I tag: Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Brian @BookishTexan David @davidnovakreadspoetry Catherine @takingteawithcatherine Justin @TriumphalReads Renee @thelefthandedreader6632 Mark @BookTimewithElvis Jim @jimsbooksreadingandstuff And Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue who has lived all over the world
The Prompts:
1.) What is a book that reminds you of or takes place in each place that you've lived? This could mean country, state/province, city/town, and or apartment/house. Just come up with a book that really resonates with you and the time you spent in each place where you've had a mailing address!
2.) Since a roadmap not only shows you where you've been but also where you're going, what is a book that reminds you of or takes place in your next destination? Or a place you'd like to live in?
Books Mentioned: The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene Little Women by Louisa May Alcott To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 1984 by George Orwell The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community by Charles Joyner The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved by Toni Morrison William Faulkner Eudora Welty Gail Godwin Poets: Seamus Heaney, Lucie Brock-Broido, Marie Howe, Kevin Young Social Theory: Foucault, Judith Butler Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe Moosewood by Mollie Katzen Laurel’s Kitchen by Laurel Roberton Yotam Ottolenghi Drew Faust The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Anne Sexton: poems, letters, biography, daughter’s memoir… (Red Comet by Heather Clark) Deaf studies: A Place of Their Own by John Van Cleve and Barry Crouch, Forbidden Signs by Doug Baynton, Words Made Flesh by RAR Edwards, and Train Go Sorry by Leah Hager Cohen A book about redoing a Victorian house in a US state that starts with an M? What to Expect When You’re Expecting Spiritual Midwifery by May Gaskin The Harry Potter books Madeleine’s World by Brian Hall Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl The Country of Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
Road Map of Your Life Book Tag [CC] #TagTuesday #BooktubeHannahs Books2024-06-08 | Join me as I celebrate Tag Tuesday--on Saturday--by responding to the Roadmap of Your Life Book Tag.
I tag: Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Brian @BookishTexan David @davidnovakreadspoetry Catherine @takingteawithcatherine Justin @TriumphalReads Renee @thelefthandedreader6632 Mark @BookTimewithElvis Jim @jimsbooksreadingandstuff And Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue who has lived all over the world
The Prompts:
1.) What is a book that reminds you of or takes place in each place that you've lived? This could mean country, state/province, city/town, and or apartment/house. Just come up with a book that really resonates with you and the time you spent in each place where you've had a mailing address!
2.) Since a roadmap not only shows you where you've been but also where you're going, what is a book that reminds you of or takes place in your next destination? Or a place you'd like to live in?
Books Mentioned: The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene Little Women by Louisa May Alcott To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 1984 by George Orwell The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community by Charles Joyner The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved by Toni Morrison William Faulkner Eudora Welty Gail Godwin Poets: Seamus Heaney, Lucie Brock-Broido, Marie Howe, Kevin Young Social Theory: Foucault, Judith Butler Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe Moosewood by Mollie Katzen Laurel’s Kitchen by Laurel Roberton Yotam Ottolenghi Drew Faust The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Anne Sexton: poems, letters, biography, daughter’s memoir… (Red Comet by Heather Clark) Deaf studies: A Place of Their Own by John Van Cleve and Barry Crouch, Forbidden Signs by Doug Baynton, Words Made Flesh by RAR Edwards, and Train Go Sorry by Leah Hager Cohen A book about redoing a Victorian house in a US state that starts with an M? What to Expect When You’re Expecting Spiritual Midwifery by May Gaskin The Harry Potter books Madeleine’s World by Brian Hall Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl The Country of Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Reads and Rambles: Wrapping up the Art Readthon Framed! #framedinseptember #artreadathonHannahs Books2024-10-17 | Join me as I talk about some of my reading and other adventures during September’s art readathon Framed!
0:00 Beginning 1:55 A piece of art, made by my son 4:43 So Much Blue by Percival Everett (novel) 6:56 All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley (memoir) 8:57 Losing Music by the author John Cotter (memoir) 11:22 Chasing Beauty, a biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra (biography) 12:38 Description of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 15:48 Video Tour of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
Other books mentioned: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome The Odyssey by Homer
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Hosts of Framed!: @bouquinsbooks @heathergregg9975 @lindysmagpiereads @anotherbibliophilereads and me @HannahsBooks
sub 5145Victober TBR and my other plans for October #victoberHannahs Books2024-10-01 | Join me as I chat about Victober (my favorite booktube event of the year), my upcoming stay at a cabin in Maine, and a bunch of the titles I want to read!
