A Fridau video about my favourite reading of 2024 so far. A mixed bag of paperbacks, hardbacks, children's books, picture books, novels and non-fiction.
I'm not a natural reader. I usually listen. Having watched your vlogs, I'm currently reading one of the many books I bought and never touched, its going well. 👍
“Characters are bookmarks in your life.” What a provocative and lovely thought. I sometimes panic at the thought of not loving a book as much if I go back to it years later and that keeps me from rereading them.
I love your thoughts on how books change over time. I absolutely agree--and have been revisiting books I read in my early twenties to see how I've changed since that first reading.
Enjoyed this. Greg from Supposedly Fun recommended your channel. I hadn't thought about the Paul Zindel book in decades -- that book was very popular here in the states in the '70s. Lovely to find your channel.
9:47 - 10:51 - "Books change over time. That's not to say that the words in them change behind your back-you change, and you come at them differently. [...] So, _you_ change, as you return to characters. Characters are kind of...bookmarks, in your life; books are, stopping points, and you can go back to them. And there's a lot to be learned from that, I think. From certain writers [...]." -Paul Magrs, y. 2024 I adore this bit: it's so true!. 💖😊💖
Subscribed - Not because I'm soaking up every drop of information you provide, but because your voice and presentation style are such a breath of fresh air, in amongst all the fast-paced, slickly edited videos I have to wade through(*). Oh, and to say a huge thankyou for giving the world Iris Wildthyme. =:o} *("HAVE to, Paul?" - "Well, yeah, my brain won't let me stop!" =8oo )
15:09 - I think that different people will go into reading for different reasons, sometimes even the same person might go into reading for entirely different reasons at different times, and that's actually okay; I think that's part of the beauty of reading. I think perhaps children and teens are more likely to go into something and imagine themselves in it, while adults are more likely to go into something looking to experience things through someone else's eyes, although there are of course exceptions either way(and sometimes it's really just down to differences in personality types and/or life situations that might or might-not motivate someone)-and personally I think there is room for both types of reading[ &/or viewing fiction] to coexist, I think both things can be equally needed and important or matter just as much in this world in different ways for different reasons and to different people, I don't think it really has to nor should ever be just one thing or the other(And, personally, I think it's when people try and force things to all just be one thing or the other that the most problems typically tend to arise; so, I think its that imbalance of stuff and lack of variety or narrow-minded-ness or what-such[ moreso than simply anybody thinking that fiction should or shouldn't be gone into whilst looking for any particular thing or another by itself] that is the much bigger issue, more than anything else; But maybe that's just me). 🙂💖 That's just some random thoughts that popped into my head and felt like getting out, kind of adjacent to what you were talking about, though; so, please don't misunderstand and think I'm trying to accuse you specifically of something here or anything like that, that wasn't my intent! 😅 🙏😁😊 💖💖
There's the Japanese word kintsugi, where they repair broken things with gold. I don't know if there's a word for custard in Japanese (they often just use the English word, perhaps slightly modified like 'salaryman' becoming 'sarariman' to suit the sounds in Japanese speech), so there might be a word for 'repaired with custard' that some nihonogophone could provide (or invent) to help!
I don't know if I would be any good in a book club. I was going to do a couple of BookTube readalongs in February and just totally froze. I have no idea why. I am taking part in a Georgette Heyer readalong on GoodReads, but it's one book a month and they're all re-reads for me so I already know I'll like them. I think I'll just keep my reading as a private source of quiet enjoyment!
Book clubs are intriguing but my reading resists being organised-if I agree to read something, my promise is sincere but I’ll pick up something else. Then I would feel guilty, feign illness and leave the country to avoid explaining why I never read it. Probably.
I had an idea for a book club. Pass around a deck of playing cards. ~anyone who wants to nominate a book draws a card. The top 3 highest cards nominate a book, 60 seconds to tell the group why the book should be chosen for book club, then people vote. ~the person who nominated the book that is chosen will lead the book group discussion the following month. And so it goes. I recently heard about book clubs that meet every other month, sounds good. I went to a book club once and it turned into an oral book report; not what I was looking for.
16:19 - Too true about nice happy queer/gay romances that don't have always to be tragic or deeply moral or philosophical and such being nice to see exist though. ^-^
