Announcing Chekhovember: the best booktube event! @JamesRuchala

Quaint And Curious Volumes #booktube #chekhovember #chekhov

In which I announce an event to read the works of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) in November 2024.
My co-hosts are Greg from @anotherbibliophilereads and Allen from @bighardbooks770 .

Our schedule:
Week 1: The Seagull
Week 2: The Cherry Orchard
Week 3: "Ward No. 6"
Week 4: "Gooseberries" and "The Lady with the Little Dog"

I'm reading these in the following editions:
Five Plays by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Ronald Hingley (Oxford Word's Classics)
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov Tranlated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Modern Library)

Email: qcvbooktube@gmail.com
Voxer: jrucha542

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Announcing Chekhovember: the best booktube event!

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-10-08 | #booktube #chekhovember #chekhov

In which I announce an event to read the works of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) in November 2024.
My co-hosts are Greg from @anotherbibliophilereads and Allen from @bighardbooks770 .

Our schedule:
Week 1: The Seagull
Week 2: The Cherry Orchard
Week 3: "Ward No. 6"
Week 4: "Gooseberries" and "The Lady with the Little Dog"

I'm reading these in the following editions:
Five Plays by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Ronald Hingley (Oxford Word's Classics)
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov Tranlated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Modern Library)

Email: qcvbooktube@gmail.com
Voxer: jrucha542

Friday Reads: Keeper of the Rods

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-10-18 | #booktube #fridayreads #proust #sonicyouth #nobelprizeforliterature

I talk about my reading for the week and show Louise's new ottoman.

Books discussed:
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Sonic Life: a Memoir by Thurston Moore

My true calling, the Broken Kilometer: diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/walter-de-maria-the-broken-kilometer-new-york-united-states

Email: qcvbooktube@gmail.com
Voxer: jrucha542

Louise v Ottoman

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Poetry Thursday: better than Tolstoy!

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-10-17 | #booktube #poetrythursday #nobelprize #nobelprizeforliterature

I read three poems by the 1901 Nobel Laureate René Armand François Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907)
"The Lost Cry"
"We Shall Forget"
"The Broken Vase"
Translated by William Frederic Giese

From The Nobel Prize Library (1971)

Book Murder tag

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-10-16 | #booktube #tagtuesday #booktubetag The Book Murderer Tag:

This is a fun tag from the awesome Noah ‪‪@BookWyrm1060‬ @BookWyrm1060

Prompts:
1. What are your thoughts on spine breaking?
2. Bookmarks or dog-earing pages?
3. Page tearing or ripping?
4. Writing in books?
5. Ripping covers and book binding?
6. Tag some people!

Check out Shawn D Standfast's law-and-order take:
youtu.be/oimyELk5WRs?si=zjpnod62N1I979Rc

12 Great Books to Re-read (or maybe not)

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-10-11 | #booktube #reading

Responding to Greg's video at youtu.be/f9XgIDhsz-0?si=VQ5_qxUoq8AS_EFy I talk about some books I'd like to re-read and ask when it's better to re-read a book or to read something new by the same author.

Books mentioned:
Master of Reality by John Darnielle
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Dubliners by James Joyce
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Email: qcvbooktube@gmail.com
Voxer: jrucha542

Louises non-bookish interests

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Poetry Thursday: Thomas Hardy on catastrophe

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-10-10 | #booktube #poetrythursday #thomashardy #victober

I read two poems by Thomas Hardy (1840—1928):

"During Wind and Rain" poetryfoundation.org/poems/52314/during-wind-and-rain
"The Convergence of the Twain" poetryfoundation.org/poems/47266/the-convergence-of-the-twain

September/October handoff video

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-10-05 | ...

The Best and Worst Tag! (rant/spoilers for Jon Fosses Trilogy)

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-10-01 | #booktag #booktube #best
#best&worst #booktube #booktag #literature

The Best & Worst Tag, created by ‪
@brenboothjones #best&worst

Prompt 1: The best work of poetry in your collection and the worst.

Prompt 2: The best work of fiction in your collection and the worst.

Prompt 3: The best worst of nonfiction in your collection and the worst.