Books and authors mentioned: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy (which I have now found on audio!) London's Yiddish Theatre scene George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel by Julia Sun-Joo Lee By the Book by Julia Sonneborn The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James The Bostonians by Henry James
Sub 5085Literary Boston #3: Boston Public Library and the Boston AthenaeumHannahs Books2024-09-25 | Join me as I find some quiet and beautiful places to read and write in Boston, Massachusetts.
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sub 5065Reads and Rambles, 21 September 2024Hannahs Books2024-09-20 | Join me as I belatedly talk about some of the books I read in August, a few recent Booktube videos and events, and also one of my favorite non-YouTube events going on right now.
00:00 Celebrating 5 years and 5 thousand subscribers! 02:41 The issue of AUDIOBOOKS 04:45 FAULKNER IN AUGUST: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 08:53 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 13:24 Last Orders by Graham Swift 17:24 PHENOMENAL WOMEN 20:19 BEAUTY IN BOOKS: Several Discussions on YouTube 23:15 MODPO: Modern and Contemporary Poetry
sub 5030Looking at Art in Philadelphia #FramedinSeptember #ArtReadathonHannahs Books2024-09-04 | Join me as I look at Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art at the amazing Barnes Foundation as I celebrate Framed in September, the art readathon on exhibition this month!
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Booktubers & the Philadelphia Bookstore CrawlHannahs Books2024-08-28 | Join me as I pause my videos on Literary Boston and talk instead about the booktubers I met this past weekend and the bookstores we visited in Philadelphia!
Other booktubers mentioned: @BookChatWithPat8668 @bighardbooks770 @saintdonoghue
00:00 Opening and intro to Philly Bookstore Crawl with my fellow booktubers 01:31 My trip to West Philadelphia & my amazing time at House of Our Own Books 08:17 Tour of House of Our Own Books (Music: The Thought of You) 10:07 Downtown Philly 11:05 Mostly Books 13:13 Giovanni’s Room 16:39 Garland of Letters 16:57 Head House Books 17:56 The Book Trader 19:27 Closing section
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Literary Boston Vlog #2: Beacon Hill Books, Authors’ Homes, and the EsplanadeHannahs Books2024-08-22 | Join me for another bookish adventure in Boston where I visit Beacon Hill Books, take a look at homes where famous American authors lived, walk along the Charles River on the Esplanade, and end the afternoon by sharing lemonade with a special person.
00:00 Beginning 01:08 Beacon Hill Books (Music : Book Bag) 09:28 Authors' Homes 13:40 The Esplanade (Music: Walk Through the Park) 17:41 Cucumber Lemonade with a friend…
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Literary Boston Vlog #1: Brattle Book Shop, the Public Garden, and my cool B&BHannahs Books2024-08-15 | Join me for my adventures in literary Boston! In Part 1, I'll show you around my amazing (and bookish) Bed and Breakfast, follow the swan boats and ducks at the Boston Public Garden, and then visit the amazing Brattle Book Shop and see its most celebrated shopper, Steve Donoghue!
0:00 Opening Montage and Introduction 02:21 My Bed and Breakfast 07:14 Boston Public Garden (Music: Swans in Flight by Asher Fularo) 09:12 Brattle Book Shop and Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue (Music: Running Errands by Track Tribe)
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Winning Title Book Tag #tagtuesday #booktubeHannahs Books2024-08-13 | Join me as I celebrate Tag Tuesday by responding to the Winning Title Book Tag, created by Heather at the lovely channel @ Heather Reads
PROMPTS: Have You Ever [Read] a Book Because it Had... 1. A Funny Title? 2. A Shocking Title? 3. A Title that sounded like a line of poetry? 4. A Title Which Made Me ask Question? 5. A Heartwarming Title? 6. A Title with an Unusual Combination of Words? 7. A Fantastic or Magical Title? 8. A Title Which is a Contradiction or describes the Impossible? 9. Tag others
BOOK TITLES AND AUTHORS MENTIONED: THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER OVER THE SEPTIC TANK by Erma Bombeck QUICHE OF DEATH by MC Beaton WILL MY CAT EAT MY EYEBALLS by Caitlin Doughty THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE by Rita Mae Brown ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marque RIP VAN WINKLE by Washington Irving THE ELEGANCE OF A HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery NATURAL MAGIC by Renee Bergland
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)The Nightclub Book Tag! #tagtuesday #booktubeHannahs Books2024-08-06 | Join me as I celebrate Tag Tuesday here on booktube and respond to the clever Nightclub Book Tag, created by Brian at the channel BellTube @BrianBell7
