June's Pile of Possibilities: PRIDE, Ulysses, Book Trek, and June on the Range

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I discuss the events in which I will be participating in the month of June and the books I hope to read:
June is PRIDE Month. I will continue my deep read of the poetry and prose of the great Adrienne Rich, a prolific writer of poetry and prose and one of my all-time favorite poets. Additionally, I will read a newish biography of her.
24 in 2024 Banned Book Challenge created by MJ at Reading This Life ‪@M-J‬
James Joyce's ULYSSES Read-along hosted by Greg ‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬ and Allen ‪@bighardbooks770‬
June on the Range hosted by ‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬
‪@saintdonoghue‬
‪@ShawnDStandfast‬
‪@BookTimewithElvis‬
‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬
‪@M-J‬
‪@CriminOllyBlog‬
‪@LiterateTexan‬
‪@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn‬
‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬
BookTrek 2024 hosted by:
Captain Vin‪@revenantreads‬
Bridge Officers:
‪@saintdonoghue‬
‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬
‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬
‪@LiterateTexan‬
‪@ReadbyFred‬
Dune in June Read-along hosted by:
‪@arronjameshook‬
‪@RaynorReadsStuff‬
‪@ShawnDStandfast‬
Books Mentioned:
Holiday, Hilary. The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography. Nan A. Talese, 2020.
Joyce, James. ULYSSES. Vintage Books, 1914/1961.
Joyce, James, ULYSSES. Ed. by Hans Walter Gabler, et al. Vintage Books, 1986.
Maddox, James. Ulysses and the Assault Upon Character. Rutgers University Press, 1978.
Grey, Zane. Riders of the Purple Sage. Barnes & Noble, 1912/2004.
L'Amour, Louis. The Rustlers of West Fork. Bantam. 1951/1979.
Blish, James. Star Trek, Volume 1. Bantam Books, 1967.
Blish, James. Star Trek, Volume 2. Bantam Books, 1968.
Blish, James. Star Trek, Volume 3. Bantam Books, 1969.
McIntyre, Vonda. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. Pocket Books, 1982.
Snodgrass, Melinda. Star Trek: The Tears of the Singers. Pocket Books, 1984.
Carter, Carmen. Star Trek: Dreams of the Raven. Pocket Books, 1987.
Cox, Greg. Star Trek: The Weight of Worlds. Pocket Books, 2013.
Herbert, F. Dune. Ace, 1965.
#booktube #BookTrek #poetry #pridemonth
#Juneontherange
#JamesJoyce #DuneinJune

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@minz_channel 21 день назад

Great, sending my full support❤

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

Thanks! 😊

@ellenmadebookclub 20 дней назад

What a fun pile of possibilities! I would never had guessed you liked Star Trek, that’s so fun to learn about you 😊 Happy reading and enjoy whatever books you get to!

@BookChatWithPat8668 20 дней назад

Just the original series. I never followed any of the later ones. It was just a big thing growing up in the sixties I guess. Thanks!

@TheBookclectic 15 дней назад

Hello Pat! Nice to "meet" you! I'm so pleased to see more BookTubers participating in BookTrek this year. I'll be watching them! ❤🖖🏻

@BookChatWithPat8668 15 дней назад

Hi Brandy. Nice to meet you too! I’m really excited about this first Book Trek adventure. I really only know about the original series and the early movies, but there’s a lot of great stuff there! 😊

@TheBookclectic 15 дней назад

@@BookChatWithPat8668 There is! ❤

@helenclare3250 21 день назад

I'm very busy in June so, out of all these events you've mentioned, I think I'll start with a Pride month read and see how I get on. I hope you enjoy all your events. BookTube is such an amazing place.

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

It really is. Every month has so many wonderful things from which to choose!

@noteworthyfiction 16 дней назад

Lots of fun reading plans!

@BookChatWithPat8668 16 дней назад

Hi Nicole! I’m hoping to have some fun this summer! 😊

@readandre-read 21 день назад

This is a dynamite TBR Pat! I've been mispronouncing Adrienne Rich forever! I know the feeling of being attached to books with my youthful annotations. It would be like throwing out old diaries or photos. Shared brain alert! I was also an original Star Trek nerd as a kid. I used to have those James Blish books; whatever happened to them? I do still have some of the "fotonovels" and I will read one in July to participate!

