HeathereadsJoining in the conversation started by Gareth at @bookssongsandothermagic responding to Steve Donoghue's probe video @saintdonoghue - video links below
0107 Sideline - How Do I Pick My Next Book?Heathereads2024-06-19 | Joining in the conversation started by Gareth at @bookssongsandothermagic responding to Steve Donoghue's probe video @saintdonoghue - video links below
Three Shires Publishing and Mary Matthews threeshirespublishing.com/about-us0134 NonFiction Vlog - Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund BartlettHeathereads2024-10-09 | Vlog 1 of 3, covering the Introduction and Chapters 1-6
Rosamund Bartlett's website rosamundbartlett.com/website/home.html0133 Sideline Bring Back Browsing TagHeathereads2024-10-06 | #Bringbackbrowsing tag Tagged by @tahlia__nerds_out Tag created by @RovingReader
youtube.com/watch?v=TavH955eg8k Elaine Pagels giving one of the Price Lecture in Boston and talking about The Gnostic Gospels in 2015
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!MM027 Middlemarch Meditations: Rosamond VincyHeathereads2024-10-04 | Close reading of Middlemarch, using the 2003 Penguin Classics paperback edition (Rosemary Ashton ed.) ISBN-13: 978-0-141-43954 Chapter 11, pages 96 to 103 (end of chapter)
Goldfarb, Russell M. “ROSAMOND VINCY OF ‘MIDDLEMARCH.’” CLA Journal 30, no. 1 (1986): 83–99. Goldfarb was the professor of English and American Literature at Western Michigan University who passed away in Sept 2023 http://www.jstor.org/stable/443219240132 Fiction Review - Cat Brushing by Jane CampbellHeathereads2024-09-29 | Read What You Own Challenge Book 49 of 53 Winning Title Challenge Book 3 of 18
Coffee Break Video “In Praise of Small Publishers” 21 September 2023 youtu.be/UMuU16JI5q4
Elizabeth Marshall Taylor’s YouTube page @elizabethmarshallthomas81410128 Sideline - How I Do TarotHeathereads2024-09-11 | Shoutout to Meg at @booksoffthebeatenpath hope you enjoy!0127 Sideline As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerHeathereads2024-09-08 | Read What You Own Challenge 45 of 53 Channel mention for Brian at @BookishTexan
Quoting from “Class Conferences at the University of Virginia” which took place in 1957, and are on pages 192-199 of the 2022 Norton Critical Edition (paperback)
“As I Lay Dying” as Ironic Quest by Elizabeth M. Kerr, Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, 1962
youtube.com/watch?v=1M5Dq-l8sfsMM026 Middlemarch Meditations - As Comedy Would ChooseHeathereads2024-09-05 | Close reading of Middlemarch, using the 2003 Penguin Classics paperback edition (Rosemary Ashton ed.) ISBN-13: 978-0-141-43954 Chapter 11, pages 94 to 96
**CALLING ALL BOOKTUBE CAT LOVERS** If you would like to show off a photograph of your cat and get a shoutout for your channel in my next non-fiction review, please send an email to zencat11star@gmail.com. I will reply and confirm that your photo will appear and the publication date of the video. Thanks muchly - Heather0125 Sideline - Man Made Woman by Ciara CreminHeathereads2024-08-28 | Read What You Own Challenge 44 of 53
Interview given in Nov 2021, suggesting that Cremin now dresses and identifies as a trans woman all the time storyo.co.nz/stories/ciara-cremin
Oxford University Department of Continuing Education conted.ox.ac.uk
*CAT PHOTO CALL* - if you would like a picture of your cat to appear in my September non-fiction review, please send a *.jpg file to this address zencat11star@gmail.com0124 Fiction Review - Breakfast At Tiffanys by Truman CapoteHeathereads2024-08-25 | Read What You Own Challenge 43 of 530123 Non Fiction Vlog 3 of 3 1812: Napoleons Fatal March on Moscow by Adam ZamoyskiHeathereads2024-08-21 | Read What You Own Challenge 42 of 53
I was tagged by @willchambers8065 'The Honest Booktuber Tag' was created by @harrietrosie13
I have tagged: @booksoffthebeatenpath @ellenmadebookclub @CamsCampbellReads @marianhreads @AngelasBookcase @polyglotreading @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @TheGrapeJellyLibrary @sarah-roadworthy
Tag Questions
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.0120 NonFiction Vlog 2 of 3 - 1812 Napoleons Fatal March on Moscow by Adam ZamoyskiHeathereads2024-08-10 | Read What You Own Challenge - this book will be counted in the next vlog when it is finished
Quoting from this article on JSTOR:- Furst, Lilian R. “Struggling for Medical Reform in Middlemarch.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 48, no. 3, 1993, pp. 341–61. JSTOR, doi.org/10.2307/2933652. Accessed 31 July 20240118 Non Fiction Review - The God Desire by David BaddielHeathereads2024-07-31 | Read What You Own Challenge 39 of 53
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?
