Name: #176 Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross, a blubbering reaction @JayShayy
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#176 Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross, a blubbering reaction

Jay Shay 2024-10-19 | #176 Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross, a blubbering reaction

a note

Jay Shay 2022-08-11 | Jzy Shzy:
youtube.com/channel/UCydesla35aa9QFY7gde-7bA

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Since this is my last video on this channel, let me engage in some rambling here in the description box, my second favourite way to communicate on YouTube.

Thank you, thank you, thank you if you have tunned in for some or one of my videos - even more so if you commented when I allowed that. I have had trouble responding to comments but the comments have ALWAYS been great.

As always, my actions, while influenced by the outside world, are always a consequence of my own internal churn! I'm extremely happy and excited to be moving on... even though it is in a completely imaginary way that changes nothing except the inside of my head.

The videos that I've made and haven't already privated will stay up until I realize which ones are truly awful, problematic, wrong in some way that will hurt the universe. Oh, and I'll go and private my review of some Brandon Sanderson book that I did waaay back at the beginning of my channel which is not only terrible, but terribly tedious, and, due to the subject matter, has been clicked on an embarrassingly large number of times.

This feels like an appropriate length for me to ramble. If you have any questions or comments you will have to visit me over on the new channel. HA!

Yours sincerely,

Jay Shay

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A Third Kick at the GarbAugust Can!

Jay Shay 2022-08-01 | Where I try and fail again to make an acceptable GarbAugust video. The legendarily stinky Booktube event where we celebrate the lovely trash that readers love to rub all over their brains.

Put on by various booktubers but mostly issuing out of the mind of Olly @CriminOllyBlog .

His announcement video (which lists the many many co-hosts):
youtu.be/blUd8b30CPo

His latest video which I mention, ‘Why readers owe it to themselves to read TRASH - more thoughts on trashy books’:
youtu.be/coatMEO3ZzM

Check out the fun prompts and the many interesting videos he and fellow hosts have made debating trash!

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Book mentioned:

Split Infinity (Apprentice Adept #1)
Pier Anthony
1980

Blue Adept (Apprentice Adept #2)
Piers Anthony
1981

Juxtaposition (Apprentice Adept #3)
Piers Anthony
1982

(I'm sort of weird about Piers Anthony, so any review videos coming out of this many not be informative, but they might be utter train wrecks. If you go in for that sort of thing...)

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waffle # 7

Jay Shay 2022-08-01 | Scott!!! @GunpowderFictionPlot
His review of 'Hello Friend We Missed You':
youtu.be/udoGvTKbLWQ

The Books Mentioned:

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (Cat Sebastian - historical romance)
Winter’s Orbit (Everina Maxwell - space opera)
The White Rose, 3rd in the Chronicles of the Black Company (Glen Cook)
Hello Friend We Missed You (Richard Owain Roberts)
Hostage, Non-Fiction Comic (Guy Delisle)

The Haunting of House Hill (Shirley Jackson)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi German (William L. Shirer) (1960)
The Need for Words: Voice and the Text (Patsy Rodenburg)

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Here is a video of me reporting on my six-month trial without comments if you REALLY want to hear more about it:
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(Video 500)

(And trust me, you may not have noticed, but there was QUITE the extravaganza in this video celebrating the momentous event of me having cranked out 500 videos. Not all of those videos are public any more, but the grand majority, enough for you to get the idea. Happy 500 videos to me... Take my 'Thank you' video as my actual celebration.)

Hostage | Guy Delisle | Non-Fiction Comic Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-07-30 | Hostage
Guy Delisle
translated by Helge Dascher
2017

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Thank you.

Jay Shay 2022-07-21 | It's the day after surgery now, and I LIVE! I'm a bit sore, but so far so good. The next challenge is to be smart and let myself heal.

This video is probably self-indulgent but also let me say the stuff I don't think about saying as I rush through my life.

Thank you for watching.

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I Sometimes Think | Thomas Hardy | Poem Reading and Analysis

Jay Shay 2022-07-15 | A companion piece to my version of @MattWall 's 'What is Your Poetry? Tag'. Filmed months ago and rescued from the dusty folder on my computer. Apologies!

'I Sometimes Think'
from 'Late Lyrics and Earlier with many other verses' by Thomas Hardy
1922

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What is Your Poetry? Tag

Jay Shay 2022-07-15 | What is Your Poetry? Tag

The original tag by @MattWall
youtu.be/POewK6HROYA

@zoe_bee , her '100 Poems Challenge' announcement:
youtu.be/1-PcZ6mzf70

The Prompts:

1. Do you prefer metaphor or simile?

[Grammerly:

While both similes and metaphors are used to make comparisons, the difference between similes and metaphors comes down to a word. Similes use the words like or as to compare things—“Life is like a box of chocolates.” In contrast, metaphors directly state a comparison—“Love is a battlefield.”]