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

I love sharing a brain with you, Angelia! I always mispronounced Adrienne Rich’s name too-as does most of the world. But then I heard her read, met her, and had her sign one of my books back in my early twenties. It was at that reading that I learned that she pronounces it Ah-drienne and not with a long A. The whole world mispronounces it! The pronunciation is actually addressed in this biography. Her father named her. Who knew?!

@books_and_bocadillos 21 день назад

I'm hoping to read Dune over the summer as my big book of summer 🌞

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

Nice! I really want to read it, too. Just not sure I can do it in June.

@BeyondBooks-wt5il 21 день назад

"New Riders of the Purple Sage" - I remember them fondly. Not participating officially in June on the Range, however I am planning to read a Western in June. You have quite the pile of possibilities there! Good luck!

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

I’m not doing the whole June on the Range either. Just those two novels, I think. I think Ulysses will dominate my reading. Hope you have a June filled with lots of self-care and books that are good for you! 😊

@MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm 21 день назад

I too am hugely tempted by Dune in June. I have a ton of other events that I’m trying to stick with, but I struggle with moderation. 😅🤣 Good luck with all your reads!

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

Everything just sounds so good, doesn’t it? I think I’ve decided, though, that I’m not going to try to read DUNE in June. Not this June anyway….Good luck to you too!😊

@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk 21 день назад

Plenty to keep you busy there!

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

I guess so! I’m always so optimistic at the start of the month! 😂

@ReadbyFred 10 дней назад

That's too bad that your student never returned your book. The _New Riders of the Purple Sage_ sounds like a great name! I think I like ST novels because of my watching of the shows; I'm not sure I'd enjoy them as much if I hadn't of watched the TV series. Good luck with all the reading events Pat - very happy to have you join in on BookTrek this year :) Weight of Worlds is a good book. I've never read Dune either. It will be on my reading list after I complete my read what you own challenge :)

@BookChatWithPat8668 10 дней назад

Thanks for this lovely comment, Fred! You were the first person to welcome me to BookTube by subscribing before I even had a channel! 🥰

@Tristan-L-Space-Books 19 дней назад

I like the idea of Pile of Possibilities over a tbr. Sounds like a great collection of things for June! I might have to join in for the Ulysses read along because I've been thinking about reading it. As far as Westerns go, I'm by no means experienced, but I could suggest looking into Pity the Beast by Robin McLean. She wrote it as a feminist Western and centered the characters that often find themselves relegated to the sidelines. She took some of her creative inspiration from William Faulkner, too. I read it a couple years ago and found it wryly funny and curiously written. She also included small sections of "Mule thoughts" because we never get to hear from the beasts of burden that feature so prominently in these stories!

@BookChatWithPat8668 19 дней назад

Oh that’s a great suggestion, Tristan! Thank you! I was also thinking about maybe looking into Lucky Red by Claudia Craven, a newish book from maybe the last year, also with a very feminist perspective. We’ll see. If you’re interested in joining the Ulysses read-along, check out Greg’s channel at Another Bibliophile Reads. There’s info there for joining the Discord. Thanks again for the Robin McLean recommendation! 😊

@patriciah8579 21 день назад

I had a feeling you were going to mention New Riders of the Purple Sage when you held up the Zane Grey book. 🎶

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

Lol! That was my immediate association as soon as I saw the book. I really loved them when I was a kid! NRPS! 😂🎵

@BookishChas 18 дней назад

Sounds like you’ll have some good possibilities Pat! My dad was a huge fan of Louis Lamour, and my mom loved Zane Grey. I never read either lol.

@BookChatWithPat8668 18 дней назад

Well, they will both be new to me too! We’ll see how it goes.

