I skipped your thoughts about Even since it is my group for round two. I have high hopes for it! Totally agree with you on the blurring of fiction and nonfiction is supposedly “nonfiction” books…it’s a hard no from me!
Love seeing your delight over the little progressions of the renovation. I'm going thru the same with a kitchen reno right now, so I expect the beginning of my vlog this next round will be similar 😂 I'm a big fan of Bamford, yet I really would struggle to recommend this books to about anyone. The beginning is so extreme, then it turns into more traditional memoir but still doesn't really deliver on the premise either. Like you say I think poor marketing/expectation setting for the reader going into it! I was very surprised it made it over other celeb memoirs. Mary Beard is a gem, it's good to hear your view as a lover of her work, I'll be interested to see anyone who hadn't read from her before how they take impressions from this one alone. It is so big, yet I was hoping to see it go forward. I had to downgrade a couple of my books last year for sourcing issues too, even if I enjoyed them as books.
Good luck with the kitchen renos! I hope they progress according to schedule. Mine finished last week (!), about six weeks later than what was originally planned. I am a bit disappointed that Mary Beard's book did not make it to the next round, but in a way in way it is not surprising given the group it was in. The three books that made it to the next round were about feminism in one way or another, so I am not surprised that the judges who like books on that theme put them in their top three.
I love Mary Beard too. I have Emperors of Rome and will read for next Historathon Q1 if not sooner. Too bad it didn’t move on. I also really look forward to reading Eve!
The only one I've read is Eve. I found it absolutely fascinating although I didn't particularly like the wrap up. Was did impress me was the range of readers it appealed to.
I enjoy seeing the progress of your renovations. I love the new lights. This group seems like a mixed bag. Eve and Emperor of Rome would have been my top choices. Although, I do love August Wilson's plays so I might get on with the biography. Do you stay in the same group for the next round and read three new books or do you move to another group and have to read six books again?
For the next round, the books are redistributed into different groups, so if I was to judge the second round, I wouldn't have more than one from the previous round. I am not judging the second round. I will hop back in for the third round.
August Wilson's plays are enthralling. I've read/ watched Joe Turner's Come & Gone, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, and Fences. Available on RU-vid: The Piano Lesson Fences Many interviews with August Wilson
You do not like gravy on your mashed potatoes? I thought that is what gravy is for. 😄 I have not read any of these books yet but just listening to you describe them I would have to say that the ones you placed number one and two are also the ones that would interest me. Which is surprising considering how far off base your gravy ideas are.
@@audreyh7892 I read Animal Farm a long time ago. At the time, I thought the sheep were funny (four legs good, two legs baaad), but I was too young to understand the hidden meaning. Later I read an explanation of what each animal represented, and I thought it was clever. But I have not reread it, so I don’t know if reading the book while understanding the subtext makes it preachy or obvious or something like that.
Book tube watchers can judge as well. You have to sign up to be in the judge pool around December for the following year as a judge, then youd get emails to put yourself in for each round you want to judge a couple weeks before it begins.
Like ReadBecca said, you don't need to have a channel. Being a commentator is plenty enough. The call for judges happens in the fall (mid-October or later). You can volunteer for fiction or nonfiction or both. If you volunteer for both, the computer will only assign you to one per round (you will not get twelve books to read). You have to opt in for every round. There are four in total: the first round in February-March, the second in April-May, the third (semi-finals) in June-July and the final round in August-September. It's a lot of fun. If reading six books in two months is not too much of a challenge for you, I highly recommend that you try it.
I DNFed Sure I'll join your cult. It was a blatant cash grab and I listened to the audiobook and she sounded whiny. And barely no cults! For August Wilson, I've watched Fences movie adaptation with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis and thought it was stunning. I definitely want to seek out more of his works. Wifedom sounds like creative nonfiction. I had a couple like that in my fiction group B.
Bamford mentions a couple of times in the book that she is writing it just because she is being paid. It’s disrespectful. Wifedom is definitely creative nonfiction. I don’t mind a good narrative in a nonfiction book, but not to the point that it becomes fiction.
