Jay Shay | Sunday Reads, August 1, 2021 (not so mega edition but still too much of a mega edition) @JayShayy | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Sunday Reads, August 1, 2021

Emancipation Day, (August 1) commemorates the day in 1834, when Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect across the British Empire.
cbc.ca/news/canada/emancipation-day-celebrations-canada-1.6124826
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/emancipation-day-bc-1.6123010

Brian @ Bookish’s 100th Saturday Hodgepodge video (Q&A):
youtu.be/KuUVP6gK05k


Steve Donoghue's non-reaction to the Booker prize, spread over several videos:

'The Inter Rail/Euro Rail Book Tag'
youtu.be/LIiMALEvH1A

"The Nobel Prize in Literature Tag'
youtu.be/j1eQzCzG36s

'A July 2021 MegaStuff Video' (stuffed FULL of content) & his brief thoughts on the Booker noms he has read…
youtu.be/-rx6fFUXK20

HELLSAPOPIN (1941 film adaptation of Broadway musical)
Starring Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson with Martha Raye, Shemp Howard and others.
Free on YouTube, due to ongoing legal wranglings meaning it hasn't been released anywhere else):
youtu.be/c2TOriWWSLE


SWEATPANT BOOTS (I'm sure Iceland is lovely, I'm just here for the funk beats):
youtu.be/-RR_D9_laZk

Linoleum Knife (Dave White& Alonso Duralde's podcast of the cinema):
directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/linoleumknife

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Books!

Flappers & Philosophers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1920
‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’
‘Benediction’
‘Dalrymple Goes Wrong’

The Mermaid of Black Conch
Monique Roffey
2020

The Library Book
Susan Orleans
2018

Wee Free Men
(Tiffany Aching #1, Discworld #30)
by Terry Pratchett
2003

H.M.S. Surprise
(Aubrey-Maturin #3)
Patrick O’Brian
1973

Feel Free
Zadie Smith
2018

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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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