDc/mqdefault.jpg "A Royal Experiment [The Strangest Family] | Janice Hadlow | Non-Fiction Review
A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of George III
Janice Hadlow
2014
704 pages
aka
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians
(a much better subtitle!)
I cant find a specific video by Shawn talking about The Strangest Family. He mostly updated his viewers on the book in a series of Friday Reads about a year or maybe two ago. I suggest going back and watching all his videos just to be safe! He is a tremendous booktuber.
@shawnbreathesbooks
Ive closed my comments going forward because while I enjoy making videos, I find it difficult to communicate by text. This isnt a criticism of the many warm and welcoming interactions Ive had with people on BookTube (this tiny corner of YouTube). I find social interactions very taxing, especially the tricky back and forth via text. Sorry if you wanted to leave a comment, but this is how I get to be on social media (by not being particularly social).
(Video 487)")
