David Novak Reads Poetry
Some Thoughts About Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn
updated
#amalek
Yesterday’s video: youtu.be/2tZ7ojU_2cw
@Shellyish
@geopoliticshaiphong
Shelly Swearingen’s inspiring video: youtu.be/JRPUW7E30ps?si=vvAcRMZfYLst9jSF
Scott Ritter talks about intelligence expertise in Russia during this livestream with Danny Haiphong: youtube.com/live/6xJH4wRr9ls?si=wvCAYaGk_SDbVxAj
His relevant discussion, which brought me to thinking about the “China hands,” begins at 1:39:50 and onward.
My video on historians with stellar prose is here: youtu.be/mBa87zG9iFQ
theissue.io/how-the-future-broke
Caitlin Johnstone @CaitlinJohnstone link:
youtu.be/lrAxumrh50Q?si=fT0MeI1qJbmmFVfH
Mehdi Hasan @zeteo_news here talking about the incident in Plainfield:
youtu.be/d9v37g6DQqs?si=bQfPPhIfMhLG7mzu
youtu.be/trQw9LpBs80?si=N29xgvRAWT4pLEhu
Steve Donoghue reads Eberhardt’s poem:
youtu.be/RT9ZIjxuQfU?si=HwER3DAIWefMU1pA
My reading of Eberhardt’s poem:
youtu.be/6PK-1RR649w
I believe an equivalent “joke” about sincerity came from The Best of the Best American Poetry: youtu.be/8CGpX0wpnq0
This is an original tag from the #shaketember hosts:
Kelly @booksimnotreading
Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse
and Nicole @adayofsmallthings
I was tagged by Quaint and Curious Volumes @JamesRuchala whose version of the tag is here: youtu.be/yuVGa2o6p2M?si=Daliz0iQx60242lF
These are the prompts:
1. What was your first experience reading Shakespeare and what was it like?
2. Has the reading of a Shakespeare play ever brought you to tears? What scene was it and where were you when it happened?
3. Are there any people that have played a significant role in your Shakespeare journey?
4. Do you have a favourite book or film about Shakespeare?
5. Which character in Shakespeare most resembles you and in what ways?
6. Which play would you most like to see performed in a theatre and why?
7. What actor, throughout history, would you most like to have seen play Hamlet while in his prime?
8. Deliver your favourite speech or soliloquy from a Shakespeare play.
9. Do any of Shakespeare's plays intimidate you? If yes, what play and why?
10. What tips would you give to intimidated readers coming to Shakespeare for the first time?
11. Which is your favourite Shakespeare play and why?
12. Tag other Booktubers.
Last year’s version: youtu.be/q8K132bDQMc
Sarah Bernhardt Hamlet youtu.be/vJwQy-DhV2s?si=EBsJ5y28u5pNre_E
@bouquinsbooks
@anotherbibliophilereads
@HannahsBooks
@lindysmagpiereads
@heathergregg9975
Announcement videos:
youtu.be/_3oJceCIpBQ?si=XwbUoVBFcNkwTX48
youtu.be/A9ymucmMVD0?si=kkE9pyu94R8sJ_yG
youtu.be/NZCdT2kAoj0?si=eZgiP1RURHtyEz7d
youtu.be/60v2BB5RgDE?si=SR5YEwfx7xPLj6mD
youtu.be/ps9aPbLw6Hs?si=zYzw2xBoe-zIEDN1
#FramedinSeptember
Reading History: youtu.be/pfCQENS-sKE
Ten Historians with Stellar Prose: youtu.be/mBa87zG9iFQ
Books by, Edited by, Adjacent to, About, or (Possibly) Translated by M.I. Finley: youtu.be/b8qeIo52Qeg
Also,
Bernard Lewis’s memoir was included here: youtu.be/R-jkqvEy4a0
and, here are
Some Books About Slavery: youtu.be/nGMyV6KZ4t0
Jen's original tag video: youtu.be/XM-LcPF_Iyk?si=feXyjPBJZ0Gk8tU_
I was tagged (in a comment) by Reney @BeyondBooks-wt5il
Reney’s tag video: youtu.be/Umm77rNG8E4?si=ZPWhFGXs_f5Yrfsk
Cozy Coffee Mug Book Tag
Prompts:
1.Hex the Patriarchy: Share your favorite women authors.