Tagging: Anyone who loves these questions and needs to tell BookTube why0116 Fiction Review - Hotel Du Lac by Anita BrooknerHeathereads2024-07-24 | Read What You Own Challenge 39 of 53
Times Magazine, 1951, about the Silent Generation time.com/archive/6794406/people-the-younger-generation0113 Coffee Break - *ORIGINAL TAG* #WinningTitleTagHeathereads2024-07-13 | #WinningTitleTag 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.
Have You Ever Bought a Book Because it Had ....
A Funny Title? A Shocking Title? A Title that sounded like a line of poetry? A Title Which Made Me ask Question? A Heartwarming or Homely Title? A Title with an Unusual Combination of Words? A Fantasitic or Magical Title? A Title Which is a Contradiction or describes the Impossible?
Tagging: @heathergregg9975 @booksoffthebeatenpath @ellenmadebookclub @benreadsgood @BookishTexan @LiterateTexan @HannahsBooks @DEBateBookz @ShawnaciSchroeder @alanaestelle2076 @BookishRealm @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH @GuiltyFeat @royreadsanything @CamsCampbellReads @marianhreads @WillowTalksBooks @AngelasBookcase @lindysmagpiereads @booksatthebottomofthestair8446 @bookssongsandothermagic @sarah-roadworthy @tahlia__nerds_out @JzyShzy @JosephFrancisBurton @polyglotreading @sueysbookbanter @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @richarddelanet @TheLibraryMouseGina @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 @recentlyseenreading @heabooktubes @NickellesNook @willchambers8065 @EveningReader0112 Non Fiction Review - Wild Mind by Natalie GoldbergHeathereads2024-07-10 | Read What You Own Challenge 36 of 53
Gratitude to @paulmagrs-g8n for reminding me how much I love Wild Mind. Please see the links below for his Summer Reading Book Club and his thoughts on Wild Mind
Other channels mentioned @royreadsanything @OmnivorousReader @booksoffthebeatenpath0111 Coffee Break - My Five Rules of BookTube TagHeathereads2024-07-06 | Many thanks to @TheLibraryMouseGina for inviting me to do this tag. Who Am I Tagging? Anyone who reads this description and thinks, "Hey, I have some personal BookTube rules I want to share." Tell us all about it.MM024 Middlemarch Meditations Proper PreliminariesHeathereads2024-07-03 | Close reading of Middlemarch, using the 2003 Penguin Classics paperback edition (Rosemary Ashton ed.) ISBN-13: 978-0-141-43954 Pages 87 to 91
(Apologies for the occasional sound distortions. They were caused by traffic being diverted down our road, including heavy vehicles which made my laptop stand vibrate!)
And a shoutout to @paulmagrs-g8n for recommending Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg as a summer read.0109 Sideline - The Stack of Shame!Heathereads2024-06-26 | A tag video based on the Stack of Shame categories introduced by @benreadsgood - please find a link below to his video and the list of questions if you would like to do this tag. Open invitation - anyone who needs to clear their reading conscience on video may consider themselves tagged!