Books mentioned:
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Map by Wislawa Szymborska
How to be an Anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Trilogy by Jon Fosse

@LeafbyLeaf review of Jon Fosse's Tri(o)logy: youtu.be/E1Evo83Jn2c?si=XCodsjCqJ8JmdncY

I tag: ‪@BookChatWithPat8668 @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk @strangementalitypaperYT @TheDiscoKingOfficial @fictionesque1992 @noteworthyfiction @saintdonoghue @ShawnDStandfast

Poetry Thursday: Randall Jarrell!

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-09-26 | #booktube #poetrythursday #poetry #northcarolina

I read Randall Jarrell's poem "The Old and the New Masters"

RockOnRapSongs tag on tag Tuesday

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-09-24 | #booktube #tagtuesday
Rock On, Rap Songs Book Tag | Original Tag 2024
Created by Nicole’s Bookish Nook @NicolesBookishNook
I was tagged by nobody but I saw Pat @BookChatWithPat8668 do it

#tag #tags #tagtuesday #booktube #readingQUESTIONS:
1. It's A Hard Knock Life by Jay-Z: A fiction or nonfiction book about an orphanage, a poor family, or an orphan,

2. Walk This Way by Aerosmith ft. Run DMC: A favorite book of yours that blends genres,

3. Just Lose It by Eminem = A Book that you think is funny or ridiculous (in a bad way),

4. Thunderstruck by AC/DC: A Book that shocked you (in a good or bad way),

5. Welcome to the Jungle by Guns 'n Roses: A book about L.A or a book that takes place in or around L.A,

6. Gimmie Me All Your Lovin' by ZZ Top: Your favorite romance book. Or, if you do not read romance, your favorite couple in any book,

7. Fight for Your Right (To Party) by The Beastie boys: A book centered around a celebration,

8. Firestarter by Prodigy: A book that has "fire" in the title or has an orange/red cover,

9. Humble by Kendrick Lamar: a fiction or nonfiction book that left you stunned at the audacity of the main character or the writer,

10. Tag people

I tag anyone who is watching who would like to do this tag, and I also specifically tag the following people:

Books mentioned:
Berlin by Jason Lutes
Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun biography and memoir
Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
Nuclear War: a Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Song of Solomon - King James Version
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Fire Next Time
All Fours by Miranda July.

I tag anyone who is watching who would like to do this tag, and I also specifically tag the following people:

@gryffonsi
@MustReadMore
@BookTimewithElvis
@LiterateTexan
@bighardbooks770
@DavidWiley7
@stalkingkafka
@fiberartsyreads
@Paradisereading

#tag #tags #tagtuesday #booktube #reading

Email: qcvbooktube@gmail.com
Voxer: jrucha542

Another Absurd reading event: Friday Reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-09-20 | #booktube #fridayreads #framed #chekhovember

I talk about my reading this week, my appearance on Monday Night Live with Allen and Greg and a suggestion for a portmanteau-driven reading event.

youtube.com/watch?v=sXeEzAmCxWg&t=40s My talk with Allen and Greg

Books mentioned:
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
Berlin by Jason Lutes
The Selected Short Stories of Anton Chekhov

Channels Mentioned:
@LibroParadiso-ep4zt
@anotherbibliophilereads
@bighardbooks770

Email: qcvbooktube@gmail.com
Voxer: jrucha542

#Art-o-mat: some of my art

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-09-19 | #booktube #framed #artomat #winstonsalemnc

I talk about two pieces of art from the background of my videos: a print of Hiroshige's "Evening Snow at Kanbara" and a hand print by Mona Wu from the Art-o-mat.

metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/56915
artworks-gallery.org/members/Wu/Wu.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art-o-mat

Poetry Thursday: Wallace Stevens

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-09-19 | #booktube #poetrythursday

I read the Wallace Stevens poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird

Dune Messiahs and Good Soldiers and folk festivals: Friday Reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-09-13 | #booktube #fridayreads #dune

I talk about the books of the last week and the coming week. I also talk a little about the NC Folk Festival 2024.

