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Francois' Book Club
Registrace 12. 02. 2024
Hi all,
I love reading and hope you do too! I am here to share some of the great books I read. Hopefully, I can inspire others to pick up more books along the way.
Each month, one book in particular will be the Book of the Month. In the ensuing month, I will do one video on that book in particular. You'll be able to see that book noted in the video descriptions leading up to its review. The goal is to get the audience to participate in selecting the book for the Book of the Month.
I love reading and hope you do too! I am here to share some of the great books I read. Hopefully, I can inspire others to pick up more books along the way.
Each month, one book in particular will be the Book of the Month. In the ensuing month, I will do one video on that book in particular. You'll be able to see that book noted in the video descriptions leading up to its review. The goal is to get the audience to participate in selecting the book for the Book of the Month.
Book Hacking | Four Tips to Read More Books
Ok, so you’ve become a reader. There are so many great books out there!! Inevitably, your bookshelf starts to fill and then overflow with unread books. How do you actually start consuming more books? This video provides some of my best tips to accomplish that.
Do you have any other tips? Let us know in the comments!
Do you have any other tips? Let us know in the comments!
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The Club | The Drama of the Premier League, Itself | Book Review
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Our Book of the Month for July was The Club by Jonathan Clegg and Joshua Robinson (2018). The Premier League is filled with some of the best drama soccer has to offer. But the creation and evolution of the League has just as much, if not more drama than any game can ever capture. BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell
Every Book I Read in July! | Monthly Book Log
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I had a really interesting and fun month of reading in July! By the looks of it, even more excitement is coming in August! BOOK OF THE MONTH (August) - Who Goes There? By John W. Campbell (thank you Joseph for the rec!!) Here is the list for July 2024: The Art Thief - Michael Finkel (2023) Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (2020) Knife of Dreams - Robert Jordan (2005) The Club - Jonathan ...
Book Hacking | Secrets to Becoming a Reader | What They Don't Teach You
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Being a reader is HARD! In a world of constant engagement and stimulus, it's a huge time commitment and requires a lot of brain power. But, if you can manage it, reading is massively beneficial to so many aspects of life! This video highlights tips and approaches that I don't think are discussed enough in the journey to becoming a reader. I hope you enjoy!
Wuthering Heights | A Tale of Love & Revenge | Book Review
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Our Book of the Month for June was Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847). I was so pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed this!!! This book is fascinating from a character development and narrative style standpoint! I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did! BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR JULY: The Club by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
Every Book I Read in June! | Monthly Book Log
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I had some really excellent reads in June! They were and informative, everything reading is supposed to be! BOOK OF THE MONTH (July) - The Club by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg Here is the list for June 2024: The Algebra of Wealth - Scott Galloway (2024) Soulsmith - Will Wight (2017) Letting Go of Imposter Syndrome - Serena Choo (2024) Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (1847) Let me know yo...
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Magical Realism at its Finest | BOTM
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Published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a staple of Latin American and World Literature. A prime example of magical realism, the novel is a fun, complex, and engaging read! It was unlike anything I've ever read before! I hope you had fun with this one!!
Every Book I Read in May | Monthly Book Log
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BOOK OF THE MONTH (June) - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Here are all the books I read in May 2024. Some great! Some just ok! But you've gotta read them to find out! Empire of the Summer Moon - S. C. Gwynne (2010) Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan (2003) The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (1915) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967) Let me know your recommendations...
When Breath Becomes Air | What is Your Meaning of Life? | BOTM
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Paul Kalanithi was a remarkable person who graced us with a remarkable memoir. Paul's stripped down contemplation of death and how that allowed him to find meaning in life is both profound and relatable. I hope you all were able to find as much inspiration as I did from this book to reflect on the things that matter to you and learn how to appreciate them more fully. Let me know your thoughts i...
Every Book I Read in April | Monthly Book Log
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BOOK OF THE MONTH (May): One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Here are all the books I read last month: Death’s End - Cixin Liu (2010) Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman (2011) Masters of Comman - Barry Strauss (2012) When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi (2016) What did you think of these books? Any ideas for the next Book of the Month? Let me know in the comments be...
Never Let Me Go | Do We All Have Souls? | BOTM
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Here is our first ever Book of the Month Review!!! It's Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. The Noble Prize winning author crafts a beautiful story about what it means to have a soul. What did you think about the book? Let us know in the comments below!
Every Book I Read in March | Monthly Book Log
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BOOK OF THE MONTH: When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalinithi Here are all the books I read last month: The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu (2008) Good Economics for Bad Times - Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2019) Seveneves - Neal Stephenson (2015) Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) What did you think of these books? Any ideas for the next Book of the Month? Let me know in the comments below!