2. Never Underestimate a Woman Who Reads Stephen King Books: Share your favorite fictional women characters.
3. Edgar Allan Poe: Share your favorite Gothic book or story.
4. Swiftea: Name your auto-buy authors.
5. Camp Crystal Lake: Share a book that makes you feel nostalgic.
6. Happy Halloween: Share a holiday-themed book that you recommend.
7. This Mug Contains Magic: Share a book you enjoyed that is outside of your comfort zone/typical genre.
8. Tag some bookish friends.
Two Years Before the Mast by Dana
Exit West by Hamid
The Gallery by Burns
The Great Church in Captivity by Runciman
Briefly touched upon:
The Emergence of Modern Turkey by Bernard Lewis
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Uncivil Rites by Steven Salaita
BookTuber mentioned: @JamesRuchala Quaint and Curious Volumes
Did I say “scientific adventure”? I meant “science fiction adventure”.
Pete reacts to @saintdonoghue in this video here: youtu.be/F68uU6cobSE?si=w-Y99e-QvvrbC3WH
Wherein I show off my printed books: youtu.be/dk17SZSIUt0
Website of Joshua Diedrich Sculptor: joshuadiedrich.com
The teachers being let go are called Jones Lecturers, not Jones Professors. I misspoke. Here is more information regarding the situation at Stanford:
https://search.app/6hUto28qfjjNN6s67
@BookChatWithPat8668 followed with her own: youtu.be/UpooOe9Rw5U?si=gJgiIoZreLKQPQ4i
My short video referred to was this: youtube.com/shorts/4RBcTIgjVwY
Here is @michaelk.vaughan8617 talking about the Shadow: youtu.be/T3KifgSsW8s?si=T81405Et_MgRf8QP
Embodiment and Release
Lit Crit: Politics and Poetics
The Prompts:
1. Istanbul has many names, which do you prefer?
2. Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. Have you read any books by an author because they had won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
3. Have you visited Istanbul?
4. Have you read a book set wholly or partially in Istanbul? (or have you seen a film set in Istanbul?)
5. Have you read a book that mentioned the Armenian Genocide?
There is a Biographical Note to McKay’s Selected Poems which I read here: youtu.be/74RBQioq7QA
As I mention in that video, I steer would-be readers of McKay to this (or possibly some other) Selected in place of the Complete.
Aphra Behn
Anne Bradstreet
Gwendolyn Brooks
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dorothy Parker
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
Charlotte Smith
Phyllis Wheatley
Ten historians:
1. M.I. Finley / The Ancient Economy
2. Bernard Lewis / The Political Language of Islam
3. Steven Runciman / The First Crusade
4. F.R. Cowell / Cicero and the Roman Republic
5. Mark Edward Lewis / Sanctioned Violence in Early China
6. George Holmes / The Later Middle Ages
(Honorable Mention : Maurice Keen / Medieval Europe
7. Henry Adams / The History of the United States
8. Thucydides (Crawley translation)
9. Joyce Tyldesley / Hatchepsut
10. Robert Drews / The Coming of the Greeks
(Honorable Mention: Ivan Morris / World of the Shining Prince)
Poetry in the times of social media: youtu.be/s45eoULFTEw?si=bscxCYiuEeMeE7JJ
“I’ve got a video going through all of my books”: youtu.be/dk17SZSIUt0
I haven’t finished George Monbiot’s interview here, but the first ten minutes of it or so feel stunning in light of the reading I’ve been doing in Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: youtu.be/cnPDnnRvtQg?si=sEJUYaJbFfVq8cbN
History of American poetry by Timothy E.G. Bartel at Knowing Poetry:
Beginnings: youtu.be/8ctNkFt3AvU?si=dp9qhmi9HKixJUmu
Revolution!: youtu.be/6jBrvV5_DtE?si=GJ5fjFOpky6srl41
Renaissance: youtu.be/SxFB8L42jP0?si=qSxRtlyyXwFsmhQl
Renaissance: Aftermath: youtu.be/S0j209CTtcI?si=otj83NvyCXIeUqVS
Modernism: youtu.be/gwU6aZdi2K0?si=E6xZIt4Y5P9g9B89
The Mid-Century: youtu.be/nFgSi5JheMU?si=aNOjR0kiT8smpgay
Popular Poetry: youtu.be/X3JyyJoG-NI?si=023vK4v5RkRhMaFb
Steve Donoghue Q&A: youtu.be/pDg7RQ9rCJ4?si=wgH0XGYSRuWXyyAW
1. @JoeSpivey02 youtu.be/XrTQhRtwHJ8?si=ZERDnPpp0oCsgxka
2. @joshuacreboreads youtu.be/TDdjRRZgRq4?si=9ACuVViaorVmQlC0
3. @aaronfacer youtu.be/jxvJqvjFj8g?si=oHAZSoEmX-2KO51j
4. @BookChatWithPat8668 youtu.be/jxAqhFRIjgQ?si=YVt0q-yu-c0y9Fnf
No need to link my playlists as they can be gotten to under the Playlists tab: all poets discussed are represented here.