2. What is the most important element in a poem for you? Form / structure, meaning / feeing, sound / alliteration, assonance, consonance etc. you can’t say all! Lol

3. What is your favorite school / movement in poetry?

4. Since we see the world through a poets eyes, Does a poet have to live an interesting life for you to like their poetry

5. How does geography play into the poets you like, or does it at all?

[Apparently I don't care about geography cause I didn't answer.]

6. Whitman said, “To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Bukowski said, “to have great audiences, you need great poets.”
I said, “unless you have great places for these two to meet it doesn’t matter.” what’s your take?

7. Who do you think has advanced poetry the most?

8. Since the rise of the moderns and free form verse over the last 50 years and more currently the rise of instapoetry, what movements of poetry do you think the future holds?

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I tag all the beautiful poets in the world. And all the ugly and unpleasant ones too. I even tag the bastards who don't remember to tag anyone at the end of tag videos.

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waffle # 6

Jay Shay 2022-07-12 | Where I waffle in a noisy world. Hopefully you hear me over the din.

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Booktubers & their videos:

@zoe_bee , her '100 Poems Challenge' announcement:
youtu.be/1-PcZ6mzf70

@MattWall , his original 'What is Your Poetry? Tag':
youtu.be/POewK6HROYA

His wrap up of the challenge!
youtu.be/-jKkxEERfaQ

Books mentioned:

The White Rose
(The Black Company #3)
Glen Cook

The Scarlet Letter
Nataniel Hawthorn

The Need for Words: Voice and the Text
Patsy Rodenburg

Winter's Orbit
Everina Maxwell

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(Video 495)

Understanding Comics | Comics Review

Jay Shay 2022-07-01 | Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud
1993

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(Video 494)

Mid -Year Book Freak Out Tag: 2022

Jay Shay 2022-07-01 | Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag:
2022

Co-created by:
Chami (who does still have a channel, though not about books):
youtube.com/c/IsThatChami

Ely @ Earl Grey Books
youtube.com/c/EarlGreyBooks
Her 2020 version of the tag:
youtu.be/2gsr9FJuHzI

The prompts

1. Best book you have read so far this year

Inferno - Eileen Myles
A Royal Experiment - Janice Hadlow
The Strangers - Katherena Vermette
Astra - Cedar Bowers
Dragman - Steven Appleby

2. Best sequel you've read so far this year

Only read:
Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline
Garth L. Powell’s (Embers of War series, Fleet of Knives, Light of Impossible Stars)

Maaaaybe A Little Hatred, by Joe Abercrombie, technically a follow on from his First Law Trilogy.

BUT I SHOULD HAVE PICKED...
The Strangers - Katherena Vermette

3. New release you haven't read yet from this year, but you want to.

nope

4. Most anticipated release for the second half of 2022.

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen, out Sept 6th?

5. Biggest disappointment this year.

The Conjoined - Jen Sookfong Lee

6. Biggest surprise this year.

Dragman - Steven Appleby

7. Favourite new author.

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

8. Newest fictional crush.
Zuleika - The Emperor’s Babe - Bernardine Evaristo

9. Newest favourite character.
See # 8.

10. Book that made you cry this year.

The Strangers by Katherena Vermette

11. Book that made you happy this year.

Krazy & Ignatz: Love Letters in Ancient Brick - George Herriman

12. Most beautiful book you've bought or received so far this year.

Pear Tree Pomes by Roy Kiyooka, but didn’t get it this year.
Probably Herriman’s collection.

13. What do you need to read by the end of the year?

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The Soggy Expat Book Maniac Random Questions Tag

Jay Shay 2022-06-26 | The Soggy Expat Book Maniac Random Questions Tag

Created by the illustrious Shawn & Heather:

Heather’s channel:
@Soggy Expat Booknerd
Her copy of the original video:
youtu.be/vaaAUWVnjbU

Shawn's channel:
@Shawn The Book Maniac
His copy of the original video:
youtu.be/rGuAYKCIzP4

The prompts:

1. Soggy: Cold, soggy fries - yay or nay?
2. Expat: Have you ever lived abroad? If not, would you?
3. Book: A trip you took (and/or would like to take) because a book or author made you want to see it in person.
4. Book: A book or author from Canada and/or Wales you’d like to read.
5. Random: Embarrassing parent storytime - a time your parent/guardian embarrassed you to your core and you're still recovering (or a time YOU were that parent)?
6. Maniac: One or two other things you are a maniac about (aside from, obvs, being a book maniac).
7. Random: Have you ever been hideously lost (literally or figuratively)?
8. Random: A memorable encounter with a stranger
9. Random: What did you want to be when you grew up? If you have now achieved that in real life, what's it like to be fantastically stable as an adult (asking for a friend)?
10. Random: Are you a people watcher? Do you have good peripheral hearing? Share an anecdote or three.