Books mentioned:
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Selected Poems by Randall Jarell
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
The Saxon Princess by Anne R. Bailey
Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun

Poetry Thursday: 2 poems about art

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-09-12 | #booktube #poetrythursday #framed

I read two poems about art:
"Musée des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden
poetryfoundation.org/poems/159364

"The People on the Bridge" by Wisława Szymborska.

Shakespeare Journey tag

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-09-06 | #booktube #tagtuesday #shakespeare #shaketember

I do the Shakespeare Journey tag.
This is an original tag from the #shaketember hosts Kelly at @booksimnotreading Jason at ‪@OldBluesChapterandVerse‬ and Nicole at ‪@adayofsmallthings‬

I was tagged by Pat at ‪@BookChatWithPat8668‬
Here are the prompts:
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.

@LibroParadiso-ep4zt
@davidnovakreadspoetry
@jenniparks8539
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
@MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm
@sterlingreads547
@ThatReadingGuy28
@MustReadMore
@troytradup
@Eldertalk
@JessBookgirlTV
@SleepyBookReader-666
@strangementalitypaperYT
@noteworthyfiction
@TheLimitlessLibrarian
@mildrumpus
@tomlabooks3263
@gingerbibliophile

Poetry Thursday: Peter Schjeldahl!

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-09-05 | #booktube #poetrythursday #framedrum
I read Peter Schjeldahl's poem "I Missed Punk."

The typescript of the poem can be seen here: flickr.com/photos/smallcurio/25769662778/lightbox

Schjeldahl's wikipedia entry is worth reading as well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schjeldahl

August September Interface report

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Garb-poetry Thursday. Louise Erdrich!

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-08-29 | #booktube #poetrythursday #garbaugust
I read the poem "Advice to Myself" by Louise Erdrich

The text of the poem:
wordsfortheyear.com/2016/05/04/advice-to-myself-by-louise-erdrich

Advice to Myself 2: Resistance
youtu.be/0ghWIAqaH3U?si=aBh9grZafLNJMrYD

Email: qcvbooktube@gmail.com
Voxer: jrucha542

Stink-o-la: a reaction to reviews.

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-08-20 | #booktube #stinkola

A reaction to
@davidnovakreadspoetry
youtu.be/Ceu5xZBA7k4?si=eEb0pyWZPFCm-reg

and @BooklessPete
youtube.com/watch?v=OcOAgSbQuKs&t=0s

Email: qcvbooktube@gmail.com
Voxer: jrucha542

Not Quaint Enough! Friday Reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-08-16 | #booktube #fridayreads

Books discussed:
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Arthur Ashe: a Life by Raymond Arsenault
Levels of the Game by John McPhee

Channels mentioned:
@ToReadersItMayConcern

Garb-poetry Thursday with Szymborska

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-08-15 | #booktube #poetrythursday #garbaugust

I read the poem "An Opinion on the Question of Pornography" by Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012.

Originally published in People on the Bridge (1986). Read from Map: Collected and Last Poems (2015).

A Member of the Wedding and other Friday reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-08-09 | #booktube #fridayreads

I talk about The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers.
Also a bit about Evicted :Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond.

July and August reads. Ashe, Austen and 2 of 100

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-08-02 | #booktube #fridayreads #janeausten
I talk about my reading for the previous week and plans for the month of August.

Books mentioned:
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Arthur Ashe: a Life by Raymond Arsenault
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
A Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Exit West by Moshin Hamid

Garb-poetry Thursday: S*** List

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-08-01 | #garbaugust #poetrythursday #booktube

I read the poem "Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity" by A. R. Ammons.

Find the poem at public-domain-poetry.com/a-r-ammons/shit-list-or-omnium-gatherum-of-diversity-into-unity-2698

Check out @BookChatWithPat8668 's video today, too: youtu.be/9j49JNEjPOU?si=UT_U8Mb4x5mT5sNt

Hats beware!: The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-07-30 | #booktube #proust #losttime

Some of my thoughts on finishing The Guermantes Way, volume 3 of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Books mentioned:
The Trial by Franz Kafka

Honest Booktuber Tag on Tag Tuesday

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-07-23 | #booktube #tagtuesday #honestbooktuber

THE HONEST BOOKTUBER TAG:

I was tagged by Pat at @BookChatWithPat8668

Jessica says:
"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. 'The Honest Booktuber Tag' was 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.