PROMPTS: 1 – "Cocktail Hour" - Name a book you that you think pairs perfectly with your favourite drink. 2 - "Neon Lights" - Name a book with a cover that immediately grabbed your attention like bright lights in a club. 3 - "The Bouncer" - What book did you have to put down because it just wasn't letting you in? 4 - "DJ's Choice" - What book would you recommend as the perfect read for someone new to the fantasy genre? 5 - "Disco Ball" - Name a book that made you feel like you were part of a vibrant, glittering world. 6 - "Dance Floor Diva" - What book had you dancing with excitement from the first page to the last? 7 - "Guest List" - Which author would you invite to an exclusive book-themed party and why? 8 - "VIP Entrance" - Which book did you feel privileged to read before it became more widely popular? 9 - "Dance Battle" - Which two characters from different books would you love to see face off in a dance battle? 10 - "Midnight Read" - What's a book you couldn't put down and ended up reading all night? Now this is an easy question for you, Steve. 11 - "After-Party" - What book left you with a hangover, unable to start a new read immediately after finishing it? 12 - "Late Night Conversations" - Which book left you thinking deeply or wanting to discuss it with others late into the night? 13. Tag People!
BOOKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald Master and Margarita by Mikahil Bulgakov, translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Natural Magic by Renee Bergland Greg Iles: The Quiet Game and Southern Man George Eliot and Eudora Welty James by Percival Everett Anthony Trollope and Jane Austen Thomas Hardy Light in August by William Faulker Cyrano d Bergerac by Edward Rostond, translated by Anthony Burgess The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Framed in September: An Art ReadathonHannahs Books2024-08-01 | Join us in September to read and think about art in all its forms! I've included a dozen book suggestions.
#FramedinSeptember #ArtReadathon
HOSTS: Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks Greg @anotherbibliophilereads Lindy @lindysmagpiereads Heather @heathergregg9975 And me! Hannah @HannahsBooks
READ-ALONG PROMPTS: 1) Read a book about art (fiction or nonfiction) 2) Experience art (live performance or museum/gallery visit) * Bonus prompt: Create art or tell us about a work of art that has special meaning to you
BOOKS MENTIONED 00:00 beginning of video 02:48 Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton 03:45 A Year in the Art World by Matthew Israel 04:19 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley 05:10 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg 05:50 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Lonely by Olivia Laing 06:18 Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter 07:54 The Gardener Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser 08:20 Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardener, by Natalie Dykstra 08:45 The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin 09:18 So Much Blue by Percival Everett 09:57 Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood 10:37 Girl Reading by Katie Ward
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Surprise! [CC]Hannahs Books2024-07-26 | I've been hiding something…. (My apologies for how nervous I was filming, and how quiet I was in this short video. I had neighbors at my Bed & Breakfast having to listen to every word! Captions are available.)
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Book Haul! Brattle Book Shop, Little Free Libraries, etc.Hannahs Books2024-07-24 | Isn't it time for a book haul?! I am very late going through these books! The books I mention today were found at the Brattle almost a year ago--or at Little Free Libraries and used book sales since then.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Books and Films in Jane Austen July #janeausten #janeaustenjulyHannahs Books2024-07-21 | Join me as I discuss some of the books and films I’ve enjoyed during the first part of Jane Austen July!
WORKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED: Love and Marriage: In the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir By the Book: a novel by Julia Sonneborn The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel by Julia Lee The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer Sense and Sensibility (2024 Hallmark screen adaptation) Scents and Sensibility (2011 modern retelling on screen) [briefly referenced: the Sense and Sensibility screen adaptations from 1995 and 2008] Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon Pride and Prejudice (1980 BBC screen adaptation)
Books and Authors Mentioned: Edna St Vincent Millay Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Tour De France: Jane Austen Edition #janeaustenjulyHannahs Books2024-07-02 | Join me as I celebrate Jane Austen July, mark Tag Tuesday, and make my debut in both the Summer of Sport and the Tour de France by responding to the Tag de France!