For my first book of sonnets, here is the Amazon link, though used vendors online should have it as well: amazon.com/Sonnets-David-Novak/dp/0967542944
This tag was created by: Karen @RovingReader
I was tagged by Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
TAG PROMPTS
1. Magic of Discovery- share a book you found while browsing that you may not have discovered otherwise.
2. Expanding World- share a book that has made you view things from a different perspective or exposed you to new ideas.
3. Open to Change- share a book that has changed who you are as a person or altered your day-to-day habits.
4. Browse a bookstore, library, or a friend's shelves (and talk about a book that you found there).
5. Tag People!
Booktuber Steve Donoghue talking about Lincoln books: youtu.be/pspRRnA_vHo?si=0ff_MrlAkioQpR2j
Hauling in process on the train from Evanston: youtube.com/shorts/M2L3UKcrZ-I
By way of correction, while I stated that Eliot destroyed the careers of many poets, more probably it was their egos that felt the shattering blow.
Volume 1: The Western Hemisphere
Volume 2: The Greater East Asia and Pacific Conflict
My video of some books about WWII: youtu.be/U27XNyFtv-Y
I was tagged by @BookChatWithPat8668 whose version of the tag is here: youtu.be/BQnC4gH6yjM?si=ls6Kq5Aihd4QwCEI
@BeyondBooks-wt5il did this tag, linked here: youtu.be/07RSDVn8dro?si=gXJJNt8_JA-0AISa
The Prompts:
1. What for you makes a good book?
2. What are you currently reading?
3. What's the last book you didn't finish and why?
4. What obscure book do you wish other people would read?
5. What's the longest book you've ever read?
6. If you could have a dinner party with five fictional characters, who would they be?
7. Five books you'd want if stranded on a desert island.
8. One book you could not put down.
9. Five books or authors you will never read.
10. If you were to write a book, what would it be about?
11. Tag some people.
I tag:
@genteelblackhole
@SluggishReader
@BooklessPete
@AnnNovella
@ramblingraconteur1616
@TimeTravelReads
@mattsbookshelf4084
My WWII video as mentioned (a “show and tell” of books): youtu.be/U27XNyFtv-Y
Sailing Alone Around the World by Slocum
The White Rajahs by Runciman
The Eastern Schism by Runciman
The Traitor’s Niche by Kadare
Books just begun:
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
The Great Church in Captivity by Runciman
Jessica at @JessBookgirlTV revived this tag with the words: "I saw 'The Honest Booktuber Tag,' on someone else's channel. I decided to do it. It's a fun one to do and I am hoping it gets revived.”
Tag created by @HarrietRosie13
Prompts:
1. Have you ever lied about reading a book?
2. Have you ever avoided a book because of controversy around the content/author/
3. Have you ever been sent a book for free and not disclosed it?
4. Have you ever bought a book with no intention of reading it?
5. Have you ever got caught up in Booktube drama?
6. Have you ever had a hate comment and did you respond?
7. Have you ever made a video just because you knew it would get views?
8. If you could go back to the beginning of your channel, would you do anything differently?
9. Are there any channels you wish you could be more like?
10. What's something you love about your channel?
11. Tag some people.
Video wherein I bring up Volume 1 of Guilar’s work: youtu.be/69QRJY2PeL8
Yesterday’s poetry reading: youtu.be/SVVUDll4gPY
Layamon’s Brut: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRx7Eb5n6yefP86-2hvLAGhEjkbMAC4cB&si=_dh_ycpCujISQUnf
Victor Jara: youtu.be/4yOjnpVKsoQ?si=WirwQit8PKO3lBkE
My earliest books published under the imprint of Non Fit Press have to be searched for among online vendors; the rest can be found at my Lulu page linked here: lulu.com/spotlight/davidxnovak