Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How Do You Find The Time Book Tag
Created by Working Man Reads:
youtu.be/wUHKPmn_VWg
Saw it done by James Holder:
youtu.be/1jy6EP8k8Ds
Questions:
1) Where is your favorite place to read?
2) Do you read every day?
3) Do you read out loud to any family members?
4) What is your favorite career for a main character to have? ( Give an example of a book that has that job in it.)
5) Do you read at work?
6) What book are you reading now?
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#marchingmammoths2021
The announcement videos for Marching Mammoths 2021, where you read (or attempt to read) a 800+ page book in the month of march:
Jason @ Old Blue's Chapter and Verse:
youtu.be/g4nq_mOwIj0
Lukas @ A Cruel Reader's Thesis:
youtu.be/zYrxR52AUuQ
Alex @ bigalbooks:
youtu.be/1pfKTIfuZBY
Books discussed:
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John-Mandel
2020
Parrot & Olivier in America
by Peter Carey
2009
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
1605 & 1615
translated by Edith Grossman
2003
(Video #385)
How Do You Find The Time Book Tag
Created by Working Man Reads:
youtu.be/wUHKPmn_VWg
Saw it done by James Holder:
youtu.be/1jy6EP8k8Ds
Questions:
1) Where is your favorite place to read?
2) Do you read every day?
3) Do you read out loud to any family members?
4) What is your favorite career for a main character to have? ( Give an example of a book that has that job in it.)
5) Do you read at work?
6) What book are you reading now?
***
#marchingmammoths2021
The announcement videos for Marching Mammoths 2021, where you read (or attempt to read) a 800+ page book in the month of march:
Jason @ Old Blue's Chapter and Verse:
youtu.be/g4nq_mOwIj0
Lukas @ A Cruel Reader's Thesis:
youtu.be/zYrxR52AUuQ
Alex @ bigalbooks:
youtu.be/1pfKTIfuZBY
Books discussed:
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John-Mandel
2020
Parrot & Olivier in America
by Peter Carey
2009
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
1605 & 1615
translated by Edith Grossman
2003
(Video #385)


![Monday Reads, August 16, 2021
Monday Reads, August 15, 2021
Books Mentioned:
Gullivers Travels
(or, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships)
Jonathan Swift
1726
(four years away from the big 300th anniversary!)
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World - Leo Damrosch: May 14, 2014
https://youtu.be/vfQ992lh7Cg
H.M.S. Surprise
(Aubrey-Maturin #3)
Patrick O’Brian
1973
Feel Free
Zadie Smith
2018
Better Living Through Criticism:
How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
A.O. Scott
2016
The Moonshine Wars
Elmore Leonard
1969
The Man From Glengarry
Ralph Connor (Reverend Charles Gordon)
1901
I’ll be listening to the Librivox version, which sounds excellent, narrated by Bruce Pirie:
https://librivox.org/the-man-from-glengarry-by-ralph-connor/
Shawn the Maniac’s background video on the novel:
https://youtu.be/fHwWCxW96B0
He will be reading it with The CodeX Cantina (Una and Krypto) and discussing the book in a couple of weeks in a Zoom chat on their channel.
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCodeXCantina
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Shaketember 2021!!!
Join Lukas, Jason, Rainey and Steve as they bring a full month of discussion about Shakespeare in the month of September!
@Old Blues Chapter and Verse
@A Cruel Readers Thesis
@Steve Donoghue
@Rainey Day Reads
Check out their announcement videos on their channel. Each will be hosting a Zoom discussion of a different play throughout the month of September.
9/4: Othello (on Jason’s [Old Blue’s] channel)
9/11: The Tempest (on Raineys channel)
9/18: Henry IV Part 1 (on predictably Steves channel)
9/25: The Winters Tale (on Lukass [ACR’sT] channel)
Ive turned off my comments (at least for a little while). The comments Ive gotten in the past are great. Im just neurotic guy and have been stressed over keeping up my end. Want to hear more? Check out this video:
https://youtu.be/9lg2c0f-doo
(Video 427) Monday Reads, August 16, 2021](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lc4NIiLznIk/mqdefault.jpg)



![Thursday - Year End - Reads, 2020
Books Mentioned:
Dark Sun (Between Earth & Sky #1)
by Rebecca Roanhorse
2020
Trail of Lightning (Sixth World #1)
by Rebecca Roanhorse
2018
The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
by Jean Barman
1991, revised 1996
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
2009
From Wikipedia, referring to the controversy that resulted with the publishing of Trail of Lightning:
At some point in 2018, when the complaints of cultural appropriation surfaced, references to the Ohkay Owingeh were removed from her official website;[4] Roanhorse believes her mother’s family descended from Ohkay Owingeh people but is “trying to be more careful about how she discusses it.
Various articles on the controversy, if you are interested.
https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/trail-of-lightning-is-an-appropriation-of-din%C3%A9-cultural-beliefs-4tvSMvEfNE-i7AE10W7nQg
https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/06/24/the-elizabeth-warren-of-the-scifi-set-au.asp
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-dangers-of-the-appropriation-critique/
https://blogs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/2019/11/11/the-complex-case-of-cultural-appropriation-with-thoughts-on-the-native-american-case/
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2018/08/concerns-about-roanhorses-trail-of.html
(Video #359) Thursday - Year End - Reads, 2020](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oZBQiFTdAvI/mqdefault.jpg)