Tag created by Gavin @GenreBooks23 I tag anyone who has read a book in French recently, including @bouquinsbooks and @AnnNovella Also mentioned: @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
The Prompts: 1. "Le Grand Depart": A memorable preface, introduction or opening line. 2. "Maillot Vert": A book under 150 pages. 3. "King of the Mountains": A book that you persevered with, and are glad that you did 4. "Maillot Jaune": A book where "yellow" is prominent. 5. "Lantern Rouge": A book you were late to. 6. "Hors catégorie": What's the hardest book that you've read (or failed to read). 7. Endurance: Your favourite series. 8. "Champs-Élysées": Your favorite "Paris" novel. 9. Lance Armstrong: Have you ever cheated with a book to get to the end quicker? 10. “L’equipe”: tag some people!
Tag de France, Summer of Sport, Tag Tuesday, #booktube #janeausten #tagtuesday
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner: Faulkner iin August 2024Hannahs Books2024-07-01 | Join us next month for the Faulkner in August, where we will be discussing As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Want to join the Voxer discussion? Contact me to be added via my Voxer account: hannahsbooks
TIME STAMPS: 00:00 Intro 00:35 AS I LAY DYING By William Faulkner 02:00 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jessmyn Ward 02:35 Last Orders by Graham Swift
HOSTS: Allen @bighardbooks770 Brian @BookishTexan Aaron @aaronfacer Christina @knittingbooksetc.2810 Greg @anotherbibliophilereads Hannah @HannahsBooks Jim @JimReadsTooSlow MJ @M-J at Reading This Life Randy Ray @LiterateTexan Roz @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Una @TheCodeXCantina
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Jane Austen July TBR #janeaustenjuly #janeausten #tbrHannahs Books2024-06-26 | Join me as I share my TBR for the upcoming booktube celebration of Jane Austen July!
The hosts of Jane Austen July: @katiejlumsden @BlatantlyBookish @SpinstersLibrary
THE CHALLENGES 1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels 2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels 3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time 4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time 5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen (ie, published between 1775–1817) 6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book 7. Watch a modern screen adaptation/retelling of a Jane Austen book
BOOKS MENTIONED Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Jane Austen’s Selected Letters The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility, by Marian Veevers The Jane Austen Remedy: It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged that a Book Can Change a Life by Ruth Wilson Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer By the Book by Julia Sonneborn
READ MY BOOK: Unspeakable amzn.to/47HdMh7 Also available on Hoopla!
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)The Booktuber Name TagHannahs Books2024-06-20 | Join me as I talk about my recent reading and upcoming plans—all while I answer the brilliant Booktuber Name Tag created by Aaron Read a Book.
Tag created by Aaron @AaronReadABook I was tagged by Pat @BookChatWithPat8668 and Will @willchambers8065 I tag Jess @stalkingkafka – the channel that inspired my final answer for this tag
TAG PROMPTS: 1. Books I'm Not Reading @booksimnotreading - A book that's been on your TBR forever 2. Novel iDeea @novelideea - A book with an interesting premise or plot device 3. Revenant Reads @revenantreads - A book where someone has returned from the dead 4. CriminOlly @CriminOllyBlog - A book where a crime takes place 5. Book Time With Elvis @BookTimewithElvis - A book about time, time travel, or someone named Elvis 6. MIDDLE of the Book MARCH @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH - Your favourite book that you read in March 7. Book Buds @BookBuds - A book with a great friendship 8. Obscure Book Adventures @ObscureBookAdventures - A book that you love that never gets talked about 9. Savage Reads @savagereads - A book with a monster, or beast, or human acting monstrous or beastly 10. Stalking Kafka @stalkingkafka - A book that fits your own channel name or the name of a channel that you love
Other booktubers and booktube events mentioned: Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Steve @saintdonoghue Author Spotlight: Elizabeth Bowen, organized by Sarah @HardcoverHearts Proust 2025: Randy Ray @LiterateTexan, Greg @anotherbibliophilereads, and many others Faulkner in August: Brian @BookishTexan, Allen @bighardbooks770, and others
Other booktubers mentioned: Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue Allen @bighardbooks770 Greg @anotherbibliophilereads
The Read Smart Tag questions: 1. What is your strategy to stay focused and engaged while reading? 2. How does your environment influence your focus and what can you do to optimize it? 3. What methods do you use to retain and recall information from what you've read? 4. How do you approach difficult or challenging material? 5. What role do note-taking and annotation play in your reading process? 6. How do you balance reading for pleasure with reading for personal or professional development? 7. What is the importance of setting reading goals? 8. What are some strategies for overcoming reading slumps or lack of motivation?
