Some Boswell, some Byron and some John Buchan! | Bookshelf Tour #3 Joe Spivey 2024-10-19 | Some Boswell, some Byron and some John Buchan! | Bookshelf Tour #3
A trip to the Vanity Fair! #victober Joe Spivey 2024-10-17 | Please entertain me with your attempts at the ‘Makepeace’ naming game! Try to keep both words monosyllabic for the best results. My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #victober
The BEST (and worst) Victorian openings - #victober Joe Spivey 2024-10-15 | Hull KR were slowly desolated at the weekend, but that’s not going to soften my aplomb this week! Since I’ve been loitering on the edges of Victober until now, I thought I’d charge in with a read-through of some excellent openings! Email - joespivey197@gmail.comInstagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #victober
A chatty catch-up before the Big Dance! Joe Spivey 2024-10-11 | One final check-in before Hull Kingston Rovers look to slay the big Lancastrian beasts of Wigan! It might be strange for us bookish hermits to consider, but please let me know if you’re connected with your local sports team, and also if you derive pleasure and solidarity from that connection! Email - joespivey197@gmail.com Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #catchup
Let’s read the newspaper! Joe Spivey 2024-10-09 | A turn has been taken that sees Joe Spivey read the news. Let me know if you revive the limp and ailing ‘legacy media’ with any of your pennies? Do you buy any papers, and if so which ones? Email - joespivey197@gmail.comInstagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #newspaper
Victober #1 - The Life of Charles Dickens! Joe Spivey 2024-10-08 | In we swoop with the first of my Victober videos. Charles Dickens is the man most zealously associated with this period, and Ackroyd’s biography (fulsomely abridged to an ample six hundred pages here) is an informative and entertaining book. Let me know which of Dickens’ books I should read later on this month⬇️Email - joespivey197@gmail.comInstagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #victober #dickens
A blockbuster mega-long Q&A! Joe Spivey 2024-10-06 | Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to this channel’s (minor) success. Let’s enjoy Victober and non-fiction November in the come months! Email - joespivey197@gmail.comInstagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube
Recommendations for Victober! Joe Spivey 2024-10-04 | You poorly suckers need to send me your questions for a massive TBR on Sunday! Thanks very much for the continued support! Good luck with your own Victober journeys! Email - joespivey197@gmail.comInstagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #victober
My first time reading Mark Twain! | The Innocents Abroad BOOK REVIEW Joe Spivey 2024-10-02 | You Americans have another star spangled offering that I’ve added to my collection! Even though Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are the ‘twain’ most often shoved under student’s chins, I’m sure that ‘The Innocents Abroad’ is just as arresting! My Instagram - joe_spivey_ My email - joespivey197@gmail.com #books #booktube #marktwain
Hitler, Wodehouse, Waugh AND Dr Johnson! | A Tuesday book-haul! Joe Spivey 2024-10-01 | I’m back with repentance and foolish tales of alcoholic abandon! I’ll be asking for questions for that 12 month celebration soon enough, so get those thinkers churning! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #bookhaul
A rant-riddled reaction to the latest TLS! Joe Spivey 2024-09-27 | Those uninterested by my personal vexation can skip to 6:30 for the beginning of the round-up! Anyone with leverage on Harper Collins, kindly get in touch! My email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Insta - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube
My recent reads | ft. Divine Intervention and bin-raiders! Joe Spivey 2024-09-25 | Two books for the price of one video! Plus you dear minions got to see social commentator Spivey at his discursive best! Please let me know, if you count yourself as a Believer or a Theist, what you made of my criticisms and, more importantly, how you would defend your faith in response! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #atheism #god #russiaukrainewar
Reading 1⭐️ reviews of books I love! Joe Spivey 2024-09-22 | Reading hatefully critical reviews of books we love can be an act of awful catharsis! Hopefully you enjoy my responses to these GoodReads diatribes! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #sundayspecial
The Evolution of a Booktuber Tag! Joe Spivey 2024-09-20 | Back with some more hodgepodge about my booktube journey and the changes therein. Let me know if you’ve noticed any changes from my October inception! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ I’m tagging ⬇️• @GuiltyFeat • @josietalksaboutbooks • @tiredgirlreads
Shaketember #1 - The Authorship Controversy! Joe Spivey 2024-09-18 | My flamboyant return to YouTube after a few days shying away in the shadows! Let me know if any of you are interested in the authorship controversy! My email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Insta - joe_spivey_#books #booktube #shakespeare
Bill Bryson’s ‘Notes From a Small Island’! Joe Spivey 2024-09-13 | A very nice surprise was there to greet me when I opened Bill Bryson’s best loved book! Be sure to let me know if it’s American fetishes of an idealised Britain that keep this book popular, or if it’s the accurate portrayal of British life included within! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #travel #britain
Am I more honest than a booktuber? Joe Spivey 2024-09-11 | Some marvellous prompts to test your candid fitness that I first saw answered by @readreadofficial! My email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #candid #tags
