1) Do you listen to music while you read? Is it a necessity? Why?
2) Is there a special kind of music you prefer when reading – rock, classical, jazz, etc.?
3) Is there a particular kind of music you would NEVER listen to when you read?
4) Do you read in silence? Is the quiet necessary? Why?
5) A scenario: you’re reading in a public place (a café, the park, on public transportation, in a plane), and someone begins playing music, or a live band begins to play. What’s your reaction?
6) Does it matter to you at all, whether music is playing or not?
Tags (If I've haven't tagged you, you can assume you are anyway):
1) Do you listen to music while you read? Is it a necessity? Why?
2) Is there a special kind of music you prefer when reading – rock, classical, jazz, etc.?
3) Is there a particular kind of music you would NEVER listen to when you read?
4) Do you read in silence? Is the quiet necessary? Why?
5) A scenario: you’re reading in a public place (a café, the park, on public transportation, in a plane), and someone begins playing music, or a live band begins to play. What’s your reaction?
6) Does it matter to you at all, whether music is playing or not?
Tags (If I've haven't tagged you, you can assume you are anyway):
'Tubers mentioned and tagged:
@anotherbibliophilereads
@M-J
@aaronfacer
@ReaDANculous
@TheGrapeJellyLibrary
@GhostReadersintheSky
@jennyjaybles
@MickHasReadABook
@apoetreadstowrite
@art.and.lit.matters
@TootightLautrec
@booksgurrsandpurrs
☘️🎸☘️Orbital, by Samantha HarveyBig Hard Books & Classics2025-07-27 | ...Framed by John Grisham & Jim McCloskey Buddy Read w/Reney @BeyondBookdBig Hard Books & Classics2025-07-24 | Here is Reney's review:
#tagtuesdayThe Ten Untouched Books Tag!Big Hard Books & Classics2025-07-20 | Ten Untouched Books Tag created Rainer @Rainierbooks
I was tagged by Greg @anotherbibliophilereads
There is only one prompt:
Present ten books from your shelves that have been there at least a year or more and present them. This is about creating awareness to read from our shelves, enhance sustainability and maybe even saving some bucks.
'Tubers mentioned and tagged:
@JamesRuchala
Brian @BookishTexan
Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
Roz @scallydandlingaboutthebooks
Patricia H.
@Maeve_EverReading
Reney @BeyondBooks-wt5il
@M-J
@NicolesBookishNook
#tagtuesdayT. S. Eliot Read-A-Thon AnnouncementBig Hard Books & Classics2025-07-18 | Event created by Thomas @art.and.lit.matters
Hosted by: Thomas @art.and.lit.matters Angelia @readandre-read Roy and Dr. Jennie @royreadsanything
Co-hosts: Pat @BookChatWithPat8668 Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebooks Aaron @aaronfacer Allen @hardbooks770 Hannah @HannahsBooks Jenny @jennyjaybles Bob @RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p Debs @RaynorReadsStuff Greg @anotherbibliophilereads Phillip @apoetreadstowrite Jen @poetrycrone Randy @LiterateTexan Thomas McCarthy Joe @TootightLautrec Wes @Wes_LeVoLibrary
T.S. Eliot in August : Announcing a BookTube Group Reading Event Books, Art, Crime and Popular Culture @art.and.lit.matters
Jack @ramblingraconteur1616Reading from Ulysses (8:731 Gabbler) The Davy Byrnes Pub SceneBig Hard Books & Classics2025-07-01 | This is from the Bloomsday Compilation that Roy put together:
1. BBQ Time: Pick a favorite author. They are inviting you to a BBQ to announce their newest work. What do you hope they are announcing? What are you bringing to share?
2. Road Trip: Pick a real world setting from a recent (or not so recent) read. Where would that road trip take you?
3. Camping: Do you rough it? Say, tent and a sleeping bag. Or do you require amenities. Will you read more than usual?
4. Festivals: You're attending a Booktube festival where dressing as your one of your favorite literary character is the only requirement. Who do you go dressed as and why?
5. Slice of Life: What is something others may consider simple or mundane but is something you can't see a summer without?
6. Scary Story: Which author would you invite to go camping with you knowing you would want to hear the scariest story they can tell around the camp fire?
7. First Love/Summer Crush: A romantic interest during the summer months often leads to a bittersweet ending or a lasting impact. Which do you prefer to read? How does the age of the characters affect this opinion?
8. Nostalgia: What book or books instill in you an overwhelming sense of summer nostalgia? (They don't necessarily have to take place during summer, but rather, they somehow are attached to summer for you.)
9. Summer Stories: What is a book (or books) you would recommend where the summer time is the primary focus?
Roz @scallydandlingaboutthebooks was also mentioned!The Times They Are A Changing!Big Hard Books & Classics2025-06-11 | ...The Sods Law Tag! #tagtuesdayBig Hard Books & Classics2025-06-11 | The Sod's Law Tag
✌️🤘🤞PDX Vlog | Fullers Coffee Shop | Fleet Week | China TownBig Hard Books & Classics2025-06-07 | ...Starting The Dream Songs by John Berryman ReadalongBig Hard Books & Classics2025-06-01 | So far, here are the content creators in the Voxer group:
In her video, Nicole said, "This is my first tag video, and it's about high school required reading lists!! This is an original tag video reflecting on the books we read (or were supposed to read) in high school. I've listed the prompts below in case you want to do this tag video yourself. Be sure to tag me in your video so that I can watch yours too!"