I tag Kelly @booksimnotreading

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(Video 492)

Krazy & Ignatz | Comic Strip Review

Jay Shay 2022-06-25 | Krazy & Ignatz
“Love Letters in Ancient Brick”
Continuing the Complete Full-Page Comic Strips,
1927-28.
by George Herriman
Edited by Bill Blackbeard
Fantagraphic Books

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(Video 491)

There Are Doors | SF/Fantasy Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-06-25 | There Are Doors
Gene Wolfe
1988

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(Video 490)

Paying the Land | Joe Sacco | Non-Fiction Graphic Novel

Jay Shay 2022-06-09 | Paying the Land
by Joe Sacco
2020

Canadaland interview with Sacco I reference in the review:
canadaland.com/podcast/356-joe-sacco

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(Video 491)

The Hospital Suite | John Porcellino| Graphic Auto-biographical Review

Jay Shay 2022-05-24 | The Hospital Suite
John Porcellino
2014

Below is an excellent interview with Porcellino by Gil Roth of the Virtual Memories Show podcast. Talking about concerns over aging and health, the influence that having OCD has had on his work and much else. I listened to it after I recorded the review and am happy to hear he sounds like he is doing well! (I am always a debby downer.)
youtu.be/dz5INWsCBc8

The Virtual Memories Show webpage if you want to listen to the show elsewhere:
vmspod.com/about

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waffle # 5

Jay Shay 2022-05-10 | WRONG!!! I'm happy to be really WRONG about abortion access in Victoria, but the point about problems with equal access and the barriers in place is still all too valid. (And the point about my ignorance of the situation is right on point!)

vicnews.com/news/still-barriers-to-abortion-access-on-vancouver-island

Vancouver Island Woman's Clinic:
viwc.ca

Actual information, not ill informed waffling on abortion in Canada and its history:

canadaland.com/abortion-access-canada-roe-v-wade-morgentaler

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so much waffling in a (parked) car:

Booktubers mentioned
@CharlesHeathcote
@saintdonoghue

Charlie woolgathers in a most exquisite manner and Steve chats with his highly estranged wife Deb on the all too rarely seen in the wild Manatee Mondays.

Here is one:
youtu.be/SYEnnJf-gyY

Books mentioned:

There are Doors
Gene Wolfe
1988

Krazy & Ignatz: "Love Letters in Ancient Brick", 1927 and 1928
George Herriman
Edited by Bill Blackbeard
Fantagraphics Books

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(Video 489)

Zendegi | Greg Egan | Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-05-08 | Zendegi
Greg Egan
2010

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(Video 488)

A Royal Experiment [The Strangest Family] | Janice Hadlow | Non-Fiction Review

Jay Shay 2022-05-07 | A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of George III
Janice Hadlow
2014
704 pages

aka
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

(a much better subtitle!)

I can't find a specific video by Shawn talking about The Strangest Family. He mostly updated his viewers on the book in a series of Friday Reads about a year or maybe two ago. I suggest going back and watching all his videos just to be safe! He is a tremendous booktuber.
@shawnbreathesbooks

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(Video 487)

Dragman | A Graphic Novel Review

Jay Shay 2022-04-30 | Dragman
Steven Appleby
Watercolour by Nicola Sherring
2020

Cartoonist Steven Appleby interview:
youtu.be/bUBCVAd2aio

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waffle # 4

Jay Shay 2022-04-27 | Waffle on Monday; hopefully release on Tuesday. (If I don’t think too much about it.)

It was such a GOOD air conditioner!! (But returning it was very easy.) Here is the installation video I used which would have worked if I'd made sure about the window being tall enough! (AGGH!)
youtu.be/hux4BEKiu6k

Michael K. Vaugh posing the question: “Are These Books Trash?”:
youtu.be/bO3tWJ4-t-k

And Steve Donoghue answering!
youtu.be/xOVILccv-ns

The Lord of Books in Columbia, Jose Alberto Gutierrez:

A 2017 BBC article about him:
bbc.com/news/education-40173423

The YouTube video I found on him when I googled trash books:
youtu.be/o8CrdNQr0-0

Books mentioned:

A Place of Greater Safety
by Hilary Mantel
1992

The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy:

Wolf Hall (2009)
Bring Up the Bodies (2012)
The Mirror & the Light (2020)

And I read ‘Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch - which is quite thorough...

March of the Mammoths (reading a book or books over 800 pages starting in the month of March) was hosted this year by Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse, Lucas @acruelreadersthesis5868 and Alex @bigalbooksforever . Thanks to them for the prompt!

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(Video 485)

Booktube Spin # 6 - The Results

Jay Shay 2022-04-15 | The Booktube Spin is hosted and created by Rick MacDonnell. The idea is you pick and number books you want to read from 1 to 20. Rick spins the wheel and whatever number comes up is what you read in the next couple of months.

