Must Read MoreLinks to other great videos below! This is my first tag video, so I'll apologize up front for the rambling delivery, and for forgetting to tag people at the end.
I try to do all my videos without notes, so if my wording is a little rambling or unclear, I apologize. I've inserted text into the video to clarify my statements, but please feel free to leave comments or ask questions.
I forgot to say who I was tagging in the video so I'm adding the tags here. If you've never seen me before, hello, and welcome. I have very much enjoyed your videos and am glad to join you here on Booktube. I hope you'll do this tag, it was an eye opener for me about books I haven't looked at in some time. I'd love to hear your answers to this one, I've left the list of prompts below: @saintdonoghue @BookChatWithPat8668 @BookTimewithElvis @BookishTexan @JamesRuchala @bighardbooks770 @anotherbibliophilereads @ThatReadingGuy28 And anyone else who's reading this, too.
Link to @michaelk.vaughan8617 's video about Problematic Authors, in my opinion one of the best videos on Booktube:
The Beauty in Books TagMust Read More2024-08-26 | Links to other great videos below! This is my first tag video, so I'll apologize up front for the rambling delivery, and for forgetting to tag people at the end.
I try to do all my videos without notes, so if my wording is a little rambling or unclear, I apologize. I've inserted text into the video to clarify my statements, but please feel free to leave comments or ask questions.
I forgot to say who I was tagging in the video so I'm adding the tags here. If you've never seen me before, hello, and welcome. I have very much enjoyed your videos and am glad to join you here on Booktube. I hope you'll do this tag, it was an eye opener for me about books I haven't looked at in some time. I'd love to hear your answers to this one, I've left the list of prompts below: @saintdonoghue @BookChatWithPat8668 @BookTimewithElvis @BookishTexan @JamesRuchala @bighardbooks770 @anotherbibliophilereads @ThatReadingGuy28 And anyone else who's reading this, too.
Link to @michaelk.vaughan8617 's video about Problematic Authors, in my opinion one of the best videos on Booktube:
1. Beauty In Concept - The Millennial Project - Marshall T. Savage, Intro. by Arthur C. Clarke
2. Beauty In Opening Lines -Goodbye, Darkness - William Manchester
3. Beauty in Character - The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone 1932 - 1940 - William Manchester
4. Beauty Amidst Pain - 102 Minutes - Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
5. Beauty in Incompleteness - The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
6. Beauty in Place - The Willows - Algernon Blackwood (From NYRB's The Colour Out of Space)
7. Beauty in Time - To Serve Them All My Day's - R.F. Delderfield
8. Beauty in Catharsis - All the King's Men - Robert Penn WarrenBookshelf Tour Pt.5: More Fiction! (Books Ive Read)Must Read More2024-10-18 | Welcome to the fifth part of my bookshelf tour. I hope you enjoy it, and please feel free to leave comments and ask questions - one of the reasons I'm here is to be part of the discussion. Thanks for watching, and I hope you'll join me for part six!
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Concrete Island - J.G. Ballard
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
Graphic novels of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad and The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Night Without End and H.M.S. Ulysses - Alistair MacLean
Killer Ground and The Pride and the Anguish - Douglas Reeman
Company K - William March
All Quiet On the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (Also, The Black Obelisk, The Night in Lisbon, and Arch of Triumph)
Fear - Gabriel Chevallier
Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton (also, Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain)
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
The Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (by the way, F. Marion Crawford did write The Upper Berth)The Rock On, Rap Songs Book Tag!Must Read More2024-10-15 | The Rock On Rap Songs Book Tag was created by @NicolesBookishNook and I was tagged by @JamesRuchala
I tag: @aaronfacer @book-ramble @apoetreadstowrite @ThatReadingGuy28 @AaronReadABook @arockinsamsara @saintdonoghue
The prompts are:
1. It's a Hard Knock Life by Jay Z - A fiction or nonfiction book about an orphanage, a poor family, or an orphan.
2. Walk This Way by Aerosmith ft. Run DMC - a favorite book of yours that blends genres.
3. Just Lose It by Eminem - a book that you think is funny or ridiculous in a bad way.
4. Thunderstruck by AC/DC - a book that shocked you in a good or bad way.
5. Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N Roses - a book about L.A. or a book that takes place in or around L.A.