1. What book has been on your shelf the longest without being read? 2. Are there any books outside your comfort zone that you’re desperate to read? 3. Are there any series you’d like to finish but haven’t? 4. Are there any books related to your background/heritage/history that you feel like you should have read? 5. Which book does it feel like everyone has read, but you haven’t? 6. Is there an author you’re ashamed not to have read anything by them yet?0108 Non Fiction Review - X+Y: A Mathematicians Manifesto for Rethinking Gender, by Eugenia ChengHeathereads2024-06-22 | Read What You Own Challenge 34 of 53
British Council Literature Site – Ruth Rendell page literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/ruth-rendell0105 NonFiction Review - Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter AckroydHeathereads2024-06-08 | Read What You Own Challenge 32 of 53
Tag Questions: 1. Actions speak louder than words. A book that wasn't or couldn't be better than the film. 2. The grass is always greener on the other side. A rags to riches, or a riches to rags, story. 3. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. A parent-child relationship you loved. 4. You can't judge a book by its cover. A great book that NEEDS a better cover. 5. You can't please everyone. A book you hated/loved that everyone else loves/hates. 6. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. A book you are a better person for having read. 7. Love is blind. A book with a disabled character, or actual "blind love." 8. Ignorance is bliss. A book you know is bad but don't want to admit it, or a book you don't want to read in case it's bad. 9. There is no time like the present. Your favourite contemporary book. 10. Better safe than sorry. A book you don't want to read in case it's bad, or vice versa.
Tagging these people @umapraharshitha @normalnotincluded @bigstrongbook @BeyondBooks-wt5il @ellenmadebookclub @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm0103 Fiction Review - Another Country by James BaldwinHeathereads2024-06-01 | Read What You Own Challenge 31 of 53
Syrus Lowe as James Baldwin in James Graham’s play Best of Enemies youtube.com/watch?v=kPr1TPdNfwY0102 - Sideline: Parable Lit (Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Who Moved My Cheese?)Heathereads2024-05-29 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1971) Richard Bach, ISBN 978-0709083696 Who Moved My Cheese? (1998) Dr. Spencer Johnson, ISBN 978-00918169710101 Non Fiction Review The Bird Way by Jennifer AckermanHeathereads2024-05-25 | Read What You Own Challenge 29 of 53
Britta's review's of other Jennifer Ackerman titles: What An Owl Knows youtube.com/watch?v=Yx8zXnYJ_Hs&t=286s The Genius of Birds youtube.com/watch?v=IRfoSzMREy0&t=390sMM022 - Middlemarch Meditation: The Unskinned BearHeathereads2024-05-22 | Close reading of Middlemarch, using the 2003 Penguin Classics paperback edition (Rosemary Ashton ed.) ISBN-13: 978-0-141-43954 Chapter 10 - The Epigraph
youtu.be/Kj5brBNSFwg?si=-L0SiUi-l8dsg-L4 Mount Edgecumbe House in Cornwall0100 - Coffee Break: Alice Munro Saves Booktube!Heathereads2024-05-18 | **CHECK THIS OUT** - Found this perceptive video about the downside of the Booktube game after I posted my video. A shout out to @ArielReads_ for this content youtube.com/watch?v=TitWHkZg9Og
Background photograph is Victoria, B.C., Canada, the harbour off Wharf Street, about an eight minute walk from the famous Munro Bookshop that was once run by Alice Munro and her first husband099 - Fiction Review: Momento Mori by Muriel SparkHeathereads2024-05-15 | Read What You Own Challenge Book 28 of 53
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gillespie%27s_High_School James Gillespie’s High School for Girls – famous alumni098 NonFiction Vlog - Catherine the Great, Part 3Heathereads2024-05-11 | Read What You Own Challenge Book 27 of 53 The last in a three part vlog talking about Virginia Rounding's biography of Catherine the Great097 Fiction Review Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth StroutHeathereads2024-05-08 | Read What You Own Challenge Book 26 of 53
University of Heidelberg, history of https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/university/history096 - Sideline: RWYO, The Half-Time ShowHeathereads2024-05-01 | Hoorah! I have completed six months of my year long Read What You Own Challenge. Here's how it went.
Collaborative close reading of "White Rabbits" by Leonora Carrington with David at @polyglotreading
I would like to invite these creators to cover this tag if they wish @AngelasBookcase @CodedBookworm @DolapoAdedokun @DEBateBookz @jakobmarshall22 @RecoveringBookSnob