an enthusiastic reader
Book Review: The Known World
updated
#artreadathon #Framed!
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
Hold Still, A Memoir With Photographs, Sally Mann
This video contains art by Alice Neel and Sally Mann
Co-hosts of Framed! September 2024 (Announcement video links below)
@heathergregg9975 Heather youtube.com/watch?v=ps9aPbLw6Hs&t=66s
@HannahsBooks youtube.com/watch?v=NZCdT2kAoj0
@anotherbibliophilereads youtube.com/watch?v=A9ymucmMVD0
@lindysmagpiereads youtube.com/watch?v=vQEow9OhMg4
Prompts:
1. Read a book focused on art. (fiction or nonfiction)
2. Experience art.
3. (BONUS) Create art OR tell us about a piece of art you personally find meaningful.
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
GoodReads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Threads: @an.enthusiastic.reader
youtube.com/watch?v=b2kc5nHaCcI&t=959s
I was tagged by Priscilla @EveningReader.
youtube.com/watch?v=nalez4w1VS8&lc=UgznvEksgeQCStASi6B4AaABAg.A7Cv08hNnK5A7EaAk1ZdgB
Prompts
1.Who is your favorite phenomenal woman author?
2. What book features your favorite phenomenal woman character?
3. If you were creating a book prize, which book by a phenomenal woman author would you choose?
Books/Authors Mentioned
Mary Gaitskill: Veronica; Two Girls, Fat and Thin; Mare; Somebody With a Little Hammer: Essays
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest Gaines
Accordion Crimes, Annie Proulx
I tag:
Brian @bookishTexan
Allen @bighardbooks770
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
GoodReads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Threads: @an.enthusiastic.reader
#booktube #fridayreads #recentreads #elizabethstrout #olivekitteridge #lucybarton #griffindunne #edwardalbee
Books Mentioned:
Consent: A Memoir, Jill Ciment
Margo's Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe
The Friday Afternoon Club, A Family Memoir, Griffin Dunne
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Philip Gefter
Rereading Elizabeth Strout Novels as a Balm for the Soul
Lucy By the Sea
Olive, Again
Reading Now
The God of the Woods, Liz Moore
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
GoodReads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Threads: @an.enthusiastic.reader
#booktube #fridayreads #recentreads #Toibin #LongIslandCompromise
#LongIsland #ishiguro #geraldinebrooks
Books Mentioned:
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
Collected Works, Lydia Sandgren
Long Island, Colm Toibin
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Long Island Compromise, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Bonus Recommendations!
The Book Cougars Podcast
Episode 209-Interview with Sara Paretsky
bookcougars.com/blog-1/2024/episode209?rq=209
youtube.com/watch?v=EmxAUz3ql20
New York Times Book Podcast
Conversation with Colm Toibin
nytimes.com/2024/05/03/books/review/a-conversation-with-colm-toibin.html
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
GoodReads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Threads: @an.enthusiastic.reader
Books mentioned:
The Beautiful Visit, Elizabeth Jane Howard
A Change of Climate, Hilary Mantel
James, Percival Everett
Eventide, Kent Haruf
The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
The Searcher, Tana French
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, ed. John Freeman
Eric Karl Anderson's video about Paul Auster
youtube.com/watch?v=cl4DWFcYgi4&t=31s
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
GoodReads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Threads: @an.enthusiastic.reader
#fridayreads #books #booktube #jamesmcbride #ausubel #literaryfiction #historicalfiction #frozenriver #underworld #delillo #reading #bass2023
Thanks for watching my wrap-up of books from the past couple of weeks.
Books Mentioned:
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon
Best American Short Stories 2023, ed. Min Jin Lee
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, Ramona Ausubel
Snow, John Banville
Best short stories from BASS 2023:
The Master Mourner, Benjamin Erlich
The Company of Others, Sara Freeman
Annunciation, Lauren Groff
The Mine, Nathan Harris
The Muddle, Sana Krasikov
Peking Duck, Ling Ma
Supernova, Kosiso Ugwueze
It Is What It Is, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloom (my favorite)
Book Tube Channels Mentioned
Gina's new video channel
youtube.com/watch?v=eNoe8HNG4Ow
@lazycowliving8689
Shawn the Book Maniac and I discuss Don Delillo!
youtube.com/watch?v=TaSIMH8MGTk&t=1s
@shawnthebookmaniac6275
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
GoodReads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Threads: @an.enthusiastic.reader
Please forgive the short black screen jump at the beginning of the video!
