Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Is it a Friday Reads, a Tag or a TBR? It's inspired by #FaulknerInAugust2021 I can tell you that!
The Tag is in anticipation of Faulkner in August created by Allen one of the hosts.
Everyone is welcome to join in reading Sanctuary by William Faulkner over the month of August.
Hosts this year:
Brian @Bookish See his neat announcement video that sets out which chapters we're reading each week youtu.be/QH9GHoi7WO4
Allen of Big Hard Books & Classics. See his original video launching this tag youtu.be/1UXDGLV4zZk
Ros at Scallydandling about the books - her tag video is here youtu.be/1yj-z0WRUMs
Una and Krypto @The CodeX Cantina
And new this year Noah @Everyone Who Reads it Must Converse and myself.
Ros's instructions are to do the tag if you'll be joining the readalong. Or even if you're not!
The Prompts:
3) Yoknapatawpha county: What "county" do you live in and what does its name mean?
1) Benjy in The Sound & The Fury is the ultimate unreliable narrator. Name another/your favourite unreliable narrator:
4) As I Lay Dying = Tell us about a book that draws upon Death or Bereavement:
2) The Sound & The Fury's Jason IV is the ultimate unlikable character. Name another/your favourite villain:
6) Light in August = Name a book that made you furious or describes that intensity of emotion:
4a) Absalom was a son of David who rebelled again his father. Name a Rebellion or Biblical character story:
5) What is your favorite Faulkner novel and why?
7) Extra credit: What was Falkner's nanny's name and why is this significant?
The books that are in Friday reads and that were mentioned (in no particular order - me and Faulkner may have something in common) were:
Heaven By Mieko Kawakami translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd - this was purchases in Chapters Book Shop Dublin - http://chapters.ie/
We Are Not Ourselves - buddy read with Allen of Big Hard Books & Classics. youtu.be/AXrVupafjP4
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell - is this Literary Horror? Watch my wrapup to find out.
Bunny by Mona Awad - Bunnies are scary folks!
Florence & Giles by John Harding - Turn of the Screw rewritten from Flo perspective and twisted ever so slightly. I got this one in Bookshop.ie
Snowflake by Louise Nealon - this is published by Bonnier Books - You NEED to get a copy of this one!!!!
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris - may not be about what you think it is about!
Maggie O'Farrell's story of a family who just got toooo hot one summer and lost the plot (not literally) - Instructions for a Heatwave.
Is it a Friday Reads, a Tag or a TBR? It's inspired by #FaulknerInAugust2021 I can tell you that!
The Tag is in anticipation of Faulkner in August created by Allen one of the hosts.
Everyone is welcome to join in reading Sanctuary by William Faulkner over the month of August.
Hosts this year:
Brian @Bookish See his neat announcement video that sets out which chapters we're reading each week youtu.be/QH9GHoi7WO4
Allen of Big Hard Books & Classics. See his original video launching this tag youtu.be/1UXDGLV4zZk
Ros at Scallydandling about the books - her tag video is here youtu.be/1yj-z0WRUMs
Una and Krypto @The CodeX Cantina
And new this year Noah @Everyone Who Reads it Must Converse and myself.
Ros's instructions are to do the tag if you'll be joining the readalong. Or even if you're not!
The Prompts:
3) Yoknapatawpha county: What "county" do you live in and what does its name mean?
1) Benjy in The Sound & The Fury is the ultimate unreliable narrator. Name another/your favourite unreliable narrator:
4) As I Lay Dying = Tell us about a book that draws upon Death or Bereavement:
2) The Sound & The Fury's Jason IV is the ultimate unlikable character. Name another/your favourite villain:
6) Light in August = Name a book that made you furious or describes that intensity of emotion:
4a) Absalom was a son of David who rebelled again his father. Name a Rebellion or Biblical character story:
5) What is your favorite Faulkner novel and why?
7) Extra credit: What was Falkner's nanny's name and why is this significant?
The books that are in Friday reads and that were mentioned (in no particular order - me and Faulkner may have something in common) were:
Heaven By Mieko Kawakami translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd - this was purchases in Chapters Book Shop Dublin - http://chapters.ie/
We Are Not Ourselves - buddy read with Allen of Big Hard Books & Classics. youtu.be/AXrVupafjP4
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell - is this Literary Horror? Watch my wrapup to find out.
Bunny by Mona Awad - Bunnies are scary folks!
Florence & Giles by John Harding - Turn of the Screw rewritten from Flo perspective and twisted ever so slightly. I got this one in Bookshop.ie
Snowflake by Louise Nealon - this is published by Bonnier Books - You NEED to get a copy of this one!!!!
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris - may not be about what you think it is about!
Maggie O'Farrell's story of a family who just got toooo hot one summer and lost the plot (not literally) - Instructions for a Heatwave.