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)HORROR: Reading Stephen King for the first timeHannahs Books2024-06-01 | Comparing Stephen King’s “On Slide Inn Road” and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
BOOKS DISCUSSED: We Loved It All by Lydia Millet Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley Other People’s Words by Lissa Soep Trondheim by Cormac James Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench
EVENTS AND CREATORS MENTIONED: #MemoirMay @jaimee-kate #MentalHealthMay #MentalHealthMay Marilyn Maya @MarilynMayaMendoza and Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH #MiseryMay Scott @GunpowderFictionPlot and Gemma @GemofBooks
MY 2024 BOOK REVIEWS (published in Open Letters Review):
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)The Library Tag #booktube #tagtuesdayHannahs Books2024-05-09 | Join me as I tell lots of stories (and belatedly celebrate Tag Tuesday) while responding to the wonderful Library Tag!
This tag was created by @BookBuds I was tagged by @readandre-read I tag @myreadinglife8816 @anenthusiasticreader @bouquinsbooks @CoynieReads @katiejlumsden
THE TWO SETS OF PROMPTS TO CHOOSE FROM: *If you DO go to the library… answer these: 1. How often do you go to the library? 2. Do you belong to more than one library system? 3. What percent of books you read come from the library? 4. Do you listen to audiobooks or get e-books from the library or are you hooked on Audible or Amazon or something else? 5. Did you go to storytime at the library as a kid? 6. Have you ever borrowed a movie or video game from your library? 7. Have you ever gotten fined for returning books late? If so, how do you feel about that? 8. Do you attend special events, groups or book sales at the library? 9. Have you ever given or taken a book from a little free library, a book box or a book swap? 10. Bonus! Does your librarian know you by name? 11. Tag some friends! *If you DON’T go to the library… answer these: 1. Why the heck not? 2. Where do you get your books from? 3. Have you ever had a library card or do you have one now? 4. When was the last time you stepped foot in the library? 5. Have you ever gone to an event at your library? 6. Do you have little free libraries or book boxes or book swaps where you live? Show us a picture if you do. 7. Tag some friends!
BOOKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED: The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen Eudora Welty Carson McCullers Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Ronnie A. Grinberg Philip Roth and the “Midcentury Misogynists” Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renee Bergland Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt Molly by Blake Butler Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley Trondheim by Cormac James Intervals by Mariane Brooker The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
BOOKTUBERS AND BOOKTUBE EVENTS MENTIONED: Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Sarah @HardcoverHearts #authorspotlightseries #miserymay Joe Spivey @JoeSpivey02 Scott @GunpowderFictionPlot Gemma @GemofBooks @saintdonoghue and Open Letters Review
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)This or That? A book tag for People April #tagtuesday #peopleaprilHannahs Books2024-04-30 | Join me this Tag Tuesday as I answer the "This or That?" book tag, created in celebration of People April—a Booktube celebration of life writing (biography, memoir, etc.).
This tag was created by Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks.
OTHER BOOKTUBERS AND BOOKTUBE EVENTS MENTIONED: #MiseryMay -- Hosts @GunpowderFictionPlot & @GemofBooks (Just to be clear, when I said this event was "totally created for me," I only meant that it fits perfectly with my own tastes!) Aaron Facer @aaronfacer Steve Donoghue@saintdonoghue
PROMPTS: 1) Big, fat and detailed biographies or short and succinct biographies? 2) Celebrity memoirs or average Joe memoirs? 3) Complete correspondence or selected letters? 4) Memoirs written when the events are fresh or memoirs written with hindsight? 5) Gossipy biographies or scholarly biographies? 6) Diaries of ordinary life or diaries of extraordinary events? 7) Arty memoirs or sporting memoirs? 8) Gritty autobiographical writing or inspirational autobiographical writing? 9) Biographies of historical figures or biographies of contemporary figures? 10) Memoirs of happy days or memoirs of tragic days? Elisabeth’s BONUS prompt: The Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys (over 4000 pages or 116 hours and 16 minutes of audiobook) or Selections from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (which can be as short as 120 pages or 3 hours and 55 minutes of audiobook)?
BOOKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED: Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary Dearborn My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland Red Comment: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena by Jordan Salama Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story by Jordan Salama Madeleine’s World by Brian Hall Samuel Pepys’s Diary
Other booktubers and videos mentioned: The Mild Rumpus @mildrumpus Tilly @tillysshelf Tilly's amazing Jane Austen July video: youtu.be/-TZ-BkOn8z0?si=W869imtHk0jRczLK Brian @BookishTexan Allen @bighardbooks770 Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse Kelly @booksimnotreading Steve @saintdonoghue Kate Howe @katehowereads
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye #PoetryThursdayHannahs Books2024-04-18 | Join me as I celebrate Poetry Thursday by reading the beautiful poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)4K Q&A Part 3Hannahs Books2024-04-15 | Join me for what is NOT MY FINAL installment of my Q&A celebrating four thousand subscribers! I made an error, and I will be back soon to do a fairly short Part 4!
