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NY Times By the Book Tag Questions
1. What book is on your nightstand now?
2. What was the last truly great book that you read?
3. If you could meet any writer - dead or alive - who would it be? And what would you want to know?
4. What books might we be surprised to find on your shelves?
5. How do you organize your personal library?
6. What book have you always meant to read and haven’t gotten around to yet? Anything you feel embarrased never to have read?
7. Disappointing, overrated, just not good: what book did you feel you were supposed to like but didnt? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing?
8. What kinds of stories are you drawn to? Any you stay clear of?
9. If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be?
10. What do you plan to read next?
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@emmyb7613 8 жыл бұрын

The Lowland sounds amazing. Thank you for the recommendation. :) I like your video very much. :)

@lindaharrison3240 8 жыл бұрын

There are so many lovely copies of Moby Dick. I haven't read all of it, but what I did read, I love the way in almost every sentence, there's a reference to the sea.

@danielleparkerson6012 8 жыл бұрын

I felt the same way about Brandon Sanderson! I got about 200 pages into Mistborn and i also felt the writing style skewed younger than I like.

@SomdahSaysSo 8 жыл бұрын

I know we have a million mommy blogs/books that say otherwise but motherhood isn't for every woman. With the rise of children being killed and abused by their mothers this topic should have been had more spotlight.

@yj6118 8 жыл бұрын

Since you like multi-generational stories, have you tried 100 Years of Solitude? A really great read revolving in part around that topic.

@mickeysbooktubeexperiment3029 8 жыл бұрын

+Yaritza Jimenez I actually started it like a year or so ago and had to put it down for work reasons. I loved what I read though and hope to return to it soon.

@mementomoriadam 8 жыл бұрын

I recently bought A Trip To Echo Spring. Looking forward to picking it up soon. This is my favorite tag to see people do so I am glad you got around to it.

@mickeysbooktubeexperiment3029 8 жыл бұрын

+mementomori It's really fascinating. It's so hard to know how many of these writers functioned at all better yet wrote their masterpieces when you read how big of an issue alcohol was for them.

@tresaresa 7 жыл бұрын

Do you remember what the documentary about Suzan Lori Parks was called? I'd love to watch that. I had good luck in college that I had a professor who loved to teach us Parks's plays. I had a really happy time reading her work. But that was a while ago for me. Have you read the multi-part "Father Comes Home from War"? I noticed a while back that that was her most recent work, but I've been putting off getting it. Would you recommend that one? Thanks!

@DanMartinlikesyou 8 жыл бұрын

Lol, I'm with you on Moby Dick. Every. Damn. Year.

@mickeysbooktubeexperiment3029 8 жыл бұрын

+Danmartinlikesyou It's so flippin big and even people who love it admit that there are huge chunks that are hard to get through. But one day we will conquer it. There's an audio book that compiled a variety of different celebrities and public figures reading one chapter from the book. Maybe I'll listen to it even though I'm not a huge huge fan of audio books.

@mickeysbooktubeexperiment3029 8 жыл бұрын

@DanMartinlikesyou 8 жыл бұрын

Ugh... I can't do audio books. I've tried. For now, it's on my TBR for next year, lol. But we'll see... I'm the boss of me, and I reserve the right to change my mind.

@chebbiereadsandknits672 8 жыл бұрын

Nice! If you like multi generational books, you should read, "Homegoing". Not helping the TBR.😀

@mickeysbooktubeexperiment3029 8 жыл бұрын

+CE Reads I have a hold out on Homegoing at this moment. Can't wait to get my hands on it!

@mickeysbooktubeexperiment3029 8 жыл бұрын

+CE Reads I have a hold out on Homegoing at this moment. Can't wait to get my hands on it!

@dorkabrain 8 жыл бұрын

I think you had my favourite answer for question four by you yourself being surprised that book was on your shelf haha It's possible that you don't like Epic Fantasy, but I definitely don't think Sanderson is the prince of that genre booktube makes him out to be. I think his writing is quite terrible at times, and I do like fantasy. But people are probably sick of me shouting from the rooftops my dislike for him and his books XD I was talking a couple of day ago about the taboo nature of mothers who don't connect to their children, or regret having children. Strangely connected to booktube, but Patrick Rothfuss was being interviewed on a podcast I listen to and he was giving parenting advice. And he spoke a couple times about how it's difficult for men who are about to be first time fathers because there aren't any books targeted towards them. And it kind of irritated me that it seemed like he was willfully ignoring the idea that, on the flip side of that is the assumption that it all falls into place for mothers. As if people who can anatomically give birth are just automatically nurturing etc. That's a tangent, but I agree that's it's a fascinating topic to explore in gritty detail.

@mickeysbooktubeexperiment3029 8 жыл бұрын

+dorkabrain There's this really great middle-grade novel called One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia and in it the mother of the protagonists abandons her family after she decides that she just isn't cut out to be a mother and acknowledges that she became this because it was expected of her; she felt like she owed her husband. Several reviewers on Goodreads were angry because they felt Garcia-Williams was too sympathetic towards the mother. They were mad at Williams for not condemning her and portraying her as an actual human being with feelings. It made me so mad. She left her children with the people who she knew were more capable of doing the job. It's not necessarily right but it isn't wrong either. It's more complicated than that and it made me angry to see ADULT readers demanding that a book portray the world in such black and white terms. I applaud Garcia-Williams for being willing to go there in a middle-grade novel. I will listen to you rant about Sanderson all day. I love having another person willing to voice this unpopular opinion. It's needed amongst all the constant praise.

@mickeysbooktubeexperiment3029 8 жыл бұрын

@dorkabrain 8 жыл бұрын

***** I'll have to look into that book because that sounds especially fascinating for a middle grade read. It really boggles my mind just how one-dimensional many peoples' thought processes are. Like you said, those reviewers are looking at it as being so black and white. And, unfortunately, I think that is indicative of the way they view the world as well. People are just so programmed to believe certain things, they don't realise the harm that is created by sticking to those concrete, limited rules. I haven't read the book, but it sounds like the children would possibly be better cared for were the mother not around. If more people understood that, maybe we wouldn't have as many problematic home situations. Not saying that that is 100% true. I think everything has a least some grey area. Sanderson may be on the highest pedestal created by booktube. I really don't get it.