Two Years Before the Mast by Dana Exit West by Hamid The Gallery by Burns The Great Church in Captivity by Runciman
Briefly touched upon:
The Emergence of Modern Turkey by Bernard Lewis The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Uncivil Rites by Steven Salaita
BookTuber mentioned: @JamesRuchala Quaint and Curious Volumes
Did I say “scientific adventure”? I meant “science fiction adventure”.
Recent Reads: Richard Henry Dana Jr., Mohsin Hamid, John Horne Burns, Steven RuncimanDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-08 | Books finished:
Two Years Before the Mast by Dana Exit West by Hamid The Gallery by Burns The Great Church in Captivity by Runciman
Briefly touched upon:
The Emergence of Modern Turkey by Bernard Lewis The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Uncivil Rites by Steven Salaita
BookTuber mentioned: @JamesRuchala Quaint and Curious Volumes
Did I say “scientific adventure”? I meant “science fiction adventure”.The Tide’s TurningDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-28 | Previous poem “The Siege of Amalek”: youtu.be/Wq_EVsAKDBY
#amalekA Bit of Wisdom from Iron and SilkDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-27 | Book by Mark Salzman
Yesterday’s video: youtu.be/2tZ7ojU_2cwA China Potpourri: Books from My Collection That Are Chinese or Chinese-AdjacentDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-26 | YouTube channels mentioned: @Shellyish @geopoliticshaiphong
Scott Ritter talks about intelligence expertise in Russia during this livestream with Danny Haiphong: youtube.com/live/6xJH4wRr9ls?si=wvCAYaGk_SDbVxAj His relevant discussion, which brought me to thinking about the “China hands,” begins at 1:39:50 and onward.Canal Walk: A Scene from Ancient Chinese Poetry | China Between Empires by Mark Edward LewisDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-23 | Other poetry found in Lewis gets a reading here: youtu.be/SOjSlsERJl8“Pacific” | Poem by Robert FitzgeraldDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-23 | I have no idea the provenance of this poem; it just popped up as a Facebook “memory” but beyond that I cannot say. Fitzgerald is more known to me as a translator of Homer than a poet in his own right.Weekend Reading Report: Mark Edward Lewis, George Eliot, Henry Adams and … Euclid?!?David Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-21 | Euclid’s The Elements is edited and translated by Sir Thomas Heath; I misidentified him as Robert. 😬
I believe an equivalent “joke” about sincerity came from The Best of the Best American Poetry: youtu.be/8CGpX0wpnq0Poetry on Old Age and Youth’s Transience from The Early Chinese Empires by Mark Edward LewisDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-16 | From The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and HanThe Shakespeare Journey Tag — My Second Take with Lots of Extra NonsenseDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-15 | The Shakespeare Journey Tag.
This is an original tag from the #shaketember hosts: Kelly @booksimnotreading Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse and Nicole @adayofsmallthings
1. What was your first experience reading Shakespeare and what was it like? 2. Has the reading of a Shakespeare play ever brought you to tears? What scene was it and where were you when it happened? 3. Are there any people that have played a significant role in your Shakespeare journey? 4. Do you have a favourite book or film about Shakespeare? 5. Which character in Shakespeare most resembles you and in what ways? 6. Which play would you most like to see performed in a theatre and why? 7. What actor, throughout history, would you most like to have seen play Hamlet while in his prime? 8. Deliver your favourite speech or soliloquy from a Shakespeare play. 9. Do any of Shakespeare's plays intimidate you? If yes, what play and why? 10. What tips would you give to intimidated readers coming to Shakespeare for the first time? 11. Which is your favourite Shakespeare play and why? 12. Tag other Booktubers.