#fridayreads #books #booktube #kentharuf #jamesmcbride #ausubel #literaryfiction #historicalfiction #frozenriver
Thanks for watching my wrap-up of books from the past couple of weeks.
Books Mentioned:
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon
Best American Short Stories 2023, ed. Min Jin Lee
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, Ramona Ausubel
Book Tube Channels Mentioned
Book Chat With Pat
youtube.com/@BookChatWithPat8668
@bookchatwithpat8668
Guilty Feet on Ellen Gilchrist
youtube.com/watch?v=bpf3aJo_LFs&t=1046s
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
GoodReads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Threads: @an.enthusiastic.reader
Recent Reads
No One Goes Alone, Erik Larson
The Wren, The Wren, Anne Enright
Last Night in Montreal, Emily St. John Mandel
Reading Now
Best American Short Stories 2023, ed. Min Jin Lee
Friends and Strangers, J. Courtney Sullivan
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Threads: @an.enthusiastic.reader
The Feast, Margaret Kennedy
The Rachel Incident, Caroline O'Donoghue
Faith, Jennifer Haigh
Night, Edna O'Brien
Reading now:
Best American Short Stories 2023, ed. Min Jin Lee
Secrets of Happiness, Joan Silber
Booktubers Mentioned
@EveningReader
@bookishsabrina
youtube.com/watch?v=ErR_MKuFmB0
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Correction #1: Tom Lake is set in Michigan, not Maine.
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
#fridayreads #ferrante #books #booktube #plans
Mini Book Haul
Study for Obedience, Sarah Bernstein
My Brilliant Friend, graphic novel by Lagani & Cerri (Elena Fernante)
A Change of Climate, Hilary Mantel
Ghosts, Edith Wharton
The Iliad, Homer, Emily Wilson, Translator
Reflections on Remember December #rememberDecember
Old Filth Trilogy (Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, Last Friends), Jane Gardam
Swann, Carol Shields
I forgot to talk about: Pardonable Lies, Maisie Dobbs #3, Jacqueline Winspear
What I’m Reading Now
The Feast, Margaret Kennedy
Night, Edna O’Brien (with Shawn the Book Maniac)
January Plans
Best American Short Stories, ed. Min-Jin Lee
The Rachel Incident, Caroline O’Donoghue
Study for Obedience, Sarah Bernstein
My Brilliant Friend, graphic novel by Lagani & Cerri (Elena Fernante)
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
This video is part of the Remember December book challenge. I have reformatted a particular volume of Charles Dickens' Christmas stories.
If you would like a complimentary digital version of this adaptation, please send me an email or voxer message and I will provide the download link to the file.
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
All About Remember December
Challenge hosts:
@bouquinsbooks @AnnNovella @aaronfacer @CriminOllyBlog @MsReadsAlot @Shellyish @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
How to participate: just reread one book. For those who need guidance, we have some prompts: Reread a book you’ve basically forgotten; Reread a book to find out how you really feel about it (one you disliked but think you may like now or one you regard as a favourite but haven't ever reread to check); Reread a book in a different way (change the format, edition, translation, language, read faster or slower, make it a buddy read…).
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Books mentioned:
A is for Alibi, Sue Grafton
Blue Monday, Nicci French
North Woods, Daniel Mason
Old Filth, Jane Gardam
@middleofthebookmarch
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
This is a new December reading theme hosted by the following booktubers:
@bouquinsbooks
@AnnNovella
@aaronfacer
@CriminOllyBlog
@MsReadsAlot
@Shellyish
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
How: just reread one book. For those who need guidance, we have some prompts:
Reread a book you’ve basically forgotten.
Reread a book to find out how you really feel about it (one you disliked but think you may like now or one you regard as a favourite but haven't ever reread to check)
Reread a book in a different way (change the format, edition, translation, language, read faster or slower, make it a buddy read…).