Books mentioned: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead Austen Years by Rachel Cohen The Wharton Plot by Mariah Fredericks On the Rocks by Sue Hallgarth Death Comes by Sue Hallgarth Thoreau at Devil's Peak, Thoreau on Wolf Hill, and Thoreau in Phantom Bog by BB Oak The Tale of Hill Top Farm (and seven follow-ups) by Susan Wittig Albert Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flowers (its sequel: I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died) Emily Dickinson is Dead by Jane Langton The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Covenant of Blood: Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism by Lawrence A. Hoffman Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain Antigone by Sophocles
Booktubers asking questions: Alice @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf Grix @materiagrix Angelia @readandre-read (and leaving a lovely compliment: Jim @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn)
Other booktubers and booktube events mentioned (or just briefly and silently referenced, as in the last case): @saintdonoghue People April @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 @bouquinsbooks Art in September @anotherbibliophilereads @bouquinsbooks Horror Mayhem @M-J @bookssongsandothermagic and many others
BOOKTUBERS with QUESTIONS: Allen @bighardbooks770 Melissa @TimeTravelReads David @polyglotreading Deea @novelideea Memphis Jones @heydear365 Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH and many great commenters!
AUTHORS and BOOKS MENTIONED: Peter Ackroyd Dan Jones Possession by AS Byatt Jacques Derrida William Faulkner Eudora Welty Zora Neale Hurston Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Julia Peterkin Sholem Aleichem Isaac Bashevis Singer Gilgamesh (and other ancients) The Great Gatsby Shakespeare The Bible
BOOKTUBERS with QUESTIONS: @M-J at Reading This Life Heidi @myreadinglife8816 @JoeSpivey02 Brian@BookishTexan @heathergregg9975 Steve @saintdonoghue and several great commenters!
ADDITIONAL BOOKTUBERS MENTIONED: Greg @SupposedlyFun Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868 Una and Krypto @TheCodeXCantina Katie @katiejlumsden
AUTHORS MENTIONED: Charlotte Bronte Mary Dearborn Jenn Shapland Jessmyn Ward Hermione Lee Danielle Evans Anne Fadiman Charles Dickens Leo Tolstoy Emily Dickinson Evelyn Waugh Jesmyn Ward
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)4K Q&A Call for QuestionsHannahs Books2024-03-20 | ASK ME ANYTHING to help me celebrate 4k subscribers! Be sure to post your question before Sunday, March 24 at 12pm (noon) Eastern Time.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Whats Cheering Me Up Right NowHannahs Books2024-03-19 | Join me as I talk about what has brought me comfort and joy during a somewhat hard time as I think about What's Cheering Me Up Right Now, spread all over Booktube by the wonderful Gina Stanyer.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Personal UpdateHannahs Books2024-03-02 | I may not be able to participate on Booktube for a bit due to a family health issue. I hope I will be able to pop in occasionally to watch some videos and perhaps comment, but there probably won't be any videos here for at least a few weeks. See you when I return.
The I’m So Annoyed Booktube Tag was created by Kelly @booksimnotreading youtu.be/FeyjxlKKeoE?si=BCe-Cv3VA-fdX7gt and inspired by the discussion by Melinda @awebofstories I was tagged by Will @willchambers8065, MJ at Reading this Life @M-J, and Floss @TheGrapeJellyLibrary Other booktubers mentioned: Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue
Questions: 1. Do publishers ever do things that you find annoying? Share an example. 2. Have you ever been annoyed by a spoiler? Even something as simple as someone else telling you there's a great twist? 3. Have you ever been annoyed by what discovered in a Little Free Library, a book sale or used bookstore? Tell us what you found and why it was so annoying. 4. When it comes to short story collections, are you annoyed if there's a novella in the middle of the collection? 5. Deckled edges: beautiful or annoying? 6. Other people's annotations in a used book or library book: Annoying or are you OK with it? 7. If there's a series or a collection of certain kinds of books (like an imprint) and changes are made, are you annoyed or OK with it? If yes, give us an example. 8. Do the decisions of characters in a novel ever annoy you? Share the book and what decisions you found annoying. 9. Are you ever annoyed by how someone organizes their books? What do you find annoying? 10. Share something bookish that you find annoying, 11. Tag other people!
