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Thank you. We appreciate you dropping in and giving us encouragement. My aunt and uncle used to design and make very unique dolls. Reminds me of what you have as your profile pic.

Hi James. It is definitely a book to push through. The story is an important one and is very thought provoking. Let me know what you think of the ending when you get to it. =)

Thank you and thank you. We never run out of things to talk about. LOL Sorry to hear it's wet and windy. I'd like to send you some of our heat, but I've hear air conditioning is a rare commodity in England.

Hello! Thank you for your support and so happy to hear from another fellow reader of Ray Bradbury. 🤗

LOL 🤣 I really like your pronunciation of French words as "some French word." That's great.

Great responses. You should record it and put a video on your channel. 😁 OH! I think I've read a book titled The Paris Apartment, but I don't know the author. And I forgot to mention Sarah's Key. Is A Dance with Dragons part of the Game of Thrones series? I remember someone in a cafe suggesting one of the books. I never did read it. It's not a genre I was interested in reading. yes, the Lord of the Rings is a children's series and why didn't you read it as a kid? LOL I remember my dad telling me he loved it. He also loved the Odyssey and there was one more. the tagging is my least favorite part of tags. It gets to the point the same people are tagged over and over again. And booktube has cliques. I'm an outlier and surprised I've been tagged, three times this month. LOL What an anomaly.

My pleasure. I hope you enjoy finding books for the prompts and I look forward to watching your video when you get to it. 🤗

@@BookZealots Thanks I'm prepping for the tag today!

Prometheus has one more large bookcase and books on smaller shelves around the house, but he needs to clean his room and we need to switch out his old bookcase for the larger one so he can get organized. The last bookcase has mostly textbooks and I hadn't planned on recording it. That's funny and yet also frustrating when you can't find a book, but how wonderful your grandson probably has it. LOL I've never watched the Nuremberg trials. How did you do that? Have you read Doctor's from Hell by Vivien Spitz? Prometheus has a book titled Blitz. I want to get to it this year. Part of the reason all of the people surrounding Hitler were crazy, were because they were all on drugs. Yes, though, I agree with you. They were mental. Psychologically mental, without empathy, compassion, etc. Very disturbing.

@@BookZealots I watched a lot of documentaries and film footage o. RU-vid. Also a movie with Alec Baldwin as the prosecutor and Brian cox ,who I absolutely love ,who played gorking the number 2 guy second only to hitler. I watched it on you tube also. I am really bookshelves too. I have so so many books. Hopefully it will help me when I’m trying to find a book🤣🤪

I have an unabridged edition. I was trying to buy another translation because I heard that the best translation was by a Christine Donougher. But the guy at the B&N information desk couldn't tell me who the translator was. LOL I only read to page 16. LOL Thank you again for tagging us. It was such a lovely surprise.

@@BookZealots it’s so funny that he thought that there was no translator. I guess he must not have ever read the book and didn’t realize that it was originally written in French? My copy isn’t near me, but I think that my translator is Charles Somebody… God Bless…

I agree. It should be in high school history or civics. Here in KY we have homeschool "requirements" and I made sure Prometheus surpassed them, only to find out that KY is failing to teach the basics. I'm so grateful we were able to homeschool. Does your state have an exit exam or a senior year civics?

@@BookZealots we have zero requirements or testing in Utah

@@CandlewickLibrary Texas is like that and we had considered moving there. It never happened though.

@@BookZealots we are really considering moving out of Utah, but that’s one of the things that makes it hard to think about doing it. The crazy thing is that it seems like there is more homeschool community in the states that are harder though.

@@CandlewickLibrary We had a great homeschool community in Lexington, KY I think we were part of three or four groups, but only one in Cali. I'm sure it had to do with where we were living at the time. What I've found is that the groups stay under the radar until you know where to look. I wouldn't discount a state you're considering because you haven't been able to locate homeschool communities. I have to share, when we were moving from KY back to Cali, I was texting with one of my childhood friends. She was working on getting her degree in education to be a teacher. She kept telling me it was illegal to homeschool in cali. 🤣 It obviously wasn't and isn't, but she was so adament. She never did get a teaching position.

LOL Yes! I almost dnf'd (it would have been a soft dnf, but still), Our Mutual Friend and it did end up being a five star read and my favorite book of the year. That was 2021. There's a part in it that made me so mad at the author. I laughed, I cried. I was in suspense. The book has it all. There's a part that reminds me of Pride & Prejudice. That was a part I laughed out loud. I love the way Dickens wrote, because everything is so descriptive and he pulled me into the story, but it's such a slow build up. It was me not the story. I has to slow myself down. Which translation are you trying to get your hands on? Do I have a good one? I know it really matters. I have the black Penguin edition. . . I think. LOL 2025 is perfect. I want to make it a priority to read some of the "harder" books that everyone keeps talking about. I want to do a video about it because what's hard for some isn't hard for others, vice versa and it's an interesting topic, but everyone's list contain the same books and most of the books I have zero interest in reading. Forcing oneself to read disgusting material is not a good challenge, imo. Prometheus is helping me think up ideas for American reading too instead of Victober. That time period has a lot of American authors that people are missing out on and I just found out, (while reading and researching a Dicken's book), Victoria was a drug addict. 😲 no one ever talks about that. I was shocked. But Jane Austen July, focuses on English/Scottish authors. Victober, same thing. What do we have? Anyway, back to Karamazov, if you can, let me know which edition/translation you get so I can also get my hands on it and we'll plan for 2025. Anytime you choose.

Okay I thought it was me because I remember talking about it to someone- and I couldn’t remember if it was you. 😅 well if you guys want to do a read along in fall I’d love to take part too!

@@BookZealots I want to read the MacAndrew translation by Bantam Classics. I really enjoyed a couple videos you and Prometheus did that involved tea and Austen. Do you remember that? Maybe The Brothers Karamazov readalong could involve chatting about the book over tea and pastries. Virtually, of course. I think we do need some reading event that focuses on American authors. I hope you and Prometheus can come up with something fun!

@@CandlewickLibrary Yes, please! Whenever works best for you and Erion. I don’t know how long the book is, but maybe we can break down the reading into a certain number of pages per day or per week and stretch our reading across a couple (a few?) months with, possibly, weekly chats??

@@CandlewickLibrary Hi Cheryl, Are you referring to Bros. Karamazov? Angie and I are looking at 2025. Is there another book you'd like to buddyread?