Scallydandling about the books: youtube.com/watch?v=SRRjDovY2ag
Ms. Reads A Lot:
youtube.com/watch?v=m07GXg4Pc5s
Another Bibiophile Reads:
youtube.com/channel/UC3pPdZfkc_fNr99krln_zsA
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
The Go-Between, LP Hartley
The Lager Queen of Minnesota, J. Stradal Ryan
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live, Peter Orner
Cloistered, My Years as a Nun: Catherine Coldstream
@booksimnotreading
@shawnbreathesbooks
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
Independent People, Haldor Laxness
Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov
In Memoriam, Alice Winn
Day, Michael Cunningham
Bliss Montage, Ling Ma
Reading Now
The Go-Between, LP Hartley
Doppleganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, Naomi Klein
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
The Lager Queen of Minnesota, J. Stradal Ryan
Coming Soon
The Fraud, Zadie Smith
North Woods, Daniel Mason
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
A New Name, Jon Fosse
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Bluesky: @readersonya.bsky.social
UPDATE! I found a video of June Jordan reading her own poem, Poem about My Rights. It's better hearing her read it, anyway.
youtube.com/watch?v=XUSTxhYu7-4
Original Tag by @Shellyish
youtube.com/watch?v=h4Tnm2cQuKg&t=0s
I was tagged by @EveningReader
youtube.com/watch?v=ZixtuvCrbEM&t=2s
1. What has surprised you the most about Booktube both in a good way and in a bad way?
2. How do you balance reading and Booktube with the rest of your life?
3. Have you ever thought about starting a Patreon?
4. Have you made any mistakes on Booktube?
5. Do you have any advice for new Booktubers?
6. What are your thoughts on the Youtube algorithm?
7a. How do you decide what videos to make?
7b. Are you ever overwhelmed with video ideas?
8. Have you regretted posting a video?
9a. Are the number of views/subscribers meaningful to you?
9b. Are the number of views/subscribers a measurement of success?
10. Are you disappointed by the growth on your channel?
11. Have you ever thought about quitting Booktube?
12a. What are the most touching comments?
12b. What are the most negative comments?
13. In regards to Booktube, where do you see yourself in five years?
Thanks for watching!
#booktube #books #annpatchett #ednaobrien #irishlit
This is a #fridayreads wrapup of books I've finished recently or are reading now.
Books mentioned:
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
A Pagan Place, Edna O'Brien
Independent People, Halldor Laxness
Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Love, Marriage, Alice Munro
@readandre-read
First six story wrapup for her #shortyseptember
youtube.com/watch?v=7EojqpMfgdA&t=1s
@shawnthebookmaniac6275
Friday Reads about A Pagan Place
youtube.com/watch?v=_AroajACA0I&t=1s
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Summer Reading Update #3
In this video I talk about two novels I've finished reading, my thoughts on re-reading, a quick jaunt to Rocky Horror via 1982, and forthcoming reading plans.
Books Mentioned:
The Romantic, William Boyd
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Old Filth, Jane Gardam
The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Harriet the Spy
Jane Eyre
These Happy Golden Years
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Booktubers Mentioned
Renee @@thelefthandedreader6632
This Non-Re-Reader may be Re-Reading some things
youtube.com/watch?v=w2D95l7d3Z8
Angelia @readandre-read
Time Warp Tuesday, Summer of 2013
youtube.com/watch?v=9_bQM4Ts7PI&t=1s
Yes, I have a new social media account
ReaderSonya@bsky.social
Email me at anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
I do not accept unsolicited requests for reviews except from publishers on a case by case basis.
1. Best book you’ve read so far
2. Best sequel you've read so far in
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. Favorite new author (debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush
9. Newest favorite 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?
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Recently read:
The Animators, Kayla Rae Whitaker
I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home, Lorrie Moore
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, Maureen Ryan
Reproduction, Louisa Hall
Reading now:
The Romantics, William Boyd
The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor
The Ashes of London, Andrew Taylor
Coming Up:
Life and Fate, Vassily Grossman
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Channels mentioned:
@eveningreader
Bonus info:
Podcast Recommendations
Rosie O'Donnell's Onward
(recent guests: Taylor Holland, Brigit Everett, Chita Rivera, Camryn Manheim, Cyndi Laupner)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Wiser Than Me
(recent guests: Carol Burnett, Gina McCarthy, Amy Tan, and more)
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Books I’ve recently read:
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets, Burkhard Bilger
Jamaica Inn, Daphne Du Maurier
I Have Some Questions For You, Rebecca Makkai
Sisterland, Curtis Sittenfeld
Casualties of Peace, Edna O’Brien
I is Another: Septology III-V, Jon Fosse
Summer Reading Plans & Currently Reading
Reading In Bed, Laura Frey's blog
reading-in-bed.com/2023/05/14/20-books-of-summer-2023
Reading now
The Animators, Kayla Rae Whitaker
The News From Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story, Joan Wickersham
Tentative June Plans
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, Maureen Ryan
The Rotter’s Club, Jonathan Coe
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor
The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor
I Am Homeless if this is Not My Home, Laurie Moore
Pride recommendations:
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein
Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile (highly rec. the audiobook where she sings at the end of each chapter.)
Recommended Videos about Mental Health May
Kim, @middleofthebookmarch
youtube.com/watch?v=wWA76ZOSit0
@MarilynMayaMendoza
youtube.com/watch?v=CgE177lwCr8
Tagged by Kelly @booksimnotreading
youtube.com/watch?v=fK6G5LXzkBk&t=3s
Original Tag: Steve Donoghue @SaintDonohue
youtube.com/watch?v=QlMpus1IDao
Rootin' Tootin June on the Range Tag
Prompts:
1 A way’s out west: have you ever been to the American West?
2 Dry Gulch - what’s the smallest town you’ve ever visited? How small is your town right now?
3 Where the buffalo roam: have you ever seen an American Bison in person?
Or: what’s the largest hoofed animal you’ve ever seen?
Or: do you have evidence that you live near coyotes?
4 Ol’ Doc Frye: what’s your history with westerns? Novels? Tv? Movies?
5 Diamond Lil’ at the Rialto saloon: what’s your relationship with alcohol?
Ever had a friendship with a bartender?
6 the city slicker from back East: what do you consider the best western you’ve ever read?
7 The man with the badge? Have you ever been in charge of other people? What’s the most authority you’ve ever handled? Would you be good at it?
8 The Tombstone Kid: have you ever fired a gun? Been a gun aficionado? Been shot?
9 It ain’t the bullet that gets you, it’s the fall: How would you ideally like to cash in your chips?
10 Tag some owlhoots!
#books #bookdesign #bookcovers #booktube #typography
@stalkingkafka
youtube.com/watch?v=Lc3nD-nj9rY
@eveningreader
youtube.com/watch?v=6UhjQmwKsEg&lc=UgxVzvL5WCclbgeFnXF4AaABAg.9q6elwkoZpk9q7MAPuThpf
Prompts:
1. Best Colours
2. Best Typography
3. Best Simple Cover
4. Best End Pages
5. Best Map
6. Best Naked Hardcover
7. Best Back Cover
8. Best Chapter Headers
9. Best Spine
10. Best Drawings
11. Best Cover
Bonus: Worst Cover
I tag Kelly @booksimnotreading
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
#books #booktube #fridayreads #recentreads #literature #memoir #poetry
Books mentioned:
Corrections in Ink, Keri Blakinger
The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen
You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Maggie Smith
The Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Cespedes, tr. Ann Goldstein
Games and Rituals, stories by Katherine Heiny
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
What I’ve read recently. #booktube #fridayreads #recentreads #trespasses #peopleapril #books #reading #memoir #novels
Books Mentioned:
Indelicacy, Amina Cain
Trespasses, Louise Kennedy
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Gamus
Corrections in Ink, Keri Blakinger
The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen
You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Maggie Smith
Best American Short Stories, 2022, ed. Andrew Sean Greer
The strongest stories:
The Little Woman from the Capital, Yohanca Delgado
The Wind, Lauren Groff
Detective Dog, Gish Jen
*Post, Alice McDermott (my favorite)
Bears Among the Living, Kevin Moffett
The Meeting, Alix Ohlin
The Beyoglu Municipality Wast Management Orchestra, Kenan Orhan
Mr. Ashok's Monument, Sanjena Sathian
Elephant Seals, Meghan Louise Wagner
Shoutout to my two new favorite channels
Angelia @readandre-read
Priscilla @EveningReader
#PeopleApril
youtu.be/3ubp8p3qAPM
Ros at Scallydandlingaboutthebooks2711
Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks
#PeopleApril announcement video
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
youtube.com/watch?v=3_hsrOU8-_w
I was tagged by @eveningreader
youtube.com/watch?v=CmcIcDP_YnY&t=1s
Please check out these channels!