Rick MacDonnell's results videos for Booktube Spin #6:
youtu.be/zcn7AmOk-5E

The books I'll read in the next couple of months:

17. Krazy and Ignatz (Krazy Kat) "Love Letters in Ancient Brick" 1927-28, George Herriman, edited by Bill Blackbeard

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20. There Are Doors, Gene Wolfe, 1988.

The blurb for Wolfe's book: "'There are Doors' is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life if necessary for her love. For to love her... is to die."

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The Booktube Spin # 6 - The Paperbacks

Jay Shay 2022-04-14 | Booktube Spin #6 - Paperback Edition

You select 20 works of some kind, Rick MacDonnell will spin the wheel tomorrow and that decides what you will read.

FOR ME there are two lists for each spin, one graphic novels (following Rick), one paperbacks.

Rick MacDonnell’s announcement video for the sixth spin of the wheel:
youtu.be/aZY7q69lS54

The Paperbacks:

1. Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein

2. The Homeward Bounders - Diana Wynne Jones

3. Darker Than Amber - John D. MacDonald

4. Only Begotten Daughter - James Morrow

5. The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr.

6. A Specter is Haunting Texas - Leiber

7. Cyrion - Tanith Lee

8. The Rituals of Infinity - Michael Moorcock

9. The Vultures of Whapeton - Robert E. Howard

10. Iceworld - Hal Clement

11. Neveryona - Samuel R. Delany

12. Those Gentle Voices - George Alec Effinger

13. The Penultimate Truth - Philip K. Dick

14. The General Danced at Dawn - G.M. Fraser

15. Green Eyes - Lucius Shepard

16. The 57th Franz Kafka - Rudy Rucker

17. A Touch of Strange - Theodore Sturgeon

18. The Hollow Man - Dan Simmons

19. Pilgrimage to Earth - Sheckley

20. There Are Doors - Gene Wolf

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The Booktube Spin # 6 - The Graphic Novels List

Jay Shay 2022-04-14 | Booktube Spin #6

You select 20 works of some kind, Rick MacDonnell will spin the wheel tomorrow and that decides what you will read.

FOR ME there are two lists for each spin, one graphic novels (following Rick), one paperbacks.

Rick MacDonnell’s announcement video for the sixth spin of the wheel:
youtu.be/aZY7q69lS54

My graphic novels list:

1. The Adventures of Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware

2. Castle Waiting - Linda Medley

3. Castle Waiting - Linda Medley

4. Castle Waiting - Linda Medley

5. Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson

6. Just the Facts - David Collier

7. Louis Riel - Chester Brown

8. Alec - The King Canute Crowd - Eddie Campbell

9. Pure Trance - Junko Mizuno

10. The Chuckling Whatsit - Richard Sala

11. From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

12. Twentieth Century Eightball - Daniel Clowes

13. Mad Knight - Richard Sala

14. Flies on the Ceiling - Los Bros Hernandez (Xaime)

15. Blood of Palomar - Gilbert Hernandez

16. Shadowland - Kim Deitch

17. Krazy & Ignatz - George Herriman - ‘Love Letters in Ancient Brick’ 1927 through 1928

18. I Leonardo - Ralph Stedman

19. In the Shadow of No Towers - Art Spiegelman

20. Premillennial Maakies - Tony Millionaire

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The Book Acquiring Tag

Jay Shay 2022-04-08 | The Book Acquiring Tag

Kristin from @Enter the Book created this tag. Her original video: youtu.be/z0JdqlD4gb0

Brian @Bookish, his version of the tag:
youtu.be/0BZF_USp69g

And Steve Donoghue already did the tag!
youtu.be/ugYzpzWzJCQ

Rick MacDonnell's Booktube Spin is year round! Here he is explaining it for Booktube Spin #5:
youtu.be/t1WLjCt3JlY

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Prompts:

1. Do you plan your book purchases ahead or impulse buy?

2. How do you decide what books to buy?

3. What is your philosophy on where you shop? Online vs in person- large vs small- physical, digital or audio- new vs used? Etc

4. What about little free libraries- what do you think about them- have you used one? Why or why not?

5. How do you feel after acquiring a book/a? Do you share - like in a book haul or diary?

6. How do you feel looking at your books that haven’t been read? Does it matter if it’s currently a lot or little amount?

7. How do you decide what number of unread books is the right amount?

8. Do you have a TBR game or process for reading them?

9. Do you have a book buying problem? If so what is the nature of it? And can it be adjusted?

10. Tag two or three others to ponder their book buying process!

11. Know you are awesome just as you are - being a book lover is amazing!

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The Emperors Babe | Novel Review

Jay Shay 2022-04-02 | The Emperor's Babe
by Bernardine Evaristo
2001

Mike Frost's review:
youtu.be/t6Dc50jFiyI

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waffle # 3

Jay Shay 2022-03-27 | more waffling... and I didn't even get into feeling bad for publishing negative reviews, but at the same time needing to talk about books I didn't get along with.