In the cradle of the critics! | Spivey preps for an essay! Joe Spivey 2024-09-09 | The final scraps of reading have been done before my 48 hour plunge into responses and thoughts on Middlemarch! Thank you to all participants in my first livestream. There’s sure to be some more in tow! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #essaywriting #essay
George Eliot’s magnum upus | Tenderness for the marginal in Middlemarch! Joe Spivey 2024-09-03 | Keep your eyes peeled for my livestream on Friday! Do not fear this munching Goliath folks, Middlemarch will hand you continuous joy. Here’s my mentioned FREEEE article ⬇️• jspivey.substack.com/p/a-freedom-too-far-why-the-addictsMy email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Insta - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #georgeeliot #classicbooks
What I’ll be reading in September AND a livestream announcement?! Joe Spivey 2024-09-01 | Plenty of books to be ravishing over the next four weeks! Johnson’s memoir is the one I most want to see swooping into my hands from the publishers. Please let me know about your enthusiasm for my touted Friday livestream! My email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #septembertbr #readinglist
George Eliot’s Middlemarch | An astonishing experience! Joe Spivey 2024-08-30 | Hold my beer while I enthuse about George Eliot’s skittling superiority as both a writer and a chronicler of zesty human contretemps! Pick up a copy wherever possible and dive right in… My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Insta - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #favourite
A catch-up after a week away! Joe Spivey 2024-08-28 | I may or may not be donning those specs on a regular basis! Thank you for your patience while life got very much in the way of my video-making! My Instagram - joe_spivey_ My email - joespivey197@gmail.com#books #booktube #catchup
Inside the life of a British politician! | Rory Stewart and righteous disillusionment! Joe Spivey 2024-08-20 | Apologies for my rather wayward and intellectually jaundiced presentation today. With a good night’s sleep I’ll be back to my best later this week! My Substack - jspivey.substack.com/p/unsleeve-those-prospects-a-levelMy email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #politics #memoir
A Satire on Vloggers! Joe Spivey 2024-08-18 | Another clipped-up gag fest of Spiveynian silliness. All those poked and prodded will hopefully take the comments in the intended good taste. All opinions are my own! My Instagram - joe_spivey_ My email - joespivey197@gmail.com#books #booktube #dailyvlog #vlog #satire
The Reader’s Profile Tag! Joe Spivey 2024-08-14 | It’s time for another tag! I have to credit @aaronfacer for bringing it to my attention. Please let me know about YOUR dinner party of literary characters down below ⬇️My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Insta - joe_spivey_#books #booktube #tagtuesday
Hitch-athon Part 3 - The Ten Commandments! Joe Spivey 2024-08-12 | I’m back on the horse ‘hitching’ a ride with the mordant atheists! Apologies if my new bronzed nature scares your children!Email me with ANY of your considerations and questions! - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #essay
The largest (and least necessary) book-haul I’ve ever shown! Joe Spivey 2024-08-07 | I’m back with an inexhaustible stash of books for us to peruse. Goodness knows where I’m going to stow all of these! Email - joespivey197@gmail.comInstagram - joe_spivey_#books #booktube #bookhaul
Is this the end of writing as we know it? Joe Spivey 2024-08-01 | Very many things to discuss on this subject! Please let me know your literary lifeguards for when the going’s touch and the waters are turbid and you just need an arm to drag you to safety! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Insta - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #writing #grammar
The dwindling days of Gore Vidal! | Hitch-athon #3 Joe Spivey 2024-07-29 | Here swoosh the vituperative stabs of Christopher Hitchens as he criticises a decrepit Gore Vidal! Please feel free to comment with any suggestions for our next ‘Arguably’ piece! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Insta - joe_spivey_ #booktube #books #essays
A Sunday talk about anything and everything! Joe Spivey 2024-07-28 | Women’s beach volleyball, PG Wodehouse, a Spivey short story AND a situational update on my running regime! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #olympics #sundayspecial #chattyvideo
Is insanity transmissible? | Will Self BOOK REVIEW Joe Spivey 2024-07-25 | We turn back the clock as another of my literary gatekeepers is revisited! It’s time to beckon something down from Self’s shelf! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #insanity #shortstory
Are women funny? | Hitch-athon part 2! Joe Spivey 2024-07-23 | More euphonic pleasantries this week with Christopher Hitchens defending a bizarre position that women are fundamentally unable to tickle our ribcage. Another of his gratuitous sessions swimming against the consensus! Read my mentioned Substack article HERE⬇️- jspivey.substack.com/p/orphans-of-the-storm-englishnessMy email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Insta - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #reading #essay
Brideshead Revisited BOOK REVIEW! Joe Spivey 2024-07-21 | Finally I have found myself couched in glorious prose and purposeful plotting over the last few days! I already know that Waugh will be a favourite of the future! The two venues at which to READ ME⬇️• openlettersreview.com• jspivey.substack.comMy email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #bookstube #reading
