Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Guilty Pleasures by Arielle Zibrak is the latest in the Avidly Reads series. I am joined by Rosie and Katie to discuss the term, its history, and its modern context as explored by this slim volume.
Rosie Cockshutt: youtube.com/user/ThisIsRosieC
Katie Reads & Rants: youtube.com/channel/UCXVMVQStYSn1V0_elXbIYlw
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures by Arielle Zibrak: goodreads.com/book/show/55841537-avidly-reads-guilty-pleasures
Guilty Pleasures by Arielle Zibrak is the latest in the Avidly Reads series. I am joined by Rosie and Katie to discuss the term, its history, and its modern context as explored by this slim volume.
Rosie Cockshutt: youtube.com/user/ThisIsRosieC
Katie Reads & Rants: youtube.com/channel/UCXVMVQStYSn1V0_elXbIYlw
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures by Arielle Zibrak: goodreads.com/book/show/55841537-avidly-reads-guilty-pleasures
![The ReRead Book Tag [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HCOlTO2Bm_k/mqdefault.jpg "The ReRead Book Tag [CC]
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
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SOCIAL:
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#booktag #booktagtuesday")
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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")
![Dear Abby... but Books: Recommendations for a Covid Winter [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hr5822-TdTo/mqdefault.jpg "Dear Abby... but Books: Recommendations for a Covid Winter [CC]
I recently received a letter asking for book recommendations to help a reader through some tough times this winter:
Dear Amrita By the Book,
When I was young, I was a big reader, but lately I barely manage a paragraph in The New Yorker at bedtime before I pass out. My bookshelf is crowded with serious literature that goes unread. When I do happen across a real page-turner, I tear through it, happy as can be. However, Im snobby enough that I dont enjoy best-sellers if the writing is poor, like, say, the Twilight series or Dan Browns books. I would really like something good to curl up with while Covid winter rages here in the U.S. Do you have any recommendations for well-written novels that are hard to put down?
Sincerely,
Used to Be Smart
0:00 Dear Me
1:18 Ground Rules
2:24 The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
3:35 Beach Read by Emily Henry
5:31 This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
7:32 The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
8:47 The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters
10:39 I like letters
SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
RECOMMENDED PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUsw458TTc&list=PLtLQgGRM7trx8dsmgCHAqHYW6pC9thZ6t
SOCIAL:
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KHANDAAN, A BOLLYWOOD PODCAST: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-khandaan-podcast
#bookrecommendations")
![Tips & Tricks: How to Read Your Problematic Fave [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Irp-xDz5fug/mqdefault.jpg "Tips & Tricks: How to Read Your Problematic Fave [cc]
Did you just discover that your favorite author is a garbage person? A racist, a homophone, a transphone, an Islamophobe, etc.? Join me as I talk of my extensive experience in reading people who belong in the bin.
Kumail Nanjianis video game surprise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZhq3B-xE0
Brandon Sanderson answers my question: https://youtu.be/3FUoPMrEGyM?t=6600
Transwomen are women.
Transmen are men.
DONATE
The Okra Project: https://www.paypal.me/theokraproject
For the GWORLS: https://linktr.ee/ForTheGworlsParty
Emergency Release Fund: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/emergency-relief-fund-1
Transgender Law Center: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/donate
SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
GET TO KNOW ME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUsw458TTc&list=PLtLQgGRM7trx8dsmgCHAqHYW6pC9thZ6t
SOCIAL:
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![EFF OFF: The F 2020 Booktag! [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JLO-3zNHBkI/mqdefault.jpg "EFF OFF: The F 2020 Booktag! [cc]
A big F U to the year that no one wishes to remember. Except it did have some memorable bits that might make it hard to Forget 2020.
TAGGED BY: Lady Jane Books @ https://youtu.be/jAojoRzO0Vc
ORIGINAL VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6WB2vI7hzw
TAGGING:
Rosie Cockshutt: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThisIsRosieC
Nikkis Books: https://www.youtube.com/user/storiesofroa
Sunny Luca: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-E_aGCZE1bhHTGxDUOTbog
Gunpowder, Fiction and Plot: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyPjOR4heQ9urvB3eOZJOw
Hey Yall, Listen Up!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2RvKmaWUzInOnrdPdbITCg
QUESTIONS:
1. Share some good stuff that has happened in 2020 and some bad stuff if you want?
2. What book did you love at the beginning of the year?
3. A book you were looking forward to that ended up being not great?
4. A book that surprised you this year?
5. A book you like but nobody else does (or talks about enough).
6. A book you want to come out already this year (in 2020).
7. What book were you looking forward to that got pushed to 2021?
8. Finally what book will you think of when you think of 2020?
SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
BINGING BRIDGERTON: https://youtu.be/k-W75-FZOdQ
RECOMMENDED PLAYLIST: 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
#TagTuesday #F2020 #booktag")
![Edward Rochester, Rat Fink, Would Like to Give You a Tour of His Attic: Bad News Lovers Ep. 9 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JV0Rt3vnxjc/mqdefault.jpg "Edward Rochester, Rat Fink, Would Like to Give You a Tour of His Attic: Bad News Lovers Ep. 9 [CC]
Is anybody surprised that Edward Rochester from Jane Eyre is a Bad News Lover? Not if youve read the book!
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SOCIAL:
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KHANDAAN, A BOLLYWOOD PODCAST: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-khandaan-podcast
#BadNewsLovers #JaneEyre #Rochester")
![2nd Chance Reviews: The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer [cc]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J_9iygrU-9c/mqdefault.jpg "2nd Chance Reviews: The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer [cc]
Ive never liked The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer but Im going to give this historical romance/detective fiction a second chance since everyone else loves it so much.
SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyb1ZvLmaDLBsen6QQrO4A
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