Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join me this Tag Tuesday as I answer the "This or That?" book tag, created in celebration of People April—a Booktube celebration of life writing (biography, memoir, etc.).
This tag was created by Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebooks and Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks.
OTHER BOOKTUBERS AND BOOKTUBE EVENTS MENTIONED:
#MiseryMay -- Hosts @GunpowderFictionPlot & @GemofBooks (Just to be clear, when I said this event was "totally created for me," I only meant that it fits perfectly with my own tastes!)
Aaron Facer @aaronfacer
Steve Donoghue@saintdonoghue
My review of Six Walks: ronslate.com/on-six-walks-in-the-footsteps-of-henry-david-thoreau-by-ben-shattuck
My review of Every Day the River Changes: ronslate.com/on-every-day-the-river-changes-a-journey-down-the-magdalena-by-jordan-salama
PROMPTS:
1) Big, fat and detailed biographies or short and succinct biographies?
2) Celebrity memoirs or average Joe memoirs?
3) Complete correspondence or selected letters?
4) Memoirs written when the events are fresh or memoirs written with hindsight?
5) Gossipy biographies or scholarly biographies?
6) Diaries of ordinary life or diaries of extraordinary events?
7) Arty memoirs or sporting memoirs?
8) Gritty autobiographical writing or inspirational autobiographical writing?
9) Biographies of historical figures or biographies of contemporary figures?
10) Memoirs of happy days or memoirs of tragic days?
Elisabeth’s BONUS prompt: The Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys (over 4000 pages or 116 hours and 16 minutes of audiobook) or Selections from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (which can be as short as 120 pages or 3 hours and 55 minutes of audiobook)?
BOOKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED:
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary Dearborn
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
Red Comment: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena by Jordan Salama
Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story by Jordan Salama
Madeleine’s World by Brian Hall
Samuel Pepys’s Diary
SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL:
Patreon: patreon.com/hannahsbooks
Kofi tip jar: ko-fi.com/hannahsbooks
Or use the Super Thanks button right under each YouTube video
READ MY BOOK:
Unspeakable amzn.to/47HdMh7
FIND ME ELSEWHERE:
Voxer: hannahsbooks
Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hannahsbooks1
Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)
Join me this Tag Tuesday as I answer the "This or That?" book tag, created in celebration of People April—a Booktube celebration of life writing (biography, memoir, etc.).
This tag was created by Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebooks and Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks.
OTHER BOOKTUBERS AND BOOKTUBE EVENTS MENTIONED:
#MiseryMay -- Hosts @GunpowderFictionPlot & @GemofBooks (Just to be clear, when I said this event was "totally created for me," I only meant that it fits perfectly with my own tastes!)
Aaron Facer @aaronfacer
Steve Donoghue@saintdonoghue
My review of Six Walks: ronslate.com/on-six-walks-in-the-footsteps-of-henry-david-thoreau-by-ben-shattuck
My review of Every Day the River Changes: ronslate.com/on-every-day-the-river-changes-a-journey-down-the-magdalena-by-jordan-salama
PROMPTS:
1) Big, fat and detailed biographies or short and succinct biographies?
2) Celebrity memoirs or average Joe memoirs?
3) Complete correspondence or selected letters?
4) Memoirs written when the events are fresh or memoirs written with hindsight?
5) Gossipy biographies or scholarly biographies?
6) Diaries of ordinary life or diaries of extraordinary events?
7) Arty memoirs or sporting memoirs?
8) Gritty autobiographical writing or inspirational autobiographical writing?
9) Biographies of historical figures or biographies of contemporary figures?
10) Memoirs of happy days or memoirs of tragic days?
Elisabeth’s BONUS prompt: The Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys (over 4000 pages or 116 hours and 16 minutes of audiobook) or Selections from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (which can be as short as 120 pages or 3 hours and 55 minutes of audiobook)?
BOOKS AND AUTHORS MENTIONED:
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary Dearborn
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
Red Comment: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena by Jordan Salama
Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story by Jordan Salama
Madeleine’s World by Brian Hall
Samuel Pepys’s Diary
SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL:
Patreon: patreon.com/hannahsbooks
Kofi tip jar: ko-fi.com/hannahsbooks
Or use the Super Thanks button right under each YouTube video
READ MY BOOK:
Unspeakable amzn.to/47HdMh7
FIND ME ELSEWHERE:
Voxer: hannahsbooks
Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hannahsbooks1
Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)