I tag anyone who is watching who would like to do this tag and all of the following people:

@LiterateTexan
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
@davidnovakreadspoetry
@bighardbooks770
@strangementalitypaperYT
@noteworthyfiction
@SleepyBookReader-666
@HannahsBooks

Channels Mentioned:
@ToReadersItMayConcern
@aaronfacer
@TheBookedEscapePlan
@HannahsBooks

Winning Titles on Tag Tuesday

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-07-16 | #WinningTitleTag #tags #tagtuesday
Winning Title Tag

This is the Winning Title Tag where you get to talk about books where the title made you buy them. You can either get together a stack of books and talk through them or answer the questions below, whichever works for you. This tag was created by @heathereads

I was tagged by Pat at @BookChatWithPat8668

Have You Ever Bought a Book Because it Had ....
1. A Funny Title?
2. A Shocking Title?
3. A Title that sounded like a line of poetry?
4. A Title Which Made Me ask Question?
5. A Heartwarming or Homely (or maybe Homey?) Title?
6. A Title with an Unusual Combination of Words?
7. A Fantastic or Magical Title?
8. A Title Which is a Contradiction or describes the Impossible?
9. Tag others

Greg at @anotherbibliophilereads has a poem made of book titles at youtu.be/9uw5U9dwvlQ?si=1z6CaoY9LdUUvdkj

Books mentioned:
That Half-Barbaric Twang by Karen Linn
Man, Fuck this House by Brian Asman
African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia (1995) by Cecelia Conway
Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichel
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
The Hundred Thousand Fools of God by Theodore Levin
Cigarettes are Sublime by Richard Klein (1994)

I Tag:
@thelefthandedreader6632
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
@apoetreadstowrite
@LiterateTexan
@bighardbooks770
@strangementalitypaperYT

I also select the best 100 books of the century: Friday Reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-07-12 | #booktube #fridayreads #nytimes

I talk about my reading for the week and blather for a bit about the New York Times list of the top 100 books of the century (so far).

Here's the list:
nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k0.K1cv.Cua5bl4mJnLV&smid=url-share

Books mentioned:
Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Arthur Ashe a Life by Raymond Arsenault
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

Channels mentioned:
@davidnovakreadspoetry
@saintdonoghue
@jack_edwards

I do the Counting the Days tag!

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-07-09 | #CountingTheDays #tags #TagTuesday
#CountingTheDays #tags #TagTuesday
COUNTING THE DAYS Tag
Created by @ToReadersItMayConcern and @ProseAndPetticoats

I was tagged by @bookchatwithpat

1. What is a book that excites you because of its cover?
2. … because of its author?
3. … because of its premise?
4. … because of its style?
5. … because of its influence?
6. … because of its emotional weight?
7. … because of its sense of humour?
8. … because of its challenge or difficulty?
9. Tag some people.

I tag:
@Eldertalk
@MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm
@strangementalitypaperYT
@RaynorReadsStuff
@LibroParadiso-ep4zt
@bighardbooks770

Books mentioned:
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo - Hiroshige
Devil House - John Darnielle
Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
Ink: the Indelible Mayo Williams by Clifford Murphy
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Murder on the Orient Express
The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Bill Bryson - At Home
Time Regained - Marcel Proust

I dont want what theyre selling. Friday Reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-07-05 | #booktube #fridayreads

I talk about @LiterateTexan 's go-fund-me. Give if you can at gofund.me/f56cdf17
Also Daniel Emmett's Virginia Minstrels
Retail bookstores vs. used bookstores.
The Supreme Court and my representative's email

If you want a one-month trial of Steve Reads from @saintdonoghue send me you email address qcvbooktube@gmail.com

I also recommend checking out @fictionesque1992 for some quality booktubin'.

Books mentioned:
James by Percival Everett
The Death of the Artist by William Deresiewicz
Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Arthur Ashe: a Life by Raymond Arsenault
Levels of the Game by John McPhee

its not that bad tag on a day when it might be that bad

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-07-02 | #booktube #tagtuesday
This is an original tag created by Melinda ‪@awebofstories‬
I was tagged by @BookChatWithPat8668 . Melinda writes, "There are a lot of things we are told we shouldn't do as readers and, honestly, those things really aren't bad!"