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Steve Donoghue's 'Video Response: Is WANTING a Writing Career Enough?'
youtu.be/C3o7HLAHYvM

which responds to Cam Wolf's video 'is WANTING a writing career enough?? Discussion':
youtu.be/tEpyEaA77bo

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March of the Mammoths is a reading challenge hosted by Jason @Old Blue's Chapter and Verse , Lukas @A Cruel Reader's Thesis and Alex @bigalbooks. Read 800+ page books in the month, as many as you want! Or, like me and Jason, START reading a mammoth and finish later in the year.

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Book mentioned:

A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel
1992
872 pages

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
(The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
Marlon James
2019
640 pages
24hrs and some minutes long, with an amazing narrator, who sings the songs!

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The Fullness of Time | Novella Review *Spoilers*

Jay Shay 2022-03-24 | The Fullness of Time
by Kate Wilhelm
with Marguerite Gavin (Narrator)
2012

I should have started with 'Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang' (1976), which won the Hugo and was nominated for the Nebula.

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The Booktube Numbers Tag

Jay Shay 2022-03-19 | The Booktube Numbers Tag

Jim created the tag @jimsbooksreadingandstuff
His original video:
youtu.be/g2fXsaCMiD4

The Questions
1. What was your first Booktube video?
2. How many books are you currently reading?
3. What were the Top 3 books you read last year?
4. How many books did you read last year?
5. How many books have you rated as 5 stars this year?
6. Do you have a reading target for this year?
Are you on track?
7. How many pages long is the book you are reading now?
How long are your videos?
Do you have a favorite number?
Last Question: Do you have a book on your shelves with a number in the title or on the cover?

Only people who read description boxes are tagged, and those who have friends who read description boxes. Those people who feel that description boxes are for losers are DEFINITELY NOT tagged.

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waffle # 2

Jay Shay 2022-03-15 | We shall see how many keywords I stumbled upon in this video where I opened my big dumb mouth!

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Hopefully my comments about Steve come across as affectionate! Steve Donoghue is THE Booktube treasure – and also an extremely entertaining drama queen!

His techno tribulations with live streams: youtu.be/qWtK_pLJiJQ

His triumphant return after depriving us of videos FOR A FULL DAY!!! (I almost had to go on methadone):
youtu.be/SP0T4f6X98Y

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March of the Mammoths is a reading challenge hosted by Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse , Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868 and Alex @bigalbooksforever. Read 800+ page books in the month, as many as you want! Or, like me and Jason, START reading a mammoth and finish later in the year.

Book mentioned:

A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel
1992
872 pages

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Astra | Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-03-14 | Astra
by Cedar Bowers
2021

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Elatsoe | Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-03-11 | Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger
2020

Obviously, I know nothing about asexuality! I got the definition I used from asexuality.org.

The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas website:
lipanapache.org

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Code Breaker - Non-Fiction Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-03-08 | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson
2021

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March of the Mammoths, 2022, Announcement & Pick

Jay Shay 2022-03-02 | The hosts of March of the the Mammoths are:

Alex @bigalbooksforever
Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse
Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868

The 800+ page book I'm going to be reading in March (and beyond) is:
A Place of Greater Safety
by Hilary Mantel
1992

There! You don't have to watch my video and you can miss the auto-focus on my phone's camera going insane!! (That and my very poor readings of the two books I was dithering over. Though The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset sounded better listening back than it did as I read it out loud.)

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Everything is Flammable - Graphic Novel Review

Jay Shay 2022-02-25 | Everything is Flammable
by Gabrielle Bell
2017

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waffle

Jay Shay 2022-02-21 | waffle, with many umms & ahhs, ah so much room for improvement!

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Inferno (A Poets Novel) - Book Review Collage?

Jay Shay 2022-02-16 | Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
by Eileen Myles
2010

While you shouldn't blame Dane @danecobain for the form of this review, you should probably check out his reviews to see where I'm coming from.

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Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy! Book Review.

