Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Sunday Reads, September 12, 2021
If you like intelligent, entertaining conversation please check out, “Chatting About Booktube with Matthew @MayberryBookclub” over at Ami’s channel:
youtu.be/bTiBb22QP8s
Books Mentioned:
The Moonshine War (1969) - Elmore Leonard
The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia (1991, 1996 revised) - Jean Barman
On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia (2020) - Jean Barman
The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age (2019) - Leo Damrosch
Gulliver’s Travels (1726) - Jonathan Swift
Actress (2020) - Anne Enright
Othello & The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Shaketember!
Othello conversation @OldBlue’sChapterandVerse:
youtu.be/g4Ma_epnYaI
The Tempest chat @RaineyDayReads:
youtu.be/WMLZbUagDh8
more to come in the following weeks from Lukas @ACruelReadersThesis and Steve Donoghue.
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I've turned off my comments (at least for a little while). The comments I've gotten in the past are great. I'm just neurotic guy and have been stressed over keeping up my end. If you want to hear more check out this video:
youtu.be/9lg2c0f-doo
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Sunday Reads, September 12, 2021
If you like intelligent, entertaining conversation please check out, “Chatting About Booktube with Matthew @MayberryBookclub” over at Ami’s channel:
youtu.be/bTiBb22QP8s
Books Mentioned:
The Moonshine War (1969) - Elmore Leonard
The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia (1991, 1996 revised) - Jean Barman
On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia (2020) - Jean Barman
The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age (2019) - Leo Damrosch
Gulliver’s Travels (1726) - Jonathan Swift
Actress (2020) - Anne Enright
Othello & The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Shaketember!
Othello conversation @OldBlue’sChapterandVerse:
youtu.be/g4Ma_epnYaI
The Tempest chat @RaineyDayReads:
youtu.be/WMLZbUagDh8
more to come in the following weeks from Lukas @ACruelReadersThesis and Steve Donoghue.
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I've turned off my comments (at least for a little while). The comments I've gotten in the past are great. I'm just neurotic guy and have been stressed over keeping up my end. If you want to hear more check out this video:
youtu.be/9lg2c0f-doo
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more waffling... and I didnt even get into feeling bad for publishing negative reviews, but at the same time needing to talk about books I didnt get along with.
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Steve Donoghues Video Response: Is WANTING a Writing Career Enough?
https://youtu.be/C3o7HLAHYvM
which responds to Cam Wolfs video is WANTING a writing career enough?? Discussion:
https://youtu.be/tEpyEaA77bo
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March of the Mammoths is a reading challenge hosted by Jason @Old Blues Chapter and Verse , Lukas @A Cruel Readers Thesis and Alex @bigalbooks. Read 800+ page books in the month, as many as you want! Or, like me and Jason, START reading a mammoth and finish later in the year.
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Book mentioned:
A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel
1992
872 pages
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
(The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
Marlon James
2019
640 pages
24hrs and some minutes long, with an amazing narrator, who sings the songs!
I have 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.
[I might also add that Im trying to disrupt the addictive/damaging feedback loop of positive/negative reinforcement that large social media companies building into their platforms.]
Sorry if you wanted to leave a comment, but this is how I get to be on social media (by not being particularly social).
Here is a video of me reporting on my six-month trial without comments if you REALLY want to hear more about it:
https://youtu.be/g6mr4pyQ0Gg
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