Prompts:
1. Do you dog-ear your books?
2. Do you annotate your books?
3. Do you roll covers or break spines when you read?
4. Do you listen to something while you read?
5. Do you read in the bathroom?
6. Do you read in water (such as in the bathtub, in a pool, etc)?
7. Do you DNF?
8. Do you ever read ahead or skip to the end of a book?
9. Are you book-polygamous (i.e., read more than one book at a time)?
10. Do you own more books than bookshelf space?
BONUS: Do you ever take a book without leaving a book at a Little Free Library?
11. Tag some people.

I tag:
@MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm
@strangementalitypaperYT
@TheGrapeJellyLibrary
@aaronfacer

June-July Interface Report

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-06-30 | #booktube

The Most Pretentious Mid-year Freakout?

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-06-25 | #booktube #tagtuesday

I do the Mid-year Freakout tag, because @davidnovakreadspoetry and @saintdonoghue said I had to. Now you have to as well. It is mandatory, buckaroo.

The Prompts:
1. Best book you've read so far in 2024
2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2024
3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to.
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.
5. Biggest disappointment.
6. Biggest surprise.
7. Favourite new author. (Debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favourite character.
10. Book that made you cry.
11. Book that made you happy.
12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?

Books mentioned:
Bleak House - Dickens
Nuclear War: a Scenario - Annie Jacobsen
Within a Budding Grove - Proust
James - Percival Everett
Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams - Clifford R. Murphy
Carrie - Stephen King
Henrik Ibsen's plays
Dune - Frank Herbert
True Grit - Charles Portis
Blood done sign my name - Timothy Tyson
Levels of the Game - John McPhee
Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Bright Balkan Morning - multiple authors
Trilogy - Jon Fosse
Selected Short Stories - Anton Chekhov

Other channels mentioned:
@BookTimewithElvis
@brenboothjones

Republican Tennis and Thriftbooks refunds: Friday Reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-06-21 | #booktube #fridayreads

I talk about my reading for the week and look forward to next week.

Books mentioned:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Showdown on the Hogback by Louis L'Amour
Levels of the Game by John McPhee
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Marion Meade
Upon Further Review by Mike Pesca

I do the Read Smarter Tag

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-06-19 | #booktube #tagtuesday
THE READ SMART TAG
This is an original tag created by ‪@ToReadersItMayConcern and @ProseAndPetticoats

I was tagged by @BookChatWithPat8668 and @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk

Read Smart Tag questions:
1. What is your strategy to stay focused and engaged while reading?
2. How does your environment influence your focus and what can you do to optimise it?
3. What methods do you use to retain and recall information from what you've read?
4. How do you approach difficult or challenging material?
5. What role do note-taking and annotation play in your reading process?
6. How do you balance reading for pleasure with reading for personal or professional development?
7. What is the importance of setting reading goals?
8. What are some strategies for overcoming reading slumps or lack of motivation?
9. Tag some people.

@LibroParadiso-ep4zt
@strangementalitypaperYT
@ThatReadingGuy28

Channels mentioned:
@LeafbyLeaf

Fake Rebel Girls and other Amazon rip-offs: Friday reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-06-14 | #booktube #fridayreads #riotgrrrl #dune

Kathleen Hanna's Instagram post: instagram.com/reel/C69Mzd6uvv4

Here's a lithub article about the fake Hanna memoirs:
lithub.com/a-bunch-of-fake-kathleen-hanna-biographies-were-released-on-the-same-day-as-her-new-memoir

I talk about my reading for the week (mostly Dune) and look forward to next week. Then I discuss Kathleen Hanna's memoir Rebel Girl and the Amazon imitations thereof. Is this a sign of things to come?

Also: I do NOT recommend just asking Steve Donoghue a fact-boy question!

Books mentioned:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna

June on the Range: Call of the Canyon Not American enough!

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-06-13 | #booktube #juneontherange #western

I review the "western"(?) novel Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey. Spoilers abound.