The Prompts: 1. High School Crush: Name a book you were assigned in high school and LOVED at the time Have you re-read it, and did it hold up? 2. Gym Class: Name a book you were assigned that you hated. Have or would you give it a second chance? 3. Locker Combo: Is there a book you remember having to read… but can’t actually remember? 4. CliffNotes: Was there a book you were SUPPOSED to read but didn’t? 5. Electives: Did you read “just for fun?” What book(s) were you reading outside of your assignments? 6. Rebound: What book would you replace from the typical assigned reading list ? 7. Teacher’s Pet: What book got you excited about reading for class? 8. Study Hall: What was the most difficult book you read in High School? (i.e. The one you spent the most time studying.) 9. Nails on a Chalkboard: What was the book that made you groan when you found out you’d have to read it AGAIN? 10. Extra Credit: What book do you think should be added on to every HS reading list? 11. BFFs: Tag some people you’d like to hear answers from.
I'm tagging anyone who is watching who would like to do this tag, and I'm also tagging the following people:
1. HOW TO LIVE LIFE TODAY - If there was only time to read one more book before the world ended, which book would you read?
2. HOW TO READ FOR YOURSELF - Name two books which had one or more of the Maquis de Lau (MLP) effects on you
a) To recognise what we have in common with people who seem different than us or lived at different times.
b) To have our own thoughts and emotions echoed and therefore to feel validated and less alone
c) To read about an idea or emotion and recognise it as one you have experienced but never articulated
d) To draw attention to something we had previously ignored or failed to recognise so that we see the world differently thereafter
3. HOW TO TAKE YOUR TIME - If you had to spend a week in a cabin in the woods, with no phone, television, radio or internet, and no transport except your two feet, and there was a hardback copy of Proust's In Search of Lost Time in that cabin, would you try reading the book or would you do something else and what would that be?
4. HOW TO SUFFER SUCCESSFULLY - Is it true for you that some kind of suffering or unhappiness is probably what made you a reader (or writer)?
5. HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR EMOTIONS - Think of any book you recently read and enjoyed. In 100 words or less, describe what you think was good about it without using adverbs or adjectives
6. HOW TOE A GOOD FRIEND - Think of a book where friendship is central and discuss whether Proust's principle about 100% honesty being bad for friendship is true or not
7. HOW TO OPEN YOUR EYES - Is there a book that 'opened your eyes' to the beauty of a different genre or different type of writing or different subject matter?
8. HOW TO BE HAPPY IN LOVE - Do you have any personal pointers to help a flagging reader refresh their love for reading?
9. HOW TO PUT BOOKS DOWN - Is there a writer you once considered a kind of oracle, or a book you once thought you would always adore but over time you have grown to see the author/book differently?
'Tubers Mentioned and/or Tagged:
Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
Greg @anotherbibliophilereads
Roy @royreadsanything
Roz @scallydandlingaboutthebooks
Thomas @art.and.lit.matters
Debs @RaynorReadsStuff
Jenny @jennyjaybles
MJ @M-J
Randy @LiterateTexan
Phillip @apoetreadstowrite
Greg @GhostReadersintheSky
And: Y.O.U! ☘️🎉🎸The Re-Read or Not Re-Read! TagBig Hard Books & Classics2025-05-16 | Original Tag by:
Candy's says in her video (see link below): If you want to take part in this conversation you can use the hashtag #tbrfunornot and tag me so I know you did a video. If you wanted to use prompts around this conversation here are a few to consider.
1: How many books are currently or normally on your Tbr?
2: How do you chose tbr books and have you ever gamified your tbr, e.g. prompt jars, tbr games?
3: Do you have reading areas of focus to chose books for? If yes how many?
4: Does a tbr help you focus?
5: Do you suffer from the book noise of a tbr?
6: Do you give your tbr a time limit and does a tbr make you stress about reading quick enough?
7: Do you have “rebellion syndrome” not wanting to read a book because you put it on your tbr and now feel you have to read it?
8: Do you keep books on your tbr until they are read or swap the tbr around regularly?
9: have you ever “killed a book” by having it on your tbr too long?
10: Do you have a tick list for your tbr to tick off books as you read them?
11: what one change do you think would help your tbr be more fun?
12: final conclusion…..TBR’S fun or not? And tag people:
I tag:
Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
Greg @anotherbibliophilereads
Randy @LiterateTexan
@jennyjaybles
@NicolesBookishNook
Debs @RaynorReadsStuff
Roy @royreadsanything
Thomas @art.and.lit.matters
Landa @MyIntrovertedBookishCorner
@aaronfacer
@kevintowle9665
Justin @TriumphalReads
@JessBookgirlTV
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebooks
And? Y.O.U!ISO Steinbeck at Powells City of Books 📚 Portland, ORBig Hard Books & Classics2025-05-07 | 'Tubers mentioned:
I have playlists on several Pychon novels 😎ReReading Carlos Castaneda (* Warning: * Drug Use *)Big Hard Books & Classics2025-04-24 | Randy Ray @LiterateTexan
Have YOU read Carlos Castaneda? Let's talk about him!The Books and Art Tag! #tagtuesdayBig Hard Books & Classics2025-04-22 | Original Tag Created by:
Thank you! ☘️Acid for the Children, by Flea #peopleaprilBig Hard Books & Classics2025-04-15 | ...The BookTube Belly Dance Tag! (*TRIGGER WARNING: Full-Frontal Nudity!*)Big Hard Books & Classics2025-04-12 | Original Tag Created by:
1. Do you like parties? Name a book with a big or small party in it.
2. What would you do to get the love of your life back? Name a book where a lost love is the center of the story. (Not a romance, that is too easy.)
3. Nick the narrator was a character in the story and the narrator, he really put you into the picture. Who is your favorite narrator?
4. What is some advice given to you in your younger and more vulnerable years that you’ve been turning over in your mind ever since.
5. Tom Buchanan is not a good man but it is done in a very subtle manner; Name a book that the character is not obviously bad but as you get to know him he is very, very bad.