Let’s talk about blurbs… Joe Spivey 2024-07-18 | We’re turning our papered friends around today, to ask ourselves both how much information we derive from their blurbs and how much credit we ought to give these blurbs for their roles in the buying and reading experience! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #reading
Episode 1 - JFK and Robert Dallek! Joe Spivey 2024-07-16 | The first of many videos covering the essays of Christopher Hitchens! Today we re-examine JFK and his biographical treatment by a US historian. My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Insta - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #essaywriting #essay
“The hand of history is on our shoulders” - A chatty Sunday special! Joe Spivey 2024-07-14 | Just a few minutes for me to canalise my thoughts on a very significant day for two reasons. Today’s Twin Peaks will be the attempted but unsuccessful assassination of Donald Trump and the opportunity for England’s men to win a trophy for the first time in 58 years. My email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #currentaffairs #sundayspecial
A Huge Disappointment! | Crime and Punishment BOOK REVIEW Joe Spivey 2024-07-12 | Another sacred cow must be skewered! Unfortunately, especially seen as so many have emailed and messaged to wish me luck with my reading of Crime and Punishment, we’ve had to part company! My email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #dostoyevsky #crimeandpunishment
The Tag de France! Joe Spivey 2024-07-09 | Another opportunity to link my two favourite things; reading and professional cycling! Kudos to Gavin for his prompts. His channel is linked below⬇️youtube.com/@GenreBooks23?si=NcPM-4jY3cQGAwwkMy email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #tagtuesday
The Mid Year Book Tag! | My best and worst bits of 2024 (so far) Joe Spivey 2024-07-07 | Let’s go through the undulations of my reading year! My reasonably priced and scintillating Substack ⬇️jspivey.substack.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_My email - joespivey197@gmail.com #books #booktube #sundayspecial
An Election Wrap-up AND a Book Review! Joe Spivey 2024-07-05 | A half and half between the UK’s election results and my reading of Trollope’s ‘Phineas Redux’! No thesauruses were harmed in the making of this video. Exposition is my own! My email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Insta - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #politics #election
BOOK REVIEW - The Memoir of Christopher Hitchens! Joe Spivey 2024-07-03 | Here for an afternoon of booze-induced belly laughs! The memoir of Christopher Hitchens gives us bowdlerised and embellished memories, mawkish name-dropping and a frenetic need for readers to learn of the author’s obvious brilliance. Enjoy! My email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #autobiography #christopherhitchens
Another unnecessary book haul! Joe Spivey 2024-07-01 | I’m back to my booktubing best. I hope everyone affected by their loss of Alice is bearing up ok. My Instagram and email are available down below should any conversations be necessary ⬇️Email - joespivey197@gmail.com Insta - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #booktuber #bookhaul
The Tour de France explained! And why you should watch it! Joe Spivey 2024-06-27 | Some guidance on the world’s toughest sporting event due to roll by from Saturday! The FREEEE piece on my Substack - jspivey.substack.com/p/sports-erratum-why-you-should-watchMy email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy insta - joe_spivey_#cycling #sport #tourdefrance2024 #tdf
BOOK REVIEW - ‘Daniel Deronda’ by George Eliot Joe Spivey 2024-06-25 | How horrid is it to see a talent curdle in a lukewarm pan! Today a take a slight pop at Daniel Deronda and it’s otherwise laudable author! My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Insta - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #classicbooks
A HUGE Q&A special! Joe Spivey 2024-06-23 | Thank you for such startling and fecund questions! I hope I provided good service to you most loyal of customers 😉My contact details, should they be of interest: Instagram - joe_spivey_ Email - joespivey197@gmail.com #books #booktube #qanda #questions
Summer in Sport - A biography and a discussion! Joe Spivey 2024-06-20 | PLEASE LEAVE QUESTIONS FOR SUNDAY’S Q&A DOWN BELOW ⬇️ Plenty to wrap our receptive minds around in this video; the past ubiquity of PED use, the cognitive dissonance inherent in Marco Pantani’s posthumous treatment, and the elephantine Lance Armstrong! My email - joespivey197@gmail.com My Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #summer #sport #cycling
“He wore the mask of acceptability” | Arendt’s treatment of Adolf Eichmann Joe Spivey 2024-06-18 | We’re zooming towards the investigative conclusion of our slow read-along. This time we look at Romania’s anti-Semitic readiness and Eichmann’s effective fooling of many within the courtroom. My Instagram - joe_spivey_ My email - joespivey197@gmail.com #books #booktube #ww2
Recent reads and a chatty catch-up! Joe Spivey 2024-06-16 | Me and my protuberant pustules are back post-migraine! The piece on Martin Amis’ ‘Inside Story’ is linked below ⬇️ substack.com/@joespivey02My email - joespivey197@gmail.comMy Instagram - joe_spivey_ #books #booktube #catchup
The return of ‘Slashing at Hacks’! Joe Spivey 2024-06-13 | Plenty of political coverage from your favourite internet-dwelling bloviate! My Instagram - joe_spivey_ My email - joespivey197@gmail.com #books #booktube #politics
The ‘Read Smart’ Tag! Joe Spivey 2024-06-11 | The tag originated on @ToReadersItMayConcern and @ProseAndPetticoats 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 optimize 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?#books #booktube #tagtuesday
