Hannahs Books | Reads and Rambles, 25 August 2023 @HannahsBooks | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In which I discuss what I’ve been reading--and not reading--lately.
Books Discussed:
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner #FaulknerinAugust
George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes (daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes)
The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life by Clare Carlisle
My book review about George Eliot: openlettersreview.com/posts/the-marriage-question-by-clare-carlisle
(If you are interested in trying your hand at writing a formal book review, you’ll find no better mentor than @stevedonoghue.)
Booktubers mentioned:
@cathiegrimm
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In which I discuss what I’ve been reading--and not reading--lately.
Books Discussed:
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner #FaulknerinAugust
George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes (daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes)
The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life by Clare Carlisle
My book review about George Eliot: openlettersreview.com/posts/the-marriage-question-by-clare-carlisle
(If you are interested in trying your hand at writing a formal book review, you’ll find no better mentor than @stevedonoghue.)
Booktubers mentioned:
@cathiegrimm
Support my channel: ko-fi.com/hannahsbooks
Voxer: hannahsbooks
Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hannahsbooks1
Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)
![Books about Grief (and a brief personal update) [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/byB6TiHQzIs/hqdefault.jpg "Books about Grief (and a brief personal update) [CC]
In which I catch you up on my absence from Booktube as of late, and tell you about a couple of books I read this week.
Pain over Joy Tag https://youtu.be/B5DKQBS_CqA
#MaybeMidrash
Reading for Pride month
Books mentioned:
A VERY EASY DEATH by Simone de Beauvoir (who quite often called just “Beauvoir”)
THE MADNESS OF GRIEF by Richard Coles
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![READING SCHEDULE: Leo Tolstoys War and Peace [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cAsn8wt48Dc/hqdefault.jpg "READING SCHEDULE: Leo Tolstoys War and Peace [CC]
Join me and some other amazing readers as we work our way through Tolstoy’s WAR AND PEACE! Pick up any translation you like. The schedule I will be following is:
Finish by:
3/14 Volume 1, Part 1
3/21 Volume 1, Part 2
3/28 Volume 1, Part 3
4/04 Volume 2, Parts 1 and 2
4/11 Volume 2, Part 3
4/18 Volume 2, Parts 4 and 5
4/25 Volume 3, Part 1
5/02 Volume 3, Part 2
5/09 Volume 3, Part 3
5/16 Volume 4, Parts 1 and 2
5/23 Volume 4, Parts 3 and 4
5/30 Epilogue, Part 1 and 2
Popular Translations:
Constance Garnett 1904
Louise and Alymer Maude 1923
Rosemary Edmunds 1957
Ann Dunningham 1968
Anthony Briggs 2005
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky 2007
Maude updated by Amy Mandelker 2010
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![The A Tag [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cJ-9kSuYy0k/hqdefault.jpg "The A Tag [CC]
In which I celebrate Tag Tuesday (well, at least symbolically) by doing the first installment in the series of alphabet tags created by Jim.
Welcome to the roaring Brood X cicadas you can hear in the background.
Original tag was created by Jim at the channel Jims books reading & stuff https://youtu.be/xeMhong8g8c
Jim was kind enough to tag me.
Booktubers etc. Mentioned:
@saintdonoghue
Sarah at @HardcoverHearts
Jason at @OldBluesChapterandVerse
#JaneAustenJuly
Other Videos Mentioned:
My discussion of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye https://youtu.be/kW-10ysJGY8
My reading of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor https://youtu.be/cnorf958HFU
Books Mentioned:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild
Kerry Greenwood’s Phyrne Fisher mysteries
Island Home by Tim Winton
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Austen Years by Rachel Cohen
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jessmyn Ward
Gilgamesh
Beowulf
The Hebrew Bible
Passing by Michael Korda
My Written Reviews Mentioned:
Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild: https://openlettersreview.com/posts/rebel-cinderella-by-adam-hochschild
Austen Years by Rachel Cohen: https://openlettersreview.com/posts/austen-years-by-rachel-cohen
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous: hsttps://openlettersreview.com/posts/becoming-duchess-goldblatt-a-memoir-by-anonymous
The Prompts:
1. A is for America. What do you consider the Great American Novel?
2. A is for arc. Which character in literature has the most interesting character arc?
A is for Abby, this is not a prompt, but some of you have asked for more footage of our beagle Abby in these videos.
3. A is for Australia. What was the last book you read by an Australian author.
4. A is for Austen. What do you plan to read for Jane Austen July?
5. A is for automobile. What is your favourite literary automobile?
6. A is for anonymous. What is your favourite book or poem published anonymously.
7. A is for autobiography. What was the last autobiography you read?
8. A is for audiobooks. Do you consider listening to an audiobook as reading?
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![The Book Postscript Tag [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d5QrADjT9G4/hqdefault.jpg "The Book Postscript Tag [CC]
In which I celebrate #TagTuesday by responding to The Book Postscript Tag—just a little on the late side…
Tag created by @mementomoriadam
I was tagged by Catherine @takingteawithcatherine
I tag Brian @BookishTexan and Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 —although I am so behind on Booktube that they may have already done the tag and if not, they may not want to review the past year when we are already well into 2022…
REVIEWS OF BOOKS MENTIONED:
The Latinist by Mark Prins:
https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/the-latinist-a-novel
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway:
https://www.ronslate.com/the-annotated-mrs-dalloway-by-virginia-woolf-edited-with-an-introduction-and-notes-by-merve-emre/
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson:
https://harvardreview.org/book-review/my-monticello/
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans:
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/the-office-of-historical-corrections-by-danielle-evans
Every Day the River Changes by Jordan Salama:
https://www.ronslate.com/on-every-day-the-river-changes-a-journey-down-the-magdalena-by-jordan-salama/
Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit:
https://www.ronslate.com/on-orwells-roses-essays-by-rebecca-solnit/
OTHER BOOKS & AUTHORS MENTIONED:
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanathi
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Richard Wright
FAVORITE MEMORIES & VIDEOS MENTIONED:
Visit to @saintdonoghue
Critique of the big Philip Roth bio:
https://youtu.be/-dd-N_FVUKE
@shawnbreathesbooks and the group reading of my book:
https://youtu.be/EKTP-eigg9s
My reading of Flannery O’Connor’s story “Everything that Rises must Converge”:
https://youtu.be/gMx5kqalxgE
How I wrap my headscarves:
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![Reads and Rambles: 13 September 2021 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/drsprlCoUWY/hqdefault.jpg "Reads and Rambles: 13 September 2021 [CC]
In which I talk about television, portrayals of cancel culture, the position of adjunct professors, the frequency of unresolved endings in contemporary novels, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, the idea of connecting our lives to literature, and Eudora Welty.
My review of The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway: https://www.ronslate.com/the-annotated-mrs-dalloway-by-virginia-woolf-edited-with-an-introduction-and-notes-by-merve-emre/
Books, articles, and television shows mentioned:
The Chair on Netflix
David French piece in the New York Times Book Review about Andrew Sullivan’s essays
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, edited by Merve Emre
The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty…
and Doherty’s review essay in The Nation about adjunct lit
The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, with an introduction by Eudora Welty
Booktubers very, very briefly mentioned: @saintdonoghue, Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868, and @shawnbreathesbooks.
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