Books That Made Me a Reader
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We all become readers in our own way. This is my journey! The books described above are the five that entered my life at the right time to teach and remind me why reading is so much fun!
My TOP FIVE Reasons Why You Should READ MORE!
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There are so many reasons why I love to read. Here are five of my favorite reasons!! Book of the Month: Never Let Me Go - Kazoo Ishiguro
Every Book I Read in February!
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BOOK OF THE MONTH: Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Here are all the books I read last month: The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (2003) Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin (1952) Winter’s Heart - Robert Jordan (2000) Atomic Habits - James Clear (2018) What did you think of these books?
SHOGUN! - Book Review and TV Show Predictions!!
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SHOGUN! - Book Review and TV Show Predictions!!
Amor Towles | Reviewing All Three Books
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Amor Towles | Reviewing All Three Books
I love to read. I have been a reader since a small child. My mom bought books for me as well as magazines and the newspaper. I am now 72 and still love to read, often reading up to 5 books simultaneously. I now often read books on a Kindle. My eyes tire more easily now so I am enjoying Audible. I sometimes read my favorite books more than once.
I love hearing about what reading means to people. That provides great perspective of them impact giving the gift of reading can have. Thank you for sharing that with us!
Hey man I just saw this and it’s great I was so excited when you said my name thank you for taking my suggestion keep up the great work man your doing good
Thank you, Joseph! I am very excited to tell the channel all about it!
Hey I like some books and I’m not a huge book reader and your videos seem very nice and your voice is very appealing and your tone is intriguing if you could do a book called the thing from another world the movies are my favourite and never got around to reading it because like I said I’m not really a reader and I think this may help me understand some of the changes and differences from a movie I dearly love
Keep doing what you love and I think your doing great thank you for this treat of a video even though like I said I’m not a big reader and this book doesn’t strike a big appeal to me I still find myself watching and listening to you much love a new fan and subscriber
Joseph, first off, thank you so much for your nice message. It truly means a lot. I think I have a lot of good content in the pipeline that you'll enjoy! I hope to deliver! Also, thank you so much for recommending a book! I am eager to read it!! It will be our book of the month for August and discussed in early September. I just want to make sure I have the right one. It looks like the book is "Who Goes There?" by John W Campbell, which inspired The Thing from Another World (1951) and The Thing (1982). Let me know if that is incorrect.
@@FrancoisBookClub that’s it!! it looks really cool and I’m really excited to see it in August and I hope you enjoy it much love
Great breakdown on the book thank you
Thank you so much! Paul did the hard part, I just talked about it!!
Just found your channel I really enjoyed how you talk about the books and the list of books in the description. A lot of channels forced me to listen just to get the list of book and that’s not very enjoyable you giving me the list as I’m listening to you is perfect 👍. Subscribe
I really appreciate you saying that! My goal here is to make reading, books, and storytelling more accessible. I am glad to hear the lists help accomplish that!
Yo, I’ve talked about thinking fast and slow on my channel!
It’s a great book and applicable to so many fields!!!
Running 10 mile races and reading multiple books a month, not sure how you do it. Like that you shared criticism about a book…most people on here don’t provide their honest thoughts on books.
I stay busy lol! I think it’s just as important to be critical of books as it is to praise them. The criticism is never intended to be from a mean place. It’s really tough to write a book (that’s why I just talk about them). But if a little criticism helps folks find books that suit them rather than invest the time and effort into something they don’t like, I’ve done my job.
I really liked the first 2/3s of seveneves but the last section lost me entirely
Hi, I appreciate the feedback! That might be because the book really lost me a lot of the time lol, but I will definitely try to be more understandable in similar circumstances going forward. I hope you stick around and keep the good feedback coming!
@@FrancoisBookClub sorry I meant last section of the book, not sure if I've accidentally implied your video. The video was cracking
Oh gotcha! I agree completely. Part 3 all went over my head 😂😂😂
@@FrancoisBookClub my partner has read another Stephenson as well and said the last third was similarly weird. I wonder if it's a trait of his writing style
It must be. The only other Stephenson I read was Snow Crash. It has a more cohesive story than Seveneves, but the end is still hard to understand. Sounds like it's a trend.
how do you read this many books a month?
More to come in a future video, but the main thing is enjoying it! Find books, authors, and genres that you like and going from there. Every book is an experiment!
Welcome to CZcams
Thank you, Sharon! Excited to be here!
"The Devil In The White City" is one of my favorites. I gave a copy of it to my MIL.
So glad to hear you enjoyed it as much as I did!! Have you read anything else by Erik Larson? I read "In the Garden of Beasts" a long time ago and have "The Splendid and the Vile" on my bookshelf to read soon.
1100 pages...I haven't read that many pages in my life, but will have to check it out. The TV show looks great!
It sounds like a lot, but they fly by! It’s such a fun read!