Books mentioned:
Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
Showdown on Hogback by Louis L'Amour
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Michael K. Vaughan's Thoughts on Westerns:
youtu.be/YvweiAOYAQA?si=o75EXnGMO96fy4Ty

Louise goes to Arrakis - Friday Reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-06-07 | #booktube #fridayreads
Dune in June, June on the Range
I talk about the books I'm reading, and read a poem called "Song" by Louise Glück.
Does it help to know the news at the time of the poem's creation? Does the poem stand on its own without knowing?

Books mentioned:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Man, Fuck this House by Brian Asman
Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
Yondering by Louis L'Amour
Off the Mangrove Coast by Lous L'Amour
Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Marion Meade

Booktubers mentioned:
@brenboothjones

Bren's video: youtu.be/QZtgFkTVN0s?si=WvDKMKBLL_kdxpwU

Joan Soble wrote a nice essay on the Glück poem that I read:
soalready.blogspot.com/2020/10/singing-praises-for-louise-glucks-song.html

Roadmap of Your Life

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-06-05 | #booktube #tagtuesday
I do the Roadmap of Your Life Tag.

This is an original tag created by Tristan @Tristan-L-Space-Books @Tristan-L-Space-Books
I was tagged by Pat @BookChatWithPat8668

There are only two prompts:

1.)What is a book that reminds you of or takes place in each place that you've lived? This could mean country, state/province, city/town, and or apartment/house. Just come up with a book that really resonates with you and the time you spent in each place where you've had a mailing address!

2.) Since a roadmap not only shows you where you've been, but also where you're going, what is a book that reminds you of or takes place in your next destination? Or a place you'd like to live in?

Books Mentioned:
Queens New York: Dick and Jane
Long Island New York: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
New York, NY: A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Seattle, WA: Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
Long Island City: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Jersey City, NJ: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
Central Virginia: Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington
Providence, RI: Fargo, Rock City by Chuck Klosterman
Pinnacle, NC: The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Berea, KY: Through Another Lens: My Years with Edward Weston by Charis Wilson
Ararat, NC: The Gods Drink Whiskey by Stephen T. Asma
Jackson, MS: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Winston-Salem, NC: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Pittsburgh, PA: Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

I tag:
@MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm
@LiterateTexan
@EveningReader
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk

May reads/June TBR

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-05-31 | #booktube #fridayreads
I discuss some reading from May including:

Stories of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
Carrie by Stephen King
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Man, Fuck this House by Brian Asman
"Laying Down a Wine Cellar" (1937) by Evelyn Waugh
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
True Grit by Charles Portis

Books for June
Dune by Frank Herbert
Levels of the Game by John McPhee
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Marion Meade

Other books mentioned:
The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

One Book to Satisfy All Prompts?: Friday Reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-05-24 | #booktube #fridayreads

I talk about the books I've read this week. Is a movie ever better than the book? Can you answer all prompts with a single book? I recommend the movie "American Fiction."

Books mentioned:
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Carrie by Stephen King
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
True Grit by Charles Portis

Channels mentioned:
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
@anotherbibliophilereads
@heathereads
@noteworthyfiction

I do the Isaac Newton Tag

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-05-21 | This is an original tag, The Sir Isaac Newton Tag, created by @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk I was tagged by @BookChatWithPat8668
These are the prompts:
1. Adopted or sent away or abandoned. A book with a character that is adopted, sent away or abandoned
2. Use or measurement of time. A book where time is a crucial element.
3. Test of strength. A book where the character has to pass a test of strength.
4. Character with a dark side or a temper. A book where a character has a dark side or a temper.
5. Quest destroys personal life. A book where the quest is deemed so big the character either chooses to have no personal life or it is destroyed.
6. Questionable Decision. A book where the main character makes a questionable decision.
7. Scale Change. A book with an object or a place that goes through a scale change.
8. Falling or something to do with gravity. A book where something or someone is falling. Or where gravity plays a part.
9. Red Herring/False Trail/Use of codes. A book with a red herring, a false trail or quest or the use of codes.
10. Revenge/Punishment. A book with an element of revenge or punishment.
11. Rise and fall. A book with a rise in status followed by a catastrophic fall.
12. A Genius. Which writer to you is a genius or a book with a character that is a genius.
13. Tag some others.
I tag:
@aaronfacer
@noteworthyfiction
@JoeSpivey02
@heathereads
@LiteraryHiker
@TheBookedEscapePlan
@MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm

Books Mentioned
Twins by Marcy Dermansky
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Carrie by Stephen King
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
"Falling" by James Dickey poetryfoundation.org/poems/42716/falling-56d22155e5c45
"The Gold Bug" and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Video Mentioned:
Alice Munro Saved Booktube from @heathereads
youtu.be/D_zZOv3FkIg?si=1YRJzpX0Wj0mde7f

My Draft for the Western Canon Part 2

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-05-18 | #booktube #westerncanon

I embark on a fool's errand: trying to construct a second part of @saintdonoghue 's Western Canon Starter Kit.

The original series of WCSK videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLOYxZZyoQdSS7Miptjwtav-udSJVOZ14

Friday Reads: Kindles and big square books

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-05-17 | I talk about my Kindle Paperwhite and Libby and Edgar Allan Poe and Westerns, particularly those that I can read for free on my Kindle.

Books Mentioned:
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Carrie by Stephen King

Dont you forget about me on Tag Tuesday

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-05-14 | #booktube #tagtuesday

This tag was created by @BookwormAdventureGirl
and inspired by @BookishTexan

I think I was tagged by Allen at @bighardbooks770

The Don’t You Forget About Me tag has four prompts:

You decide how many books to share with each prompt.
1. Clean Slates: books you've read that you don't remember anything about.
2. Genie's Lamp: books you wish you could forget.
3. Forgotten Gems: book you think need more love.
4. Forget Me Nots: books you will always remember.

Books mentioned:
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
East Goes West by Younghill Kang
No-no Boy by John Okada
"Funes the Memorious" by Jorge Luis Borges
"Death and the Compass" by Jorge Luis Borges

Channels mentioned:
@BookChatWithPat8668
@davidnovakreadspoetry

Tag some cool people who love books.

I tag:
@JessBookgirlTV
@KDbooks
@aaronfacer

I saw what you did. Friday Reads

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-05-10 | #booktube #fridayreads
I talk about another phrase that I dislike. We also finished two books and started one.
Talk about the current Horror Mayhem event (Poe!) and the upcoming Summer of Sport.
Is the Washington Post better than the New York Times for a bookish person?
I contributed to a Mountain Goats tribute album and you can hear it on Bandcamp at: mountaingoatsshitposting.bandcamp.com/album/heretic-pride-covers

Books mentioned:
Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Poems by Randall Jarrell

The Library Tag

Quaint And Curious Volumes 2024-05-07 | #booktube #tagtuesday

THE LIBRARY TAG

An Original Tag created by @BookBuds

I was tagged by Pat at @BookChatWithPat8668

A message from @BookBuds :

A new original tag from Book Buds! The Library Tag!! Did you know Book Buds films right next to a library? We had to make this tag! Let’s talk about your library habits! We have questions for BOTH those of you that go to the library AND those of you that don’t! Answer the questions that apply to you.

If you DO go to the library… (answer these)
1. How often do you go to the library?
2. Do you belong to more than one library system?
3. What percent of books you read come from the library?
4. Do you listen to audiobooks or get e-books from the library or are you hooked on Audible or Amazon or something else?
5. Did you go to storytime at the library as a kid?
6. Have you ever borrowed a movie or video game from your library?
7. Have you ever gotten fined for returning books late? If so, how do you feel about that?
8. Do you attend special events, groups or book sales at the library?
9. Have you ever given or taken a book from a little free library, a book box or a book swap?
10. Bonus! Does your librarian know you by name?
11. Tag some friends!

If you DON’T go to the library… (answer these)
1. Why the heck not?
2. Where do you get your books from?
3. Have you ever had a library card or do you have one now?
4. When was the last time you stepped foot in the library?
5. Have you ever gone to an event at your library?
6. Do you have little free libraries or book boxes or book swaps where you live? Show us a picture if you do.
7. Tag some friends!

I tag:
@thelefthandedreader6632
@LiterateTexan
@bighardbooks770
@saintdonoghue