Prompts:
Name a song that always makes you happy.
Name a song that’s a great fit when you’re in a pensive mood.
Name the song that changed your taste in music
Name a recent song that you’ve just discovered and loved
Name three bands or artist that you love
What instrument would you like to be able to play?
Name a novel with music at the center of the narrative
Tag people.
Here are some songs:
youtube.com/watch?v=R7BUG8LOd8A (Kate)
youtube.com/watch?v=fugRvM6s5fc (Los Gardenias)
youtube.com/watch?v=kL9wJAND1WI (How Can You Mend...)
youtube.com/watch?v=9k4jTCmEYZY (Old Yellow Moon)
youtube.com/watch?v=BSFsMIqCijo (Los Angeles)
Books mentioned
Accordion Crimes, Annie Proulx
I tag:
@BookishTexan (Brian from Bookish)
@lindysmagpiereads (Lindy)
@bighardbooks770 (Allen)
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Books Mentioned:
Known To Evil, Walter Mosley
We're Taking Only What We Need, Stephanie Powell Watts
The Color of Water, James McBride
Trespasses, Louise Kennedy
Best American Short Stories: 2022
Indelicacy, Amina Cain
Sarum: The Novel of England, James Rutherford
Watching:
The Mandalorian (rewatch)
Poker Face (forgot to mention)
Survivor
Top Chef
Looking forward to:
Yellowjackets (S2)
Succession (S4 final season)
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
#booktube #tagvideo #books
The Tell Me the Truth tag was created by Shannon's Bookish Musings and Music
@ShannonsChannel
Here's her original video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHGvr...
Gina's version
youtube.com/watch?v=enw6tWi4OZs&t=606s
Please forgive me for misprounouncing your last name, Gina!
@ginastanyerbooks
Kelly's version
youtube.com/watch?v=N9hbzFWGZUQ
@booksimnotreading
Prompts:
1. Do your friends/family/coworkers know about your booktube channel? If so, do they watch?
2. When watching booktube videos do you ever speed them up to save time?
3. Do you watch videos from all the booktubers you subscribe to? All of their videos or just some?
4. Do you watch/subscribe to everyone who subscribes to you, or only channels you really want to see?
5. Do you watch/subscribe to book tubers based more on content or personality?
6. Do you listen to booktube videos while doing other things, or do you sit and watch the video?
7. Tag some Booktubers!
email: anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Books Mentioned:
The Other Name, Jon Fosse, Tr. Damion Searls
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
The Levant Trilogy, Olivia Manning
August is a Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
The Waiting, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Tr. Janet Hong
What's Lurking on my Kindle? youtube.com/watch?v=lkTst3F2aS0&t=660s
Shawn the Book Maniac
@shawnthebookmaniac6275
#booktube #ebooks #kindle #audiobooks #archives #books #fiction #essays
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Backlist and new releases: Here are my favorite reads from last year.
Thank you for watching.
Backlist:
Jane Austen, A Life, Carol Shields
The Balkan Trilogy, Olivia Manning
Milkman, Anna Burns
The Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker
2022 Releases
The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty
Run Towards the Danger, Sarah Polley
Elena Knows, Claudia Pineiro
The Colony, Audrey Magee
Lessons, Ian McEwan
Fellowship Point, Alice Elliott Dark
Life Without Children, Roddy Doyle
The Dickens Boy, Thomas Kenneally
Lucy by the Sea, Elizabeth Strout
#booktube #bestof2022 #books #literaryfiction #essays #biography
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Books I'm Not Reading's version:
youtube.com/watch?v=nJZKLYgjQks&t=3s&ab_channel=BooksI%27mNotReading
Originial Tag: Adam, Momento Mori
youtube.com/watch?v=yydtcQRDtMU&t=0s&ab_channel=mementomori
Horse Soup, Vladimir Sorokin
nplusonemag.com/issue-40/fiction-drama/horse-soup
Prompts
1. The longest book you read this year and the book that took you the longest to finish.
2. A book you read in 2018 that was outside of your comfort zone.
3. How many books did you re-read in 2018?
4. Favorite re-read of 2018.
5. A book you read for the first time in 2018 that you look forward to re-reading in the future.
6. Favorite single short story or novella that you read in 2018.
7. Mass Appeal: A book you liked and would recommend to a wide variety of readers.
8. Specialized Appeal: A book you liked but would be hesitant to recommend to just anyone.
9. Reflect on your year as a bookish content creator (goals met, good/bad memories, favorite videos you made, etc).
10. Tag some fellow bookish content creators.
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Books mentioned:
The Colony, Audrey Magee
Desert Star, Michael Connelly
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
The Other Name, Jon Fosse
Vlogmas:
The Grimm Reader
youtube.com/watch?v=QE1nI2COhcA&ab_channel=TheGrimmReader
Pastroy Time
youtube.com/watch?v=qQPr7ptBhRI&ab_channel=PaSTORYTime
Featured food:
Bean burrito smothered in regional green chile
Green chile plate
Pistachio Orange Peel Chocolate shortbread
Gingerbread
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Books discussed in this video:
Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris
The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
Corinne, Rebecca Morrow
Flight, Lynn Steger Strong
Night of the Living Rez: Stories, Morgan Talty
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World, Anthony Doerr
My most-watched video about designing a book of Chekov's short stories: youtu.be/M5zndNlbvow
Contact info:
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Good Reads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Currently Reading
Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty
Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars, Francesca Wade
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the World, Anthony Doerr
Recently Read
Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama (by) Bob Odenkirk
The Balkan Trilogy, Olivia Manning
Best Short Stories 2022: The O Henry Prize Winners, Valeria Luiselli
(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, Zikora, about a man who ghosts his pregmant girlfriend.)
Highlights:
Face Time, Lorrie Moore, about a family during Covid saying goodbye to their hospitalized father via facetime.
Horse Soup, Vladimir Sorokin, tr. Max Lawton, about the time of the fall of the Soviet Empire when a man is released from a Russian prison camp and develops a fetish for watching a particular woman eat.
An Unlucky Man, Samanta Schweblin, tr. Meagan McDowell, about a family, during a medical emergency and an unforgettable encounter with a stranger.
Rainbows, Joseph O'Neill, about a middle-aged woman who accuses a local boy of inappropriate behavior toward her daughter. The son's family is the woman in question's dry cleaner and there are many implications after the accusation.
Wish List for 2022
The Other Name, Jon Fosse
Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson
Corinne, Rebecca Morrow (Who is Rebecca Morrow?)
Foster, Claire Keegan
Flight, Lyn Steger Strong
Desert Star, Renee Ballard #3, Michael Connelly
Trespasses, Louise Kennedy
Contact info
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
GoodReads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781
instagram @an.enthusiastic.reader
Playing around with Mastodon: @anenthusiasticreader@zirk.us
#ianmcewan #elizabethstrout #patbarker #fridayreads #booktube #reading #fiction
Books mentioned:
Lessons, Ian McEwan
Fellowship Point, Alice Elliott Dark
The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
Lucy By the Sea, Elizabeth Strout
Newsroom Confidential, Margaret Sullivan
Videos mentioned:
Jill at @thebookbully
youtube.com/watch?v=E9fg1DcO9c8&t=1s&ab_channel=TheBookBully
Twitter @ReaderSonya
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781-sonya?shelf=2020
Email: anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
Books Mentioned
The Last Picture Show, Larry McMurtry
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Jane Austen: A Life, Carol Shields
Regeneration and The Eye in the Door, Pat Barker
Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro, tr. Frances Riddle
I am taking a social media break between July 20 and Labor Day. You can contact me via email or voxer anytime.
anenthusiasticreader@icloud.com
voxer: sonya_enthusiasticreader
@CriminOlly
youtube.com/watch?v=zr4DfzxqYZM&ab_channel=jim%27sbooksreading%26stuff
Books Mentioned:
The Morning Star, Karl Ove Knausgård
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Pass the Butterworms, Tim Cahill
The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber
The Stand, Stephen King
Prompts:
E is for Ernest. What is the importance of being Hemingway?