Jay Shay 2022-02-05 | The life and adventures of Michael Armstrong, the factory boy
by Frances Trollope (1779-1863)
1840

Because I was pretty terrible in putting her work in context, check out this article from ageofreveolution.org where Trollope's work is discussed:

"Her story shocked readers and pioneered a new way for social reformers of the time to reach their audiences, and campaign for better conditions. Over the course of the 1800s these campaigns would lead to government acts, which slowly improved working conditions and protected the rights of children, beginning with the Factory Act of 1844 which limited children aged 8-13 to a six-and-a-half-hour shift."

ageofrevolution.org/200-object/the-life-and-adventures-of-michael-armstrong-the-factory-boy-by-frances-trollope

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The Conjoined | Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-01-22 | The Conjoined
Jen Sookfong Lee
2016

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The Astounding Science Fiction Book Tag

Jay Shay 2022-01-19 | The Astounding Science Fiction Tag

From the limitless mind of Michael K. Vaughan!!
youtu.be/0SpdxlKhFT8

And there have been several great versions of this tag done. Special mention to Plagued by Visions who has the most epic opening song and montage of all times!
youtu.be/IeAHHWKWcj4

Questions:
1. What was the first science fiction book that you read? What did you think of it?

2. What was the last science fiction book that you read? What did you think of it?

3. If you love science fiction, what made you love science fiction?

4. What is your favorite science fiction movie?

5. What is your favorite science fiction TV show?

6. What science fiction book do you feel should be read more often?

7. What is your favorite science fiction short story?

8. What is your favorite science fiction book?

Do read (if you feel like it, it is up to you):

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
by Alec Nevala-Lee
(2018)

Books & Authors mentioned:

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle, 1962
The Gangster, GFL #6, Scott Sigler
Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente
Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5), Martha Welles
Future Home of A Living God by Louise Erdrich
Broken Slate, Kelly Jennings, 2011
The Persistence of Vision, John Varley (1978, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
Stranger In A Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris Series
City of Saints & Madmen, 2002
Shriek: An Afterword, 2006
Finch, 2009
Alastair Reynolds
Octavia Butler
Nnedi Okafor

The mentioned rant/review/rave of ‘The Persistence of Vision’ video:
youtu.be/edbcAXSxT34

You know, you could do this tag, if you wanted...

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Persistence of Vision Novella Review

Jay Shay 2022-01-19 | The Persistence of Vision,
John Varley
(Originally published 1978, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

An off-shoot of the 'Astounding Science Fiction Tag' by Michael K. Vaughan:
youtu.be/0SpdxlKhFT8

My version, filmed right after this review:
youtu.be/ZCeqyYR2ioo

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Booktube Spin #5 Results-Reaction!

Jay Shay 2022-01-15 | Booktube Spin #5 Results-Reaction!

Rick MacDonnell's Announcement for Booktube Spin #5:
youtu.be/t1WLjCt3JlY

His results video which I react to:
youtu.be/wWb2duKeaq4

For the booktube spin, created by Rick, you pick and number 20 books on your TBR from 1 to 20. Rick will spin the wheel, twice. You will have until March 31 to read the two books! (Or you can do one book, if the book that it lands on is insanely long or that is all you want to commit yourself to.)

Zendegi, Greg Egan, 2010, hard sf.

Paying the Land, Joe Sacco, 2020, graphic-non-fiction?

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The Booktube Spin #5 - The List!

Jay Shay 2022-01-13 | Booktube Spin #5

Rick MacDonnell's Announcement for Booktube Spin #5:
youtu.be/t1WLjCt3JlY

You pick and number 20 books on your TBR from 1 to 20. Rick will spin the wheel, twice (tomorrow January 14!) You will have until March 31 to read the two books! (Or you can do one book, if the book that it lands on is insanely long or that is all you want to commit yourself to.)

Kindle Books

(Taken from my version of the ‘What Lurks on my Kindle Tag’, inspired by Michael k. Vaughan's original video: youtu.be/-wq_A0t414s And weaponized by Steve Donoghue into the tag here: youtu.be/Ses1Pf0OZqY)

1) Children of Earth & Sky, Guy Gaveriel Kay; 2016.

2) Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee, 2016. Oh and I have the 2nd one Raven Strtagem!

3) The Lesser Bohemians; Eimear McBride, .

4) The Emperor's Babe, Bernardine Evaristo, 2004, recommended by Mike the Post-Post Modern Prognosticator- MIKE FROST, a historical novel in verse!

5) Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates, 2017, Marilynn Monroe novel, 754 p., Eric Karl Anderson buy.

6) The Catholic School, Edoardo Albinati, 2019, 1280 pages, Steve Donoghue, won Strega lit prize in native Italy

7) Piranesi, Susanna Clark, 2020

8) Zendegi - Greg Egan; Zendegi is a science fiction novel by Australian author Greg Egan, 2010.

Let's Get Physical!

9. The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson

10. Shadowmarch - Tad Williams

11. Monkey King: Journey to the West - Wu Cheng’en

12. Arturo’s Island - Elsa Morante

13. Paying the Land - Joe Sacco

14. The Golden Spruce - John Vaillant

15. a complicated kindness - Miriam Toews

16. New Arabian Nights - R. L. Stevenson

17. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry

18. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

19. The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe

20. The Loser, Thomas Bernhard

Thanks Rick!

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Q&A!