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)The Memento Mori Tag #booktube #booktag #tagtuesdayHannahs Books2024-02-20 | Join me as respond to the questions of the Memento Mori Tag and think about how our reading and our deaths intersect.
This tag was created by David at the channel @polyglotreading: youtu.be/8SIN4ZqLoug?si=ysvaH-9LGil7HzNL I was tagged by Heather @heathereads and Steve @saintdonoghue I tag Allen @bighardbooks770, Randy Ray @LiterateTexan, and Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse Other booktubers mentioned: Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue and David Novak @davidnovakreadspoetry
BOOKS ETC. MENTIONED: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner Wit by Margaret Edson Being Mortal by Atul Gawande The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs Kafka “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
TAG QUESTIONS: 1. How many books will you be able to read before you die, considering your age and statistical life expectancy? 2. How does this number affect your choice of books? 3. What will happen to your book collection once you have passed away? 4. Is there a book that helps you to cope with the disturbing fact of a limited life-span? 5. Which book on this topic do you consider the most witty or entertaining one? 6. Do you have a specific non-fiction book on the topic of death that you’d like to recommend? 7. Humor can be helpful to confront death. Do you have a favorite witty quote on this topic? 8. Does this tag make you feel uneasy or are you quite relaxed about this topic?
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Reads and Rambles: 3 February 2024 #booktube #booksHannahs Books2024-02-03 | Join me as I talk about some of the great reading I did during my “no good, very bad” past couple of weeks. Only while filming this video did I realize that all four books are about how the experiences of marriage, illness and disability, various kinds of grief, and the process of writing are intimately linked.
Booktubers mentioned: Ann Novella @AnnNovella Bob the Bookerer @BobTheBookerer Their interview with Fleur Pierets: youtu.be/u5qUDD7dPEQ?si=uyZEAN00yireUaqK Micah Cummins @MicahCummins Classics & Company @ClassicsAndCompany
00:00 What’s Been Happening at My House 03:49 JULIAN by Fleur Pierets 09:22 SEX WITH A BRAIN INJURY: Concussion and Recovery by Annie Liontas 13:27 “A Novel” 14:00 BAUMGARTNER: A Novel by Paul Auster 16:28 DAYSWORK: A Novel by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel MOBY DICK by Herman Melville (only briefly mentioned)
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)The book I hated for 40 years: Ethan Frome by Edith WhartonHannahs Books2024-01-19 | I promised that during the next snowfall, I would reread Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton—a book I read when I was seventeen years old and have hated for nearly forty years. Five inches of snow and an evening devoted to reading gave me a chance to revise my opinion. Did I change my mind? Well…
Book discussed: Edith Wharton’s ETHAN FROME Booktuber mentioned: @Shellyish
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)The University Book Tag #booktube #tagtuesday #booktagHannahs Books2024-01-15 | Join me as I celebrate Tag Tuesday a bit early, fly my nerd flag proudly, and try to get pulled into neither political rants nor the “Academia Aesthetic”--all while answering the University Book Tag.
Books and Authors Discussed: DAYSWORK by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel (about Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorne, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Robert Lowell) UNSPEAKABLE: THE STORY OF JUNIUS WILSON by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner THE PASSION and SEXING THE CHERRY by Jeanette Winterson JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte THE ADVENTURES OF MISS BARBARA PYM by Paula Byrne DEPLETION AND ABUNDANCE: LIFE ON THE NEW HOME FRONT by Sharon Astyk DEAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS by Julie Schumacher WILLA CATHER AND THE POLITICS OF CRITICISM by Joan Acocella Ilan Pappe and other Jewish Israeli “New Historians”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Historians THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE by Rashid Khalili PALESTINE: A FOUR THOUSAND YEAR HISTORY by Nur Masalha COMMITTED: REMEMBERING NATIVE KINSHIP IN AND BEYOND INSTITUTIONS by Susan Burch (Free Kindle edition: amzn.to/3vAtlcP) THE EQUIVALENTS: A STORY OF ART, FRIENDSHIP, AND LIBERATION IN THE 1960S by Maggie Doherty
TAG QUESTIONS: 1. Etymologically, the word university is derived from the Latin “universitas magistrorum et scholarium,” meaning a “community of teachers and scholars.” What was the last book you read written by two or more writers in coordination? 2. In 1088, the University of Bologna saw the advent of the university as we recognize it today. What is your favorite/most recently read novel set in Italy? 3. University study usually involves a significant change of residence or lifestyle. What is your favorite book/series focusing on an immediate change of residence? 4. The 21st-century university student is expected to fork out tens of thousands in order to breach a university’s sun-gilt facilities. Name a book that cost you an exorbitant amount in exchange for little reward. 5. Universities and their attached student unions boast innumerable societies that gather zealots of everything from badminton to beard trimming to bardolatry. Name your favorite book that crafts or envisions a new or alternate society. 6. What is your favorite novel set within the walls of a university campus? 7. Universities are touted as bastions of free thought and uninhibited expression. Name a book you’ve read that is produced by someone with whom you fundamentally disagree on the subject but you like because of the eloquence with which it is written. 8. Universities pride themselves on cherishing outpourings from previously silenced or oppressed minorities. Name a favorite book written by someone from an underrepresented group. 9. University study can be riddled with dense impenetrable scholarly tomes. What is your favorite piece of interpretive nonfiction written by an academic?