6. Gimme All Your Lovin by ZZ Top - Your favorite romance book, or if you do not read romance, your favorite couple in any book.
7. Fight For Your Right (to Party) by The Beastie Boys - a book centered around a celebration.
8. Firestarter by Prodigy - a book that has fire in the title or has an orange/red cover.
9. Humble by Kendrick Lamar - a fiction or nonfiction book that left you stunned at the audacity of the main character or the writer.
10. Tag other people.
The books I mentioned in this video are:
Night Comes to the Cumberlands - Harry Caudill
Dead Man's Road - Joe R. Lansdale
Forbidden Knowledge - Roger Shattuck
Master of Lies - Graham Masterton
They Thirst - Robert R. McCammon
John Adams - David McCullough
The Sundial - Shirley Jackson
Firestarter - Stephen King
The Iron Dream - Norman SpinradOctober 13th Reading Review: 7 Books!Must Read More2024-10-13 | Thanks for watching, and I hope you'll join me for my next video!
Books Mentioned:
Envious Casca - Georgette Heyer
Desolation - Tim Lebbon
I Protest! Khe Sahn, Vietnam - David Douglas Duncan
The Siberians - Farley Mowat
Souls - Joanna Russ
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - James Tiptree, Jr.
Fletch - Gregory McDonald
Kamikaze - Yasou Kuwahara, Gordon T. AllredAn October Book Haul - 22 Books!Must Read More2024-10-10 | Books I picked up between September and the first week of October 2024. Thanks for watching!
Also, to make a minor correction, in the movie Fletch Lives, Chevy Chase drove a pink 59 Cadillac Eldorado - I almost certainly mixed up the car in Fletch Lives with the car in the movie 48 Hours in which Nick Nolte drove a worn out 64 Cadillac DeVille.
Books mentioned:
The Reason Why - Cecil Woodham Smith
The Black Death - Gwyneth Cravens and John S. Marr
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling - Lawrence Block (also, The Burglar in the Library)
The Journals of Sylvia Plath - Edited by Ted Hughes and Frances McCullough (also, The Bell Jar, and Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams)
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard (also, Concrete Island)
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories
I Protest! Khe San, Vietnam - David Douglas Duncan
The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories - Ruskin Bond
Fletch - Gregory McDonald
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
The Unicorn Book of 1954 - 1955 - 1956
Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard
Flying Tiger: Chenault of China - Robert Lee Scott, Jr.
The Divine Wind - Rikihei Inoguchi, Tadashi Nakajima, and Roger Pineau
Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been? - Henry Berry
Bushmasters - Anthony Arthur
American Guerrilla in the Philippines - Ira Wolfert
Save the Hostages! - David Reed
Platoon Leader - James R. McDonough
Now Thrive the Armourers - Robert O. Holles
Zero - Masatake Okumiya, Jiro Horikoshi, and Martin CaidinBookshelf Tour Pt. 4: Fiction! (Books Ive Read)Must Read More2024-10-08 | Thanks for watching, I've added a full list of the books shown in this video and a few links to other videos I mentioned below.
The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro - Beaumarchais, John Stone translation
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Brian Stone translation
The Illiad - E.V. Rieu translation, revised by D.C.H. Rieu and Peter Jones
The Odyssey - E.V. Rieu translation, revised by D.C.H. Rieu
The Oresteia - Aeschylus, Robert Fagles translation
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith translation
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John LeCarré
The Mezzanine - Nicholson BakerSeptember Reading Recap: 13 Books!Must Read More2024-10-05 | All 13 books I read in September 2024. A good mix of history, biography, science fiction, thriller, adventure, horror, war and mystery. Thanks for watching!