Jay Shay 2022-01-11 | Books & Media Mentioned:

Inferno (A Poet's Novel) - Eileen Myles, 2010

Pear Tree Pomes - Roy Kiyooka, 1987

Monty Python - Novel Writing sketch audio:
youtu.be/ogPZ5CY9KoM

All the lovely folk who asked questions and those who wished me well:

M.J. @ReadingThisLife (Not This Reading Life!)
youtube.com/channel/UCPPZUz5moS8_Mi_kQSOj3Eg
Lindsey Reads
youtube.com/channel/UClRxM_rLMuPWu3DPRTc5zaw
Jen @RememberedReads
Kelly @booksimnotreading
Julia E.
youtube.com/channel/UCTc-t6n9A6BitLYiov4fhrQ
David Walsh
youtube.com/channel/UCmx0tB1Qe09CzYD4EHVACjg
Brian @BookishTexan
Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse
Scott & Nelle @GunpowderFictionPlot
Juan @PlaguedbyVisions

I put a link to Joel Swagman's great video discussion 'Let's talk about social media addiction and Booktube' at the end of the video because a lot of the psychological and physiological effects of Youtube are not unconnected to the 'flooding' feeling I get with comments. His is another perspective that illuminates my thoughts about being a Booktuber.
youtu.be/0jsA4Hjox60

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For some reason, only known to some deep, deep part of my brain, this video has the comments open - perhaps because it feels like this particular thread is a conversation that would be a shame to shut down.
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Comments

Jay Shay 2022-01-01 | If you want to sound off in the comments, here is your chance! Or ask me a question between now, December 31, 2021, and January 8, 2022. I will read all your questions and answers the ones I can shortly after that.

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(Video 461)

One Day Well All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter | Non Fiction Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-01-01 | One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
by Scaachi Koul
2017

I recorded this is the backyard at night, thus the lack of my face.

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Legends of Vancouver | E. Pauline Johnson | Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-01-01 | Legends of Vancouver
by E. Pauline Johnson
1911

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The What Lurks on My Kindle Tag

Jay Shay 2022-01-01 | The What Lurks on My Kindle Tag

Michael k. Vaughan's original video:
youtu.be/-wq_A0t414s

Steve Donoghue weaponized it into a tag:
youtu.be/Ses1Pf0OZqY

CriminOlly's 100 book challenge:
youtu.be/rJ2BQlB8gxw

Mike Frost on The Emperor's Babe:
youtu.be/t6Dc50jFiyI

OH! and I was tagged after I filmed the video by Shawn the Book Maniac, here is his version of the tag:
youtu.be/DpyYApDYp8k

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The Prompts and Some Disorganized Notes:

When did you get your e-device?
2010??

How much do you use it?
A Lot. Glasses before & after & in the bath!

What tech is it?
Kindle Paperwhite 10th generation.

What DOES lurk on my Kindle?

93 Samples

Recents:
- Potiki
- A Royal Experiment (or Strange Family) - George III's really messed up family which I made the jump and now have on my kindle (AND AM ACTUALLY READING!)
- Everything & Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

Lost in the Fog of the Past:
- Day Boy, Nice Dragons Finish Last, The Bitterwood Bible

Oldest

1) Zendegi - Greg Egan; Zendegi

2) Mozart's Blood - Louise Marley (2010); As a young soprano in the eighteenth century, Octavia Voss was bitten by a vampire patroness during a sexual tryst with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and was imbued with the essence of his astonishing musical gifts. Since then, Octavia has enjoyed several careers as a celebrated soprano, taking on new identities to disguise her ageless beauty, and acquiring an assistant and companion in Ugo, a mysterious man who possesses a secret of his own. Together they travel the world for her performances at all the great opera houses. But during a run at La Scala, Octavia draws the attention of a secret vampire hunter who will do anything to make her talents his own.

3) The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lankan born, Canadian novelist) (2011);

Longish

6) Children of Earth & Sky, Guy Gaveriel Kay; 2016; set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands—where empires and faiths collide.

7) Seveneves, Neal Stephenson, 2016, 880 p.; world ending apocolypse & then 5,000 years later, why I don't do Stephenson any more after Baroque Cycle & Anathem; though really enjoyed Cryptonomicon.

8) Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee, first of sf trilogy, supposed to be great but less enthusiasm about following books, though ratings go the other way on goodreads, 2016. Oh and I have the 2nd one Raven Stratagem!

9)The Lesser Bohemians; Eimear McBride, stream of consciousness, contem, lit fiction, lot of prizes.

