Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Covid Ketchup Tag
A tag by Allen @ Big Hard Books and Classics to catch up with how we are with the pandemic wherever you are:
youtu.be/ako1J8AeYcQ
Ros @ Scallydandling about the books' version:
youtu.be/9Gg6y7DEEHU
Sonja @ an enthusiastic reader:
youtu.be/iHGOkRqI2qE
Steve Donoghue:
youtu.be/ntiEl6g9OlA
James Holder:
youtu.be/qUuG-RNa8Wo
QUESTIONS
1 When did you first hear about Covid-19?
2 How are things in your neck of the woods? What's open or not?
3 Beach reading - any books you are looking forward to reading after Covid?
4 What's a book you have read in these last months directly or indirectly because of Covid?
5 What is the best video you have made or seen during Covid?
6 Are you going to have the vaccine?
7 Tag people.
*YouTube randomly assigned the thumbnail, but since it fit so well, I decided to keep it.*
(Video 398)
The Covid Ketchup Tag
A tag by Allen @ Big Hard Books and Classics to catch up with how we are with the pandemic wherever you are:
youtu.be/ako1J8AeYcQ
Ros @ Scallydandling about the books' version:
youtu.be/9Gg6y7DEEHU
Sonja @ an enthusiastic reader:
youtu.be/iHGOkRqI2qE
Steve Donoghue:
youtu.be/ntiEl6g9OlA
James Holder:
youtu.be/qUuG-RNa8Wo
QUESTIONS
1 When did you first hear about Covid-19?
2 How are things in your neck of the woods? What's open or not?
3 Beach reading - any books you are looking forward to reading after Covid?
4 What's a book you have read in these last months directly or indirectly because of Covid?
5 What is the best video you have made or seen during Covid?
6 Are you going to have the vaccine?
7 Tag people.
*YouTube randomly assigned the thumbnail, but since it fit so well, I decided to keep it.*
(Video 398)
![He Knew He was Right | Anthony Trollope | Review
He Knew He was Right
by Anthony Trollope
1869
My two part review of Trollopes novel - this was the best way for me to get this done as I was preparing for National Novel Writing Month and explains why it took me so long to actually post it.
[and after uploading it, it took me another two weeks to actually publish the video - I am working in slow motion at the moment]
Im 25 chapters into Trollopes Lady Anna! [No I finished Lady Anna about 2 weeks ago and still need to stop and do a review of the book, which I loved]
Here is Katie @ Books and Things Victober TBR, where she mentions shell be reading Trollopes Lady Anna in October. Katie is Booktubes resident expert on all things Victorian literature and a great source for reading ideas:
https://youtu.be/g-iakNZKgM8
A playlist of Steve Donoghues Lonely Trollope Read-along, reading a selection of Anthony Trollopes stand-alone novels in 2020:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmehKxjHxTTkUQuOFN2GQQfRgfaGupM2N
(Video #354) He Knew He was Right | Anthony Trollope | Review](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TkEGh7ViCrg/mqdefault.jpg)
![Monday Reads, July 26, 2021
Monday Reads, July 26, 2021
Hate speech on Booktube
Juan @ Plagued by Visions
https://youtu.be/yWMPX2txWYE
Also his The Books & Life Tag (One Take Edition):
https://youtu.be/B_AFEBl47RA
Books & Media Discussed:
Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt
2008
Just North of Nowhere
Lawrence Santoro
2007
If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
1974
Flappers & Philosophers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1920
I didnt talk about this at all, which is for the best because I went a little long. I read out loud to myself
‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ and part of ‘Benediction’ this week.
The Mermaid of Black Conch
Monique Roffey
2020
The Library Book
Susan Orleans
2018
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
Susan Orlean
1998
Adaptation (director Spike Jonze, writer: Charlie Kaufman)
2002
The Booktube Spin #3
Rick MacDonnell
Choose 20 books you havent gotten to; number them 1-20 and then Rick spins his electronic wheel and whatever number comes up - you read that book somewhere in July, August and/or September.)
His list of 20 books for Booktube Spin #3, My All-Classics BookTube Spin List:
https://youtu.be/83dSoDDHHs8
The results of the Spin, BookTube Spin #3 Result ... with a Surprise!
(Come up with your own 20 books and play along! The rules say you would need to post your list somewhere before June 24th. But rules are for suckers - and for people who read rules before they decide to do stuff. Just dont watch the results videos before you choose your 20 books, at least thats what I have done.)
https://youtu.be/90oI5hDzn30
Also his cute apology for posting early! BookTube Spin #3 is Here. Also, Im an Idiot.
https://youtu.be/Nn8Iji4FnMg
Ive turned off my comments (at least for a little while). The comments Ive gotten in the past are great. [SADLY IRONIC when I reflect on this particular video.] Im just neurotic guy and have been stressed over keeping up my end. Want to hear more? Check out this video:
https://youtu.be/9lg2c0f-doo
(Video 423) Monday Reads, July 26, 2021](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TlJtzeXpcYY/mqdefault.jpg)