@RaynorReadsStuff 21 день назад

Great pile of possibilities for next month Pat. These BookTube events are always so enticing aren’t they 😊. There are a few summer-long events I will be enjoying this year including Star Trek, Summer of Sport and Big Books of Summer. I’m really looking forward to Ulysses and Dune, June on the Range and Rocket Summer in July and there’s a Readalong of Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole in July as well. It’s so,so hard not to try to do everything 😊 oh btw, I wasn’t able to watch the Monday Live live but I caught up yesterday and really, really enjoyed the chat between the three of you 😊

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

Hi Debs. They are all so enticing! I'll be doing Rocket Summer too in July. I'm worried that picking up Dune while starting Ulysses again might not be practical for me. We'll see. I know the livestream was not at a good time for all of my British friends, but thanks for tuning in to the video. It was a lot of fun.

@RaynorReadsStuff 21 день назад

@@BookChatWithPat8668 you were marvellous 🤩

@BookChatWithPat8668 19 дней назад

Thank you, my friend!😊

@awebofstories 19 дней назад

It sounds like you have quite a plan for June. Yeah, June is a pretty busy month with reading events. My only suggestions is to combine books as best you can, which may a bit hard with the Star Trek Readathon and June on the Range!

@BookChatWithPat8668 19 дней назад

Great idea, Melinda, about combining books. I was able to do that in March where some of my Irish reading also fit into March Mystery Madness! But, like you say, Star Trek and June on the Range? That’s going to be tough! I think I have found a book that will represent both PRIDE and June on the Range, though. Really, I’m not going crazy anymore over events. I just like to participate where I can. Ulysses is the BIG project, truthfully. Hope you’re doing well. 😊

@Bryndisdaugtherofgunnar 19 дней назад

I did consider reading Ulysses this June, but I've been reading so many big books lately, and I just needed a break, so it will wait a little longer.

@BookChatWithPat8668 19 дней назад

It’s not going anywhere! It will be here when you’re ready! 😊

@purplepumpkin6894 21 день назад

Hi Pat! You've got so much good stuff here and good stuff going on! Thank you for the info about Adrienne Rich's new biography - I've always wanted to learn more about her as well. I own a copy of your newer edition of Ulysses - I was using it in grad school in the late 90's so the "newer" edition has been out for quite a while. Zane Grey was my grandmother's favorite western author - my grandmother lived to be 94 and I remember her talking about how much she loved Zane Grey. I haven't heard his name since, so I appreciate you bringing him up in your video. And that's cool that you're a "Trekkie," at least of the original TV series. - Tammy

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

Hi Tammy! How wonderful that your grandmother loved Zane Grey. I think it’s definitely time that I read at least one of his westerns! I laughed when I read your comment about the Gabler edition not being exactly “new.” I think its copyright is 1986! 😂 It is the standard edition now-and probably has been since its publication. I think my Yeats and Joyce seminar in grad school was 1985! (I think!). I’m old, Tammy! (But very young at heart! 🥰😉) Thanks, as always, for such a lovely comment!

@purplepumpkin6894 21 день назад

Thank you, Pat! I'm going to be 50 in a few short years, so I'm no longer a "spring chicken" either! Both of us though are definitely, without question, young at heart! 🥰

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

@@purplepumpkin6894 Absolutely! 🥰

@stuartgriffin1001 20 дней назад

You are going to have a busy June. I also watched the original Star Trek series when it was first broadcast. I remember i had some of the old Star Trek books with the style cover you showed. Unfortunately, mine are long gone

@BookChatWithPat8668 20 дней назад

I really did like the original series, as a kid and even as a young adult, but I never really kept up with Star Trek in all of its other incarnations. I think I will have fun revisiting some of the original cast of characters. I have decided against trying to read DUNE in June, though. I will have my hands full with Ulysses, I think.

@stuartgriffin1001 19 дней назад

@@BookChatWithPat8668 Dune is a big book. I read it long ago. It is important to not set goals that are too difficult to achieve

@BookChatWithPat8668 19 дней назад

@@stuartgriffin1001 exactly! I can read Dune another time!

@greatbooksbigideas 20 дней назад

I too am very tempted to re-read Ulysees in June. I recently got the Gabler edition and just might give it a go. Much fondness for those original Star Trek James Blish titles. I've collected the whole set, and one of these days, I'll plow through the lot of them. I too have not ventured past the original series. Recently I watched the Dune part 1 film and enjoyed it, and it's about time I get around to Dune. I've got it on my radar, maybe later this year? So many books, so little time!

