Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Monday Reads, August 15, 2021
Books Mentioned:
Gulliver's 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
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:
librivox.org/the-man-from-glengarry-by-ralph-connor
Shawn the Maniac’s background video on the novel:
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.
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 Blue's Chapter and Verse
@A Cruel Reader's 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 Rainey's channel)
9/18: Henry IV Part 1 (on -- predictably -- Steve's channel)
9/25: The Winter's Tale (on Lukas's [ACR’sT] channel)
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I've turned off my comments (at least for a little while). The comments I've gotten in the past are great. I'm just neurotic guy and have been stressed over keeping up my end. Want to hear more? Check out this video:
youtu.be/9lg2c0f-doo
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Monday Reads, August 15, 2021
Books Mentioned:
Gulliver's 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
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:
librivox.org/the-man-from-glengarry-by-ralph-connor
Shawn the Maniac’s background video on the novel:
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.
youtube.com/c/TheCodeXCantina
***
Shaketember 2021!!!
Join Lukas, Jason, Rainey and Steve as they bring a full month of discussion about Shakespeare in the month of September!
@Old Blue's Chapter and Verse
@A Cruel Reader's 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 Rainey's channel)
9/18: Henry IV Part 1 (on -- predictably -- Steve's channel)
9/25: The Winter's Tale (on Lukas's [ACR’sT] channel)
----
I've turned off my comments (at least for a little while). The comments I've gotten in the past are great. I'm just neurotic guy and have been stressed over keeping up my end. Want to hear more? Check out this video:
youtu.be/9lg2c0f-doo
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(Video 427)