(that wasn't a true prompt, just a little joke)
E is for elephant. What is the biggest book you have read this year?
E is for English. Who do you consider the greatest English novelist?
If English is not your first language, what was the first book you read in English?
E is for Elantris. What is your favorite book or series by Brandon Sanderson?
E is for experimental. Have you read any experimental books?
E is for e-books. Do you prefer physical books or e-books?
E is for exploration. What is your favorite travel book?
E is for Elene. If you have grandkids, kids, pets etc...beginning with the letter E and you want to show them, this is your opportunity.
E is for elf. What is your favorite fantasy creature?
E is for extraterrestrial. What is your favorite book about another world (or your favorite planet, real or fictitious)?
E is for exodus. What is the most interesting book you have read about an exodus?
Books Mentioned
The Dickens Boy, Thomas Keaneally
Payment in Blood, Elizabeth George
Lucy by the Sea, Elizabeth Strout
The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li
Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson
Milkman, Anna Burns
The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
The Gilead Books, Marilynne Robinson
The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
Prompts:
1. Best book you have read so far this year
2. Best sequel you've read so far this year
3. New release you haven't read yet from this year, but you want to
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of 2022.
5. Biggest disappointment this year.
6. Biggest surprise this year.
7. Favourite new author.
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favourite character.
10. Book that made you cry this year.
11. Book that made you happy this year.
12. Most beautiful book you've bought or received so far this year.
13. What do you need to read by the end of the year?
Note: I didn't mention the terrible things that happened this week in Texas but I am so sorry and upset. I don't know if we can break out of this. So I didn't talk about it but I'm thinking about it.
Books mentioned:
Trust, Hernan Diaz
Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Life Without Children, Roddy Doyle
The Engagement, Georges Simenon
The Candy House, Jennifer Egan
Twitter @ReaderSonya
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781-sonya?shelf=2020
Instagram: instagram.com/sonya.unrein
Books mentioned:
The Liar's Club, Mary Karr
Only Happiness Here: In Search of Elizabeth von Arnim, Gabrielle Carey
Maise Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, Dawnie Walton
The Dickens Boy, Thomas Keneally
The Candy House, Jennifer Egan
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory, Sarah Polley
Booktubers mentioned:
@BrittaBohler
#booktube #fridayreads #JenniferEgan #ThomasKeneally #books #readers #readingcommunity
I have a new microphone and I still don't know how to minimize my wiggling that is picked up on the mic. Sorry! I'll work on it.
Books Mentioned:
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation / Maud Newton
Milkman / Anna Burns
The Best American Short Stories, 2022, ed. Jesamyn Ward
The Little Stranger/ Sarah Waters
The Maid/ Nita Prose
A Visit From the Goon Squad/ Jennifer Egan
The Candy House/ Jennifer Egan
Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage/ Heather Havrilesky
The Sea of Tranquility/ Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven/ Emily St. John Mandel
The Liar's Club/ Mary Karr
The Dickens Boy/ Thomas Keneally
A Family Madness/ Thomas Keneally
The Daughters of Mars/ Thomas Keneally
Clementine, Carmelita, Dog / David Means
granta.com/clementine-carmelita-dog
Books Mentioned
The Last Thing You Surrender, Leonard Pitts, Jr.
The Long Fall, Walter Mosley
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
My Mother, Munchausen's, and Me: A True Story of Betrayal and a Shocking Family Secret, Helen Naylor
A True Novel, Minae Mizumura
The Love Songs of WEB DuBois, Honoree Fanone Jeffers
That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern
The Sea, John Banville
Love Letter, George Saunders
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/love-letter
Twitter @readersonya
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781-sonya?shelf=2020
Instagram: instagram.com/sonya.unrein
Thanks for watching.
Twitter @ReaderSonya
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781-sonya?shelf=2020
Instagram: instagram.com/sonya.unrein
The Birth Year Book Tag
youtu.be/SUweFIhQhwY
@CriminOlly
Great versions of this tag.
@MsReadsAlot
youtube.com/watch?v=JDI12CXcj8I&ab_channel=MsReadsAlot
@Another Bibliophile Reads
youtube.com/watch?v=HEcQttfiTJI&t=19s
Thanks for joining me at AN ENTHUSIASTIC READER for this fun tag. What books/movies have you loved that came out during the year you were born?