@BookChatWithPat8668 20 дней назад

Oh Jim, you should join the Ulysses read-along. Do you know Greg and Allen, who are hosting the event? You can find the links in my notes, and you can join the Discord group through them. It would be great to have you join us! That’s great that you have the whole set of the original Star Trek books. I’ve decided to hold off on Dune in June….Maybe another time…

@ShawnDStandfast 21 день назад

Hi Pat, you are more than welcome to join us for Dune. It will be about 200 pages per week as breaking it down in the sections of the book. Do let me know and I can add you to the Voxer group.

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

I will let you know, Shawn. I am very tempted as I know that it will be a great reading experience. I'll decide in the next day or so. Thank you!

@BookChatWithPat8668 20 дней назад

Shawn, thank you again for this invitation. I've decided I'm not going to try to read DUNE this June. I think it will just be too much for me right now. I will get to it eventually, though. Thanks again.

@ShawnDStandfast 20 дней назад

@@BookChatWithPat8668 No worries. I'm sure it will come around again either by me or someone else. You can't keep a good book down.

@BookChatWithPat8668 20 дней назад

@ShawnDStandfast Well, I so enjoyed our discussions of Les Miserables, and I really want to be in another discussion group with you. I’m just afraid I’m not going to be able to take this on right now. 😊

@ShawnDStandfast 20 дней назад

@@BookChatWithPat8668 Thank you Pat. I wasn't sure if I was boring others in the group. I am pleased you enjoyed it. I as well enjoyed the group and your comments. I learned many things that I never thought of until it was stated there.

@anotherbibliophilereads 19 дней назад

I remember that edition of Ulysses. I’m not a Trekkie, but those old paperbacks look cool. I’m sure they’re hard to find nowadays. Try True Grit by Charles Portis for a western.

@BookChatWithPat8668 19 дней назад

I only liked the original Star Trek. I guess I had moved on by the time the newer incarnations came out. I don't even know the characters' names after the original series, but I did like those old episodes. I've heard great things about True Grit. Thanks for the recommendation, Greg. I actually think I remember my father reading that one when it first came out in the 60's. Is that possible?

@BookChatWithPat8668 19 дней назад

Greg, I just downloaded the True Grit audiobook for FREE!! 😊

@anotherbibliophilereads 19 дней назад

@@BookChatWithPat8668 I would definitely rank Donna Tartt’s narration in the top 10 audiobooks I have listened to in the last 25 years.

@BookChatWithPat8668 19 дней назад

@anotherbibliophilereads Wow!! Very high praise! Thanks again for the recommendation! 😊👍🏼

@heathersmusic8833 21 день назад

Hi Pat. That’s an impressive pile of possibilities. I have an off-topic question if that’s alright with you. Is your necklace an Egyptian cartouche? I never got out of my ancient Egyptian phase. It’s beautiful regardless. ❤

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

Hi Heather. Yes, it is a cartouche given to be by my beloved aunt and godmother. It was hers. ❤️

@constancecampbell4610 21 день назад

Your Star Trek book are so cool. Thanks for showing them to us.

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

They are fun! And I only know about the original series!

@constancecampbell4610 21 день назад

@@BookChatWithPat8668 I know nothing about the books, but adored the original series and The Next Generation. TNG’s first few episodes can be awkward but it smooths out to be wonderful.

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

@@constancecampbell4610 that sounds promising. I don’t know why I never explored anything after the original series. I should take a look at The Next Generation! Thanks!