Prompts: 1.Hex the Patriarchy: Share your favorite women authors. 2. Never Underestimate a Woman Who Reads Stephen King Books: Share your favorite fictional women characters. 3. Edgar Allan Poe: Share your favorite Gothic book or story. 4. Swiftea: Name your auto-buy authors. 5. Camp Crystal Lake: Share a book that makes you feel nostalgic. 6. Happy Halloween: Share a holiday-themed book that you recommend. 7. This Mug Contains Magic: Share a book you enjoyed that is outside of your comfort zone/typical genre. 8. Tag some bookish friends.Reading HistoryDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-10 | My video on “Ten Historians with Stellar Prose”: youtu.be/mBa87zG9iFQGenerative AI in the Production of Art (and Writing)David Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-06 | This video reacts to @BooklessPete in his video here: youtu.be/cE3keOkkjo4?si=2qgZLfaOXIT7lbcR
The teachers being let go are called Jones Lecturers, not Jones Professors. I misspoke. Here is more information regarding the situation at Stanford: https://search.app/6hUto28qfjjNN6s67The 10 Books That Made Me (Not Really!!): A Response VideoDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-05 | Brian @BookishTexan opened the theme with this video: youtu.be/x_GENpQaHY8?si=fnjf0SnpDfmaSrIG @BookChatWithPat8668 followed with her own: youtu.be/UpooOe9Rw5U?si=gJgiIoZreLKQPQ4i
The Prompts: 1. Istanbul has many names, which do you prefer? 2. Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. Have you read any books by an author because they had won the Nobel Prize for Literature? 3. Have you visited Istanbul? 4. Have you read a book set wholly or partially in Istanbul? (or have you seen a film set in Istanbul?) 5. Have you read a book that mentioned the Armenian Genocide?“These Gook Wimmin”: More from John Horne Burns in Naples (From The Gallery)David Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-01 | ...The Calm of CalamityDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-01 | ...Fifth Promenade from The Gallery by John Horne Burns: An Excerpt Questioning the American IdealDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-09-01 | ...Richard Henry Dana, Jr. from Two Years Before the Mast: an Excerpt Concerning St. Elmo’s FireDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-31 | ...“Distance” by Dorothy Parker; “Absence” by Claude McKayDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-30 | Yesterday’s poetry reading: youtu.be/t5feMrVHcQ8
There is a Biographical Note to McKay’s Selected Poems which I read here: youtu.be/74RBQioq7QA
As I mention in that video, I steer would-be readers of McKay to this (or possibly some other) Selected in place of the Complete.Poetry Reading for Poetry Thursday 29 August 2024David Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-29 | Poets featured: Aphra Behn Anne Bradstreet Gwendolyn Brooks Edna St. Vincent Millay Dorothy Parker Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt Charlotte Smith Phyllis WheatleyTen Historians with Stellar ProseDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-28 | Inspired by this video at historian Brian Bruce’s BookTube channel: youtu.be/7GSxksN43KU?si=4rcZv9gFcCt1JIgW
Ten historians:
1. M.I. Finley / The Ancient Economy 2. Bernard Lewis / The Political Language of Islam 3. Steven Runciman / The First Crusade 4. F.R. Cowell / Cicero and the Roman Republic 5. Mark Edward Lewis / Sanctioned Violence in Early China 6. George Holmes / The Later Middle Ages (Honorable Mention : Maurice Keen / Medieval Europe 7. Henry Adams / The History of the United States 8. Thucydides (Crawley translation) 9. Joyce Tyldesley / Hatchepsut 10. Robert Drews / The Coming of the Greeks (Honorable Mention: Ivan Morris / World of the Shining Prince)Talking about Honest Reviews: A Response to Bookless PeteDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-18 | Here is the video by @BooklessPete in which he presents a deal made as a quandary: youtu.be/OcOAgSbQuKs?si=D6-TnLXYX-CZ2ANb
“I’ve got a video going through all of my books”: youtu.be/dk17SZSIUt0A Change of (Reading) Plans, or An Unexpected Detour (Involving an Exit West)David Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-17 | Exit West is a novel by Mohsin Hamid
No need to link my playlists as they can be gotten to under the Playlists tab: all poets discussed are represented here.
For my first book of sonnets, here is the Amazon link, though used vendors online should have it as well: amazon.com/Sonnets-David-Novak/dp/0967542944Bring Browsing Back Book Tag | Some Recently Hauled BooksDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-08 | BRING BROWSING BACK BOOK TAG This tag was created by: Karen @RovingReader I was tagged by Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
TAG PROMPTS 1. Magic of Discovery- share a book you found while browsing that you may not have discovered otherwise. 2. Expanding World- share a book that has made you view things from a different perspective or exposed you to new ideas. 3. Open to Change- share a book that has changed who you are as a person or altered your day-to-day habits. 4. Browse a bookstore, library, or a friend's shelves (and talk about a book that you found there). 5. Tag People!