Classics of the Macabre - Daphne du Maurier, illustrated by Michael Foreman
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
Yondering - Louis L'Amour
The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI - Sarah Bradford youtu.be/-JQ_pR5viFg
West From Singapore - Louis L'Amour
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches - Winston S. Churchill
Fortune Favours the Brave: The Battle of the Hook, Korea, 1953 - A.J. Barker
Also, a link to a second September wrap up video: youtu.be/0ChsDVKaVacBookshelf Tour Pt.3: More Nonfiction! (Books Ive Read)Must Read More2024-10-02 | On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us - Michael Moss
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars - Joël Glenn Brenner
Arguably: Selected Essays - Christopher Hitchens
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace - D.T. Max
Solitude: A Return to the Self - Anthony Storr
The Hour of Our Death - Phillippe Aries, translated by Helen Weaver
Breakfast: A History - Heather Arndt Anderson
On the Road with Charles Kuralt
A Bridge Too Far - Cornelius Ryan (also mentioned The Longest Day, and The Last Battle)
Resilience - Eric Greitens
1000 Books to Read Before You Die - James Mustich (also mentioned Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - Rebecca West)
Knights of the Road: A Hobo History - Roger A. Bruns
Distrust That Particular Flavor - William Gibson (Author of Neuromancer)
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days at Sea - Steven Callahan
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village - Ronald Blythe
Essays of Five Decades - J.B. Priestley, edited and selected by Susan Cooper2 Weeks, 7 Books: Churchill, LAmour, Agatha Christie and More!Must Read More2024-09-30 | A short look at the seven books I've read over the past two weeks (15 September - 29 September 2024). Thanks for watching, please feel free to leave a comment or ask a question and have a wonderful day!
Books include:
Classics of the Macabre - Daphne du Maurier. Illustrated by Michael Foreman
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches - Winston S. Churchill
Fortune Favours the Brave: The Battle of the Hook, Korea, 1953 - A.J. Barker
Envious Casca - Georgette HeyerThe Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI by Sarah BradfordMust Read More2024-09-26 | The son of George V, grandson of Edward VII, great grandson of Queen Victoria, George VI ascended to the throne on December 11, 1936, upon the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII, and ruled until his death on February 6, 1952, ushering in the long reign Queen Elizabeth II.
If I'm a bit rambling and forgetful in this video, it's because I was speaking entirely from memory, hence the pauses and overlooked details. Thanks for watching and have a wonderful day!
1. Nom Nom Nom - Choose a companion or adventurers that will ensure you eat well on your quest. (Killick from Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin Series)
2. I Know This One - Choose a companion or adventurers to help you win a pub/tavern quiz. (Bernie Rhodenbarr and Karolyn Kaiser from Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries)
3 Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe - Choose a companion or adventurers that will stay loyal and trustworthy until the very end. (Dana Scully from The X-Files novels, and Dr. Watson from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories)
4. Got Your Back - Choose a companion or adventurers that will help you out in a fight. (Speaker To Animals from Larry Niven's Ringworld)
5. Man's Best Friend - Choose a companion or adventurers that are not human. (Bill the Pony from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings)
6. Tag Other Booktubers.
Because so many people have already done this tag, I've decided to leave links to other videos I've enjoyed rather than tag anyone, but if you haven't done this tag, consider yourself tagged:
Please let me know if any of these links are broken, and have a wonderful day!Bookshelf Tour Pt.2: History and Biographies, Mostly (Books Ive Read)Must Read More2024-09-23 | Part two of my tour through my bookshelves, this time focusing mostly on history and biographies, all of which I've read.
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman - Merle Miller
December 7, 1941 - Gordon W. Prange
The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert Caro
A Distant Mirror - Barbara Tuchman
Warriors at Suez - Donald Neff
John Adams - David McCullough
The Ascent of Man - Dr. Jacob Bronowski
American Dreams Lost and Found - Studs TerkelBookshelf Tour Pt. 1: The Adventure Begins! (Books Ive Read)Must Read More2024-09-21 | Embarking on a grand bookshelf tour of my library, showing you all the books I've liked enough to keep.