10) Red Mars (Mars Trilogy Book 1) Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992, colonization of mars, terraforming, long hard sf, loved, loved, loved, Aurora - a book about how much better to save the precious planet we live on and are so uniquely evolved to flourish on

11) The Emperor's Babe, Bernardine Evaristo, 2004, recommended by Mike the Post-Post Modern Prognosticator- MIKE FROST, a historical novel in verse, never got to it, tale of forbidden love in bustling third-century London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry, history, and fiction. Feisty, precocious Zuleika, daughter of Sudanese immigrants-made-good and restless teenage bride of a rich Roman businessman, craves passion and excitement. When she begins an affair with the emperor, Septimius Severus, she knows her life will never be the same.

14) Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates, 2017, Marilynn Monroe novel, 754 p., Eric Karl Anderson talking got me to buy it, but not to read it YET.
Probably this video of Eric's got me going, 'Top 10 Joyce Carol Oates Novels':
youtu.be/eohEVwY_AMc

16) The Catholic School, Edoardo Albinati, 2019, 1280 pages, Steve Donoghue recommended, won Strega lit prize in native Italy

17) Piranesi, Susanna Clark, 2020, intimidated by it, loved Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel.

REREADs

19) Less, Andrew Sean Greer & Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

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A Life on Our Planet Review | Attenborough | Book Review

Jay Shay 2022-01-01 | A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
by David Attenborough, Jonnie Hughes
2020

The Wikipedia article quoted in the video about Doughnut Economics:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut_(economic_model)#

(Impressed/confused by my edgy in media res editing at the start? I got the title of the book wrong several times.)

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The First Bad Man | Miranda July | Book Review

Jay Shay 2021-12-31 | The First Bad Man
Miranda July
2015

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Books Postscript Tag 2021

Jay Shay 2021-12-31 | Books Postscript Tag 2021

The Book Postscript Tag was created in 2018 by Adam @mementomori. His original video is here: youtu.be/yydtcQRDtMU

Lukas @ Cruel Reader's Thesis:
youtu.be/eyfc0UsBh4U

Jim @ Jim's Books Reading & Stuff
youtu.be/kWuYRdBSBbc

Prompts:
1. The longest book you read this year and the book that took you the longest to finish.

Rhythms of War (Brandon Sanderson, 2020, 1232 pages - ungodly hours, (Stormlight #4) audio
Juan @Just Juan Reader doing a blistering hot take review of the novel!
youtu.be/hGZE4SlC9To

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Edith Grossman (Translator), 940 pages.

Journey to Mars or rather 'Journey to Mars; The Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor; Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms; Its Final Doom': (American author, Gustavus W. Pope, 1894, sf novel - adventure and the bizarre science and views of the time)

The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
by Jean Barman, 1991

On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia, 2020, Jean Barman

2. A book you read this year that was outside of your comfort zone.

Acsquidentally in Love
(Sucker for Love Mysteries #1)
by K.L. Hiers

The First Bad Man
by Miranda July
2015

The Man from Glengarry, Ralph Connor, 1901, early Canada, Cheesy muscular Christian fiction, but affectionately so. Ranald MacDonald saves Canada!!

Tirant Lo Blanc: Tales Of The White Knight
by Joanot Martorell, Robert S. Rudder (Translator), 1490.

3. How many books did you re-read?
Othello, The Tempest, The Great Gatsby, The Wee Free Men

4. Favourite re-read of this year.
The Great Gatsby - furthest time between re-reads

5. A book you read for the first time that you look forward to re-reading in the future.

Don Quixote;
Butter Honey Pig Bread (Francesca Ekwuyasi);
Detransition Baby (Torey Peters)

6. Favourite single short story or novella that you read this year.

Sections of Just North of Nowhere by Lawrence Santoro
“God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him”, by Lawrence Santoro
Read it!
http://dreamquarry.net/god-screamed-and-screamed-then-i-ate-him-by-lawrence-santoro

7. Mass Appeal: A book you liked and would recommend to a wide variety of readers.

Scott Sigler's Galactic Football Series, starting with the Rookie.

Terry Pratchett (everything, but don't start with The Colour of Magic, not particular fond of the Wizards novels, Guards! Guards!, Wee Free Men, The Truth, Monstrous Regiment... Mort)

C.J. Sansom - Shardlake Series - starting with Dissolution...

8. Specialized Appeal: A book you liked but would be hesitant to recommend to just anyone.

The First Bad Man - Miranda July
The Butterfly Lampshade - Aimee Bender
Stoner - John Williams
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters

9. Reflect on your year as a bookish content creator (goals met, good/bad memories, favourite videos you made, etc).

Introduced Theo, my little Havenese to the channel
Did a video with Ja-Janine, which was fun
Doing the Booktube Spin, reading Inferno: A poet's novel by Eileen Myles at the moment
Journaling by/with Steve Donoghue

GLASSES - reverse Superman/Clark Kent
Will Talk about Comments in my Comments video;
Sunday Reads - going away;
Like doing tags when they speak to me
Did get reviews done, probably more without Sunday Reads

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