The questions:
1) Have you read any books published in the year you were born?
- If so, what's your favourite and why?
- Do you have any other favourites?
- If you haven't read any birth year books, which one do you pledge to read in the next 6 months and why have you chosen it?
2) Have you read any books published in the year you turned 18?
- If so, what's your favourite and why?
3) Of the last 10 books you read, how many were published before you were born?
- What were they? Did you prefer them to the newer books?
4) What's your favourite movie from your birth year and why?
5) What's your favourite movie from the year you turned 18 and why?
Books and Movies Mentioned
The Last Picture Show, Larry McMurtry
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Martin Beck #2) Maj Sjowall
Speak, Memory, V. Nabokov
Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
The Crystal World, JG Ballard I've always been curious about JG Ballard's writing.
Thinner, Richard Bachman
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
*Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
Vera, Elizabeth von arnim
King of Hearts, set in World War I
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woof?
Ghostbusters
Paris, Texas
Amadeus
All of Me
Purple Rain
A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott)
Against All Odds (most underwhelming)
Choose Me
Twitter @sonya_unrein
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781-sonya?shelf=2020
Instagram: instagram.com/sonya.unrein
youtube.com/watch?v=6_jFGB4EuVE&t=1s&ab_channel=Bookish
This video is my response.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
American Library Association Challenge Reporting
ala.org/tools/challengesupport/report
American Civil Liberties Association / Banned Books
aclu.org/issues/free-speech/artistic-expression/banned-books
Twitter @sonya_unrein
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781-sonya?shelf=2020
Instagram: instagram.com/sonya.unrein
Original Tag Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=Reb_YQUjuwk&t=1s&ab_channel=MsReadsAlot
Tag Questions:
1001 Lists - Do you follow any book lists? It can be prize list or a challenge like the Rory Gilmore challenge.
1001 Books - Approximately how many physical books do you currently own? How many e-books?
1001 Books Read - Approximately how many books have you read in your lifetime? Do you keep track?
1001 Arabian Nights - Have you read any stories from the Arabian Nights? Do you have a favorite? If you haven't read it, do you want to?
1001 Flavors - Do you have a favorite food or flavor?
1001 Pages - Have you read a book that is over 1001 pages? Is there one that you recommend and is worth the time? What is the longest book you have read?
1001 Buckets - Do you have a non-bookish bucket list? What is one thing on the list?
1001 Numbers - Do you have a lucky number? Is there a story behind it?
1001 Authors - Do you have a favorite author and/or genre?
1001 Activities - Do you have a favorite outdoor activity?
Modern Mrs. Darcy's What's Saving My Life Right Now
modernmrsdarcy.com/saving-my-life-2022
Books Mentioned:
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (listen to the audiobook!)
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Television shows:
Station Eleven, HBO Max
We Need to Talk About Cosby, Showtime
Twitter @sonya_unrein
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781-sonya?shelf=2020
Instagram: instagram.com/sonya.unrein
Book Tube Channels mentioned: Britta Bohler youtube.com/channel/UCpQsLKy0bh9hRZ3AWQzG-7g
Books Mentioned
The Morning Star, Karl Ove Knausgard
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
The Lost Daughter, Elene Ferrante
Vera, Elizabeth von Arnim
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home, Jami Attenberg
Twitter @sonya_unrein
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781-sonya?shelf=2020
Instagram: instagram.com/sonya.unrein
#books #booktube #2022TBR
Books mentioned:
Vera, Elizabeth von Arnim
The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
Eustace and Hilda, LP Hartley
This Rough Magic, Mary Stewart
A Question of Upbringing, Anthony Powell
The Power of the Dog, Thomas Savage
The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
Possession, AS Byatt
The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen
The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante
Home/Jack/Lila, Marilynne Robinson
Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy
The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
The Love Songs of WEB DuBois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Ancestor Trouble, Maud Newton
The Doloriad, Missouri Williams
Twitter @sonya_unrein
Voxer @sonya_enthusiasticreader
Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/1295781-sonya?shelf=2020
Instagram: instagram.com/sonya.unrein