Books mentioned:
Blindsight - Peter Watts
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
To Serve Them All My Days - R.F. Delderfield
The Aubrey / Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World, The Truelove)
Spy Story - Len Deighton
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Great Ghost Stories
Weird Tales, and Masterpeices of Terror and the Supernatural - Selected by Marvin Kaye
Peices of My Mind, And More by Andy Rooney
The Morro Castle - Hal Burton6 Books Gathering DustMust Read More2024-09-18 | Books Mentioned:
The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
A Rifleman Went to War - Herbert W. McBride
Works of Love - Soren Kierkegaard
No Man's Land - John Toland
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Rose Madder - Stephen KingReading Wrap Up: Icefire, Day One, A Demon Haunted Land, and More!Must Read More2024-09-14 | Feel free to leave comments and ask questions!
Books mentioned:
A Demon Haunted Land - Monica Black
Icefire - Robert C. Wilson
The Burglar in the Library - Lawrence Block
The Tartarus Incident - William Greenleaf
Dive in the Sun - Douglas Reeman (Also, The Pride and the Anguish)
Day One: Before Hiroshima and After - Peter Wyden (Also, Hiroshima - John Hersey; The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes; and Command and Control - Eric Schlosser)Book Haul: LeCarre, Silverberg, Du Maurier, Thatcher, and More!Must Read More2024-09-08 | Books Mentioned:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People - John LeCarre (Also, The Honourable Schoolboy)
Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier
Blood On the Risers - John Leppelman
Day One: Before and After Hiroshima - Peter Wyden
Alone - Michael Korda (Also, The Duel by John Lukacs, and The Phony War 1939-1940 by Tom Shactman)
The Last King of America - Andrew Roberts
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
The Roads to Quoz - William Least Heat Moon
The Downing Street Years - Margaret Thatcher
Great Detectives - David Willis McCullough, ed.
In Retrospect - Robert S. McNamara
Lost World of Time - Lin Carter
Destination: Universe - A. E. Van Vogt
Tomorrow is Too Far - James White
Voyager in Night - C.J. Cherryh
Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg
No Doors, No Windows - Harlan Ellison
The Milagro Beanfield War - John Nichols
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies - Clark Ashton SmithAll The Books I Read In August: Aeschylus, Elmore Leonard, Bill Bryson, and More!Must Read More2024-09-02 | Books Mentioned:
McLuhan For Beginners - W. Terrence Gordon, Ill. by Susan Willmarth
Lonesome Traveler - Jack Kerouac ( Also, Desolation Angels, and On the Road)
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
Beowulf - Burton Raffel translation (Also, Grendel by John Gardner)
The Death Merchant #54: Apocalypse U.S.A - Joseph Rosenberger (DNF)
The X-Files: Whirlwind - Charles Grant
The Life of Ian Fleming - John Pearson (DNF)
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson (Also, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, One Summer 1927, and also At Home: A Short History of Private Life)
The Dark Crusader - Alistair MacLean
Shadoweyes - Kathryn PtacekRethinking My Reading Goal: When a Challenge Becomes a BurdenMust Read More2024-08-31 | What I've decided to do about a reading goal that has served its purpose and become a burden. Please feel free to leave comments or ask questions!
Books Mentioned:
Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie
The Iron Lady - Hugo Young
December 7, 1941 - Gordon W. Prange (with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon)Before Booktube, Pt. 2: The Books I Read in JulyMust Read More2024-08-25 | youtu.be/6lSJQMnSVSg
The Rising - Brian Keene
Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula, or The Adventures of the Sanguinary Count - Loren D. Estleman
The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
The Tower - Simon Clark
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (Also mentioned A Stir of Echoes, and What Dreams May Come)
Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie
The Agricola and The Germania - Tacitus
Midnight Specials - Bill Pronzini
Neither Here Nor There (Also mentioned: The Road to Little Dribbling) - Bill Bryson
Han Solo at Star's End - Brian DaleyBefore Booktube, Pt. 1: The Books I Read in JulyMust Read More2024-08-23 | This is part one of a two-part video about the books I read, in order, in July, before I started my Booktube channel.
