Hannahs Books | Willa Cather's 150th Birthday Celebration, during Hannah's Bookukkah @HannahsBooks | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Welcome to Hannah's Bookukkah, featuring eight evenings in a row of fresh videos. This year, I'll spend the week reading and talking about twentieth-century American author Willa Cather. Join me!
My Willa Cather playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkLQE2gbz-5SvXb8RkCwROibErJUMq2f&si=zRlP8M65kxp1xyO3
David and Abe making latkes: youtu.be/FPo0oOMi1n8?si=S_c_diiQZiajmNX9
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Unspeakable amzn.to/47HdMh7
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Welcome to Hannah's Bookukkah, featuring eight evenings in a row of fresh videos. This year, I'll spend the week reading and talking about twentieth-century American author Willa Cather. Join me!
My Willa Cather playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkLQE2gbz-5SvXb8RkCwROibErJUMq2f&si=zRlP8M65kxp1xyO3
David and Abe making latkes: youtu.be/FPo0oOMi1n8?si=S_c_diiQZiajmNX9
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)
![The H Tag [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a-GlUewC54I/hqdefault.jpg "The H Tag [CC]
In which I consider Hardy, Hemingway, Hopper, and Harry Potter as I celebrate all things H in this great Booktube tag.
Tag created by the wonderful Jim and Books Reading and Stuff
https://youtu.be/eD2CQanYV-4
The Prompts:
H is for Harry Potter. Would you prefer to travel to Hogwarts in a flying car or on the Hogwarts Express?
H is for Horror. Why do kids love horror? (or here you could add your favorite horror titles)
H is for Hemingway. Hemingway or Fitzgerald?
H is for hardback. Do you prefer hardbacks or paperbacks?
H is for Hardy. Which is your favorite Thomas Hardy novel?
H is for hot. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere how are you coping with the heat?
H is for Hunger Games. Do you prefer the Hunger Games or Harry Potter?
H is for Honey. Pooh was addicted to honey. What is your sweet addiction?
H is for the Handmaids Tale. If youve read the book, what did you think of it?
H is for Hopper. What are your thoughts on the works of Edward Hopper, the American painter? (Feel free to add extra prompts, if you so wish.)
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![Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison: Considering the White Gaze [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bMGRE83pjv8/hqdefault.jpg "Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison: Considering the White Gaze [CC]
In which I cast my “gaze” on works in translation, on the politics of diverse reading and reviewing, and on the inherent conservatism of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. (The actual discussion of Invisible Man starts at 06:09.)
MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
NYTBR By the Book feature with the translator Margaret Jull Costa
Brian’s videos @BookishTexan
Comments by commenter extraordinaire Hester Dunlop
and by Jen @RememberedReads
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Alan @bighardbooks770
Margaret Pinard https://www.youtube.com/c/MargaretPinard
March of the Moderns
Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse
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![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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