Hauling in process on the train from Evanston: youtube.com/shorts/M2L3UKcrZ-IEvanston Book HaulDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-07 | Booktuber Steve Donoghue talking about Lincoln books: youtu.be/pspRRnA_vHo?si=0ff_MrlAkioQpR2j“The Tay Bridge Disaster” by William McGonagall: A Poem from Everyman’s Library Railway RhymesDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-06 | I meant #garbaugust the BookTube event, not Garbology, though either word works.Some Fleeting Thoughts on Canon Creation and the Eyes of Posterity (If Posterity Comes to Pass)David Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-05 | Harold Bloom’s Western Canon is given mention.
By way of correction, while I stated that Eliot destroyed the careers of many poets, more probably it was their egos that felt the shattering blow.Mail Haul of a Mammoth about the War (World War II)David Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-02 | Total War, Revised Second Edition by Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint and John Pritchard
Volume 1: The Western Hemisphere Volume 2: The Greater East Asia and Pacific Conflict
My video of some books about WWII: youtu.be/U27XNyFtv-YTrump Finds Out That Kamala Harris Is BlackDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-08-01 | ...The Reader’s Profile Tag (with a Digression into the I Ching)David Novak Reads Poetry2024-07-31 | THE READER'S PROFILE TAG. This tag was created by Hilary at Book Bustle @HilaryBGreen I was tagged by @BookChatWithPat8668 whose version of the tag is here: youtu.be/BQnC4gH6yjM?si=ls6Kq5Aihd4QwCEI
The Prompts: 1. What for you makes a good book? 2. What are you currently reading? 3. What's the last book you didn't finish and why? 4. What obscure book do you wish other people would read? 5. What's the longest book you've ever read? 6. If you could have a dinner party with five fictional characters, who would they be? 7. Five books you'd want if stranded on a desert island. 8. One book you could not put down. 9. Five books or authors you will never read. 10. If you were to write a book, what would it be about? 11. Tag some people.
I tag: @genteelblackhole @SluggishReader @BooklessPete @AnnNovella @ramblingraconteur1616 @TimeTravelReads @mattsbookshelf4084The Principle of “No Contact Upward” in Jan Karski’s The Story of a Secret StateDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-07-28 | Plus a brief excerpt from Shattering the German Night by Annette E. Dumbach and Jud Newborn; later republished and revised as Sophie Scholl and the White Rose.
My WWII video as mentioned (a “show and tell” of books): youtu.be/U27XNyFtv-YSome Books About World War II (Including an Excerpt from Jan Karski’s The Story of a Secret State)David Novak Reads Poetry2024-07-27 | Book by Brian Bruce about MacArthur’s Bloody… as mentioned in video… is discussed here: youtu.be/iwpIE5k5KPI?si=zCFwCRHYiwcXMY9vRecent Reads: Joshua Slocum, Steven Runciman, Ismail KadareDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-07-25 | Books finished: Sailing Alone Around the World by Slocum The White Rajahs by Runciman The Eastern Schism by Runciman The Traitor’s Niche by Kadare
Books just begun: Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. The Great Church in Captivity by RuncimanHenry Adams on Thomas Jefferson’s Indian PolicyDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-07-24 | From his history of the United States.The Honest BookTuber TagDavid Novak Reads Poetry2024-07-24 | I was tagged by Will @willchambers8065 and by James @JamesRuchala Quaint and Curious Volumes.
Jessica at @JessBookgirlTV revived this tag with the words: "I saw 'The Honest Booktuber Tag,' on someone else's channel. I decided to do it. It's a fun one to do and I am hoping it gets revived.”
Tag created by @HarrietRosie13
Prompts: 1. Have you ever lied about reading a book? 2. Have you ever avoided a book because of controversy around the content/author/ 3. Have you ever been sent a book for free and not disclosed it? 4. Have you ever bought a book with no intention of reading it? 5. Have you ever got caught up in Booktube drama? 6. Have you ever had a hate comment and did you respond? 7. Have you ever made a video just because you knew it would get views? 8. If you could go back to the beginning of your channel, would you do anything differently? 9. Are there any channels you wish you could be more like? 10. What's something you love about your channel? 11. Tag some people.Selections from “A Man of Heart” by Liam Guilar | “A Presentment of Englishry Part 2” |David Novak Reads Poetry2024-07-19 | #poetrythursday
My earliest books published under the imprint of Non Fit Press have to be searched for among online vendors; the rest can be found at my Lulu page linked here: lulu.com/spotlight/davidxnovak