Books mentioned in this video:
The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters (I called it The Seven Sinners in the video) Icebound - Andrea Pitzer The Silent Service: Seawolf Class - H. Jay Riker A Sound of Thunder - Ray Bradbury Blue Skies and Blood - Edwin P. Hoyt Domain - James Herbert Balcony in the Forest - Julien Gracq Helmet for My Pillow - Robert Leckie The Triton Ultimatum - Lawrence Delaney 1066 - David HowarthWhy I DNFed Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireMust Read More2024-08-21 | Link to CriminOlly's short Why Do Publishers Hate Readers So Much:
Also, I totally mixed-up Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill's father, with Randolph Churchill, Winston's son, my apologies.
Books mentioned:
World in Torment - Martin Gilbert The History of the Kings of Britain - Geoffrey of Monmouth The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward GibbonWhat Ive Been Reading, Some Thoughts, and the Goodyear Blimp!Must Read More2024-08-19 | Here's a link to the appearance Kerouac made on William F. Buckley's show, with Lewis Yablonksy, author of The Hippie Trip, and Ed Sanders, poet, singer, writer, protestor, hippie, (and also, I read that poet Allen Ginsberg was in the audience, though I don't think he's shown on camera) September 3, 1968:
Lonesome Traveler - Jack Kerouac (and The Hippie Trip - Lewis Yablonsky)
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
Beowulf - the Burton Raffels translation (Also, Grendel - John Gardner, and Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton)
The X-Files: Whirlwind - Charles Grant (and The X-Files: Ruins - Kevin Jay Anderson)
Also, my not so in-depth account of randomly spotting the Goodyear Blimp floating over central KentuckyAnother Book Haul (With a Better Camera)Must Read More2024-08-16 | Books featured in this video:
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson The Reluctant King - Sarah Bradford Ocean Liners of the 20th Century - Gordon Newell The Golden Age of Ocean Liners - Lee Server Icefire - Robert C. Wilson The Haunted Lady - Mary Roberts Rhinehart Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword - Frank Thomas Ghost Boy - Jean Simon The Silent Service: Virginia Class - H. Jay Riker A Demon-Haunted Land - Monica Black The Great War 1914-1918 - Cyril Falls King Arthur and His Knights - Sir James Knowles Panzer Commander - Hans von Luck Donovan: America's Master Spy - Richard Dunlop The Life of Ian Fleming - John PearsonThe Booktube Newbie TagMust Read More2024-08-14 | Hello everyone, for my next video I'm going to use my phone's camera which is much better (hopefully) than this frustrating, disappointing laptop camera I've been using, so next time the quality of my video should be at least somewhat better. I want to thank ToReadersItMayConcern for this suggestion - I have to admit I feel kind of goofy for having my phone in my pocket all this time and never once remembering that it has a camera. Oh, well, I'm still learning. See you next time!
Here are some of the Booktubers I've mentioned in this video:
@ToReadersItMayConcern @BookTimewithElvis @CriminOllyBlog @saintdonoghue @anotherbibliophilereads @BookishTexanGarbaugust 2024: The X-Files: Ruins - Mulder and Scully vs. Ancient Mayan MysteriesMust Read More2024-08-12 | With regards to CriminOlly and the Garbaugust crew. My spoiler free book review of The X-Files: Ruins by Kevin J. Anderson, 1996.Garbaugust 2024: Rip Tide - Hero Cop Vs. Killer SharkMust Read More2024-08-10 | With regards to CriminOlly and the Garbaugust crew. Donald D. Cheatham's Rip Tide from 1984. Garbaugust 3D, 2024 I present to you my terribly lit book review, my second video ever.An Introductory Book HaulMust Read More2024-08-08 | Hello, I'm John, I like books, and this is a poorly filmed video of me having a conversation with myself in an empty room about some books I bought. I thought a book haul might give me an opportunity to show the kind of books I enjoy, that I gravitate towards, so welcome to my channel. Hopefully there'll be more to come, and I'm looking forward to having some interesting conversations.