@LibroParadiso-ep4zt 21 день назад

Fortunately you've already read Ulysses, otherwise along with Dune June would be a trying time. I've only read the first Dune book, liked it, but not well enough to go on. I enjoy the films though including Lynch's. The great film maker and comic book writer Alejandro Jodorowsky planned a 9 hour Dune, which was story boarded by the equally great French comic book artist Moebius, and would've included a soundtrack by Pink Floyd and starring Salvador Dali and Orson Welles. Giger designed some of the early sets and costumes which were later used by Ridley Scott for Alien. Unable to make the film Jodorowsky wrote what he imagined Dune would be in graphic novels like The Incal and the remarkable The Metabarons. I read Ulysses one summer between semesters. I was curious about it, having read Joyce's other books (minus Finnegan's Wake). I'd read journals and had annotated edition for reference, none of which helped in understanding the book. It wasn't until years later when I read Anthony Burgess's Re-Joyce and Vladamir Nabokov's lectures on Literature and his chapter on Ulysses that I wished I'd known about those books at the time. What I advise those that ask how to approach Ulysses, I tell them not to bother reading Homer (if they hadn't done so already) because it wouldn't help them at all. Nor to fall into the trap speculating over the meaning inside each chapter. Instead to read it like a narrative poem, even to read parts out loud. And to remember that death plays an important part in the story. Bloom has lost a son, and Stephen is guilt ridden over the death of his mother. He refused to kneel and make a prayer at her deathbed. Dead son and mother, respectively, come into the characters minds throughout the narrative and it's interesting to see what triggers the emotion, the memory. A beautiful book.

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

Thank you for the info about the planned version of DUNE by Jodorowsky. Fascinating stuff. I think that I need to follow my gut. This is probably not the June for me to read Dune. This will be my third reading of Ulysses, but the last one was a long time ago. The last time I read it, it was one of the most powerful reading experiences of my life. I was, as I said, reading it for a Joyce/Yeats seminar in grad school, but I felt like I was living it in a way I'd never felt before. I remember that I actually dreamt about it. Very intense experience. I think that was, in part, because, as you say, it is about death, and at that time of my life, that summer, I was profoundly grieving the deaths of both my father and my brother. Finnegan's Wake is the only work of Joyce that I have not read--and haven't even felt tempted to read it! Joyce aside, how are you doing? I was just thinking about you, and here you are. Hope you are doing well....

@LibroParadiso-ep4zt 21 день назад

@@BookChatWithPat8668 Good morning, Pat. It's interesting about your dreams, their intensity, and the impact the book had on you due to the deaths of your loved ones. Makes perfect sense to me. There is a deep humanity to this book, exemplified in Leopold Bloom himself, a kind man, a Jewish man, whose actions are more Christian than his fellow men and women who are Christians. I thought about him at the funeral for a friend, where Stephen's father is also present. The moment arouses memories of his son, Rudy, but also those of his father, who committed suicide The latter is rudely referenced by someone in there, maybe it was Stephen's father, I don't clearly remember. His inner monologue is evident of his caring for other people, even animals, like that poor hungry dog. He is aware of the anti-antisemitism around him, but it doesn't make him bitter. He is also aware of Molly's infidelity, but doesn't blame her. . A remarkable literary creation. You mentioned that westerns were on the June list. I don't know if you've read Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, but the Judge and the Kid, are the moral antithesis to Bloom and Stephen. The Judge is brilliant, but morally vacant, just like Bloom is his opposite. I haven't made videos because for over a month I've been in the process of selling off half my book collection. For the past few weeks I've been moving to a smaller place which has stairs. Books, as you know are difficult to move. A local bookseller has been buying my books. Difficult, but necessary to do. Once I'm settled in I'll return to making videos.

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt thank you for this detailed response and for filling me in on what’s been going on with you. I actually have not read Cormac McCarthy. I’ve always been a little frightened of him, to be honest. But it’s a big gap in my reading. This is the absolute truth: I was up very early today, and I was reading an old issue of The London Review of Books. I am far behind in reading recent issues. I picked up an issue from January, and I thought of you. And then here you are this morning. I do not envy you having to figure out which books to part with, and moving is an onerous job, no matter what the circumstances are. Good luck with it all!

@GenreBooks23 21 день назад

Snap! We picked the same Zane Grey. Book Trek is an event too far for me this year, but I do like the James Blish that l’ve read.

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

The Star Trek books are really quick. I won't read them all. The James Blish novelizations are really collections of stories based on individual Star Trek episodes. Fun stuff. That's awesome that we picked the same Zane Grey! Have you read any of his work before?

@GenreBooks23 21 день назад

@@BookChatWithPat8668 I read “Fighting Caravans” as I had picked up a copy at a book fair prior to June on the Range last year. Must have been good if I’ve come back for more!

@BookChatWithPat8668 21 день назад

@@GenreBooks23 well, that sounds promising!