Hannahs Books | New Year's Day Reading and the New Year's Book Tag @HannahsBooks | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Happy New Year! (Filmed yesterday.)
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
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Happy New Year! (Filmed yesterday.)
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
READ MY BOOK:
Unspeakable amzn.to/47HdMh7
SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL:
Patreon: patreon.com/hannahsbooks
Kofi tip jar: ko-fi.com/hannahsbooks
Or use the Super Thanks button under each YouTube video
FIND ME ELSEWHERE:
Voxer: hannahsbooks
Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hannahsbooks1
Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)
![The Miss Marple Book Tag [CC] #MarchMysteryMadness](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oerTgtciMoU/hqdefault.jpg "The Miss Marple Book Tag [CC] #MarchMysteryMadness
In which I celebrate Tag Wednesday yet again and mark the end of March Mystery Madness by answering The Miss Marple Book Tag.
Tag created by James Holder https://youtu.be/Y2CZFChfu2c
I saw it on the channel @BookishTexan https://youtu.be/v6drDvYafDM
I tag:
Beating Around the Books https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC61bA8SxHgoE9O9JgAQouQw
Bob the Bookerer
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo9wDCo3u3J5Sky9skhVkXA
Rosie Cockshutt
https://www.youtube.com/user/ThisIsRosieC
Pete’s Pensive https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYwFrLvg8GHuvFxbLMfXbsw
Drawn to Stories
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQZDyutx8Ry0Gzr0z8jVisw
Gina Stanyer Books
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdKMS-gIm7uxqsSPBHXwWKg
Books with Elvis
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qlW3ek-Bat1MEljG5eTDQ
Revenant Reads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2swnrGSw9D17Ux6E4h_Uog
My narration of “Why I Live at the P.O.” https://youtu.be/bZmb4hEnGV4
Books Mentioned:
The classic Miss Marple books were written by Agatha Christie
“Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlett Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
Big Money by John Dos Passos
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Emma by Jane Austen
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Prompts:
1.The Murder at the Vicarage: A book about, or set in, a small town or village.
2.The Body in the Library: A book with a pivotal scene set in a library.
3.The Moving Finger: A book in which the protagonist is trolled, harassed, subject to a rumor campaign, or falsely accused.
4.A Murder is Announced: A book in which there is a sympathetic depiction of a Marxist, or equivalent.
5. They Do It with Mirrors: A book in which performance plays a major role.
6. A Pocket Full of Rye: A book based upon or inspired by a nursery rhyme, fairy tale, myth, or other work of fiction.
7. 4.50 From Paddington: A book in which more than two suitors pursue the main protagonist.
8. The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side: A book about a changing world.
9. A Caribbean Mystery: A book about, or set in, the Caribbean.
10. At Bertram’s Hotel: A book about artifice.
11. Nemesis: A book featuring a quest.
12. Sleeping Murder: A book in which the past haunts the present.
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![Night Two of Hannahs Book-ukkah: The Books and Life Tag [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/olLIwIFK_1U/hqdefault.jpg "Night Two of Hannahs Book-ukkah: The Books and Life Tag [CC]
In which I consider the role of books and reading in my life as I answer “The Books and Life Tag” created by Steve Donoghue.
Tag created by @saintdonoghue
The prompts:
1. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being a normal person and 10 being the late Harold Bloom, how much are books and reading a part of your life?
2. Where does your personal library stand right now in relation to the rest of your life? Do you have more books now than you ever have? Fewer? How has your library changed?
3. Take a mental step back and ask yourself: what is the most likely first bookish impression a newcomer would have in your home?
4. How often (if ever, gulp) do you clean or re-organize your books?
5. On average, how many books do you acquire in a given week?
6. What song is your current ear-worm?
7. What percentage of your self-control do you retain in a well-stocked bookshop?
8. Do you ever feel the need to take a break from books? If so, what form does it take?
9. When you meet a new person, how long does it take you to bring up books?
10. Have you given any thought/made any provisions for your personal library after you croak?
11. Are you known among your friends & loved ones for your weird and probably unhealthy relationship with books?
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![Reads and Rambles, 24 March 2021 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pPdaORWhvjc/hqdefault.jpg "Reads and Rambles, 24 March 2021 [CC]
In which I talk about what has been flying around my neighborhood this week as well as what has been on my reading docket.
David Attenborough on cicadas:
Cicada life cycles: https://youtu.be/tjLiWy2nT7U
Periodic cicadas: https://youtu.be/EWr8fzUz-Yw
Magazines and Newspapers:
Poets & Writers
New York Times Book Review
Books Mentioned:
John Keats: Poetry, Life & Landscapes by Suzie Grogan
Keats’ Odes: A Lover’s Discourse, by Anahid Nersessian
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller
My readings of Flannery OConnor:
A Good Man is Hard to Find: https://youtu.be/cnorf958HFU
Everything That Rises Must Converge: https://youtu.be/gMx5kqalxgE
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