Books Mentioned: 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Portrait of a Lady by Henry James The Barsetshire series by Anthony Trollope Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Booktubers Mentioned: Sarah @HardcoverHearts Her #84ccrnyd video: youtu.be/fknvhqwehh0?si=Gs4mDHaMs8jwkoiM (And two booktubers I allude to but do not name: @Shellyish @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711)
Tag Questions: 1. How many books do you plan to read in 2024? 2. Name some books that you didn’t get to in 2023 but want to make a priority in 2024. 3. What genre do you want to read more of? 4. Name some non-book-related goals for 2024. 5. What’s a book you’ve had forever that you still need to read? 6. One word or phrase describing 2024: _____________ The original version of this tag was created by @Bookables youtu.be/1DnIOkVX_Xk
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Willa Cather, Gender, and SexualityHannahs Books2023-12-15 | Join me for the final video in my eight-night celebration of the life and works of Willa Cather. Today I'll talk about how three different nonfiction authors have written about Cather's gender and sexuality.
Books discussed: The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa Holmstead Willa Cather: Queering America by Marilee Lindemann Long Road from Red Cloud: Life Lessons from Willa Cather by Betty Jean Steinshouer.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather with Brian of Bookish!Hannahs Books2023-12-13 | Join me as I talk about Willa Cather's final novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl with my very special guest Brian, of the channel @BookishTexan --as I continue this year's celebration of Hannah's Bookukkah.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)The Professors House by Willa Cather with Ros of Scallydandling about the Books!Hannahs Books2023-12-12 | Join me as I talk about Willa Cather's novel The Professor's House with my very special guest Ros, of the channel @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 --as I continue this year's celebration of Hannah's Bookukkah.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)The Lost Lady by Willa CatherHannahs Books2023-12-11 | Join me as I talk about Willa Cather's novel The Lost Lady, which I had the pleasure of buddy reading with Sarah of the excellent channel @HardcoverHearts--as I continue this year's celebration of Hannah's Bookukkah.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)My Antonia by Willa Cather with Shawn the Book Maniac!Hannahs Books2023-12-10 | Join me as I talk about Willa Cather's novel My Antonia with my very special guest Shawn, of the channel @shawnbreathesbooks to continue this year's celebration of Hannah's Bookukkah.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)O Pioneers! by Willa Cather with Kim from Middle of the Book March!Hannahs Books2023-12-09 | Join me as I talk about Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers! with my very special guest Kim, of the channel @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH and continue this year's celebration of Hannah's Bookukkah.
FIND ME ELSEWHERE: Voxer: hannahsbooks Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/hannahsbooks1 Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)The Lives of Willa Cather, during Hannahs BookukkahHannahs Books2023-12-08 | Join me as I talk about the life and afterlife of Willa Cather as I celebrate this year’s special “Willa-thon” during Hannah’s Bookukkah.
Biographies on my shelf: Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice by Sharon O’Brien (1987) Willa Cather: A Literary Life by James Woodress (1987) Willa Cather: Double Lives by Hermione Lee (1989/ preface 2017) Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World by Janis Stout (2000) Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor (2023)
Also mentioned in this video: The Selected Letters of Willa Cather edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art with a forward by Stephen Tennant Willa Cather: Queering America by Marilee Lindemann (I will discuss Lindeman’s book and a few additional books about Cather in more detail later in this series of videos.)