Thanks, Brian!🌷It’s good to have a Saturday Hodgepodge again, full of interesting bookish and non-bookish news. On the topic of gender roles in society, I’m currently reading The Home Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, republished by Persephone Books. It is an excellent read on how, initially due to dire circumstances, a woman finds fulfillment in working outside the home and her husband in finding his way around the housework and bringing up the children. It’s set in a small town in the US and was found quite progressive when it came out (I believe in 1924). It’s such a well told tale that, even though I’m actually listening to the audiobook, I have ordered the paper copy as well.
That sounds really interesting. I admire the concept behind Persephone Books, but I’ve only read one of their titles. The Homemaker might be my second. Thanks for telling me about it.
My goodness this was a great hodgepodge! Thank you for doing this. And thank you for your book reviews always, as well as for sharing your takes on so many different things. Just thank you, always.
Hi Chris. I love that movie, but the only parts of the movie that really come from the book are the fishing scenes with Mr. Johnson. Faulkner and the other screenwriters kept the Harry Morgan character, made him less angry and bloodthirsty, and rewrote almost everything else. You are right that it is cool to have a movie come from two Nobel Laureates.
I woke up on Saturday morning and was so glad to see Hodgepodge. I like that you're a Hemingway completist even if all the novels aren't great. I'm late to commenting but I hope you're having a good reading week.
I've heard To Have and Have Not is bad, so I'll probably never get to it. So much the better; please give a full review! Pan the hell out of it! You read it so we don't have to.
The hodgpodge is back, yay. I like the idea of making videos because you want to make them for fun. There is so much going on in my life just now that takes up my energy (work changes mostly) and leave so little for Booktube. I was just thinking, before I started watching your video, if I should just try going back to a weekly catch up like Friday Reads again. Just to get beack in the swing of filming regular again and talking about the books I read outside of a wrap up. Hearing your thoughts there is motivating.
Thank you Wiebke. I don’t know how people with regular jobs find time to BookTube. Even when I was teaching the job provided regular hours, schedules, and holidays that made it easier for me.
Great thoughts on burnout. I have been ridiculously busy this year (in good ways), but BookTube should be more fun than work! To Have and Have Not is definitely Bad Hemingway. I’m trying to decide whether or not to make a video identifying where it works and where it does not work. 💯 on Butker.
So glad to see the hodgepodge return! I don't get how these conservative types can be so anti DEI, when they've spent the last 10 years telling us all the privilege doesn't exist. Loved your biblical analysis of the situation.
Return of the hodgepodge! Love it. Was unaware of that commencement speech. Don’t know whether to thank you for bringing it to my attention or not. 😂😂 How is that apprpriopriate for a speech to college graduates? Ugh!
Yay for a hodgepodge! I don't think I could purposely read a bad novel unless it was an over-the-top trashy book for fun. Maybe. Like other commenters, I found the amount of support Butker is receiving very chilling. At first I just thought "what an asshat!" and then I read the comments and that was so alarming and depressing.
Hard by the Great Forest sounds interesting. My only exposure to Georgia has been through a Stalin bio and The Eighth Life. Thanks for pointing me to Jim's channel to find more. I live with a diehard Swiftie and we often get into discussions of larger issues by way of Taylor. She's an entertainer, but people seem to credit her or demand from her so much more. I find it interesting how people thing she should/should not endorse political candidates or speak out/stay silent on Palestine. No matter what she does, she is criticized. By now she must have the skin of a rhinoceros.
It is a good book. A pretty good combo of a mystery and family saga with lots of Georgian cultural/historical detail. I think Swift is just in that position of having had so much success that she is going to be damned by a large segment of the population no matter what.
I'm glad you enjoyed Hard by a Great Forest. I haven't read it yet, it is on my TBR, I have been bogged down reading "A Man Was going down the Road" by Otar Chiladze, which I saw that Ros of Scallydandling about the Books, was happy to have read but glad to have finished because the plot does meander. I am also reading Flannery O'Connor from Georgia, USA, a great writer but it is difficult to read so many N-words.
Hard by a Great Forest was really good and it sounds like it is more propulsive than A Man Was Going Down A Road. O’Connor’s work is full of racist characters as was the world in which she lived, but seeing the n word in print is very distracting and unsettling . I was reminded of that in reading Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not.
If I recall correctly, the screenwriter for the adaptation of To Have and Have Not needed to do a lot of rewriting to make the book work as a film. And now it's practically known only as a film simply because it's where Bogie met Bacall.
@@BookishTexan oh yes. I've seen about 85%-90% of Bogie's filmography. Key Largo was incredible. But I do love The Big Sleep as my favorite Bogie-Bacall outing. It's so weird.
You used the art of one of my favorite albums in your thumbnail! Great thoughts on your reading and all other topics. I've heard the same thing and agree about that Taylor Swift album title. Is there a good way to contact you outside of comments? I'd love to have you as a future guest on my "Why Read?" discussion series sometime if you're interested.
Love this Saturday Hodgepodge, Brian. I finally had to stop reading all of the Butker garbage. I went down the rabbit hole of reading comments in response to his neanderthal speech in The NY Times, and it was horrifying to me to read the comments from people defending him and agreeing with his comments. Handmaid's Tale, anyone? Horrifying and sickening....
I don’t know if there are more people who agree with Butker’s world view or if they just feel more comfortable expressing their regressive views now. Katy Britts plan for a national pregnancy monitoring data base is the most terrifying thing I’ve heard of for a long time.
@@BookishTexan Back when Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey were overturned in one activist judiciary sweep, I was commenting on another site about the risks of pregnancy apps. One of the Anti-Christ "Christians" was offended that I would suggest that, because no district attorney would ever do this. I would go back and ask about this now, but I have decided that arguing with people who are dishonest "in the name of Jesus" is a waste of time. .
I’m glad to see the hodgepodge. Also pleased to have the Christian religion refresher. I’m very removed from the news, maybe I was hoping for the Alito flag (though I skipped your Trump talk). What I dislike about the Taylor Swift title is that it reinforces a stupid stereotype. If poetry has any function it is to _remove_ people from torture. I’m reminded of a convincing article I read long ago that I’ve never been able to retrace, the premise of which being that the early death of Dylan Thomas was caused by bad medical treatment he got in the US, not because of his dissolute lifestyle. Just a reminder that people having access to food, shelter and healthcare (not to mention a little spending money) are basic issues that need to be addressed before almost anything else. So there’s my rant for the day, now let me get back to _Disgrace._
Removing people from suffering is often done by getting readers/listeners/viewers to put themselves in the place of the tortured. We tend not to change things when we can comfortably ignore the suffering of others. .
My video about Trump’s Trials does touch on Alito (though in the video I said Scalia because I don’t script things). I think it is exactly that stereotype that Swift is mocking. It certainly seems that her lyrics and music remove a lot of young people from the tortures of youth.
@@BookishTexan I only know the Swift album at second hand - and I have the sense that the mocking aspect may have been lost or de-emphasized in what I’ve heard.
Great to see Saturday Hodgepot back, it has been missed, hope we see more. Usual interesting content.
Thank you Michael
Loved the connection with DEI and Paul. 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Doris
Three Cheers for Hodgepodge! Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah!
And…. Just started Hard by Great Forest .. so far so good.
Thanks. I hope you like Hard by a Great Forest. I thought it was really interesting.
Great point about DEI having been embraced in the history of Christianity.
I do love the hodgepodge!
Thank you Amy.
Thanks, Brian!🌷It’s good to have a Saturday Hodgepodge again, full of interesting bookish and non-bookish news. On the topic of gender roles in society, I’m currently reading The Home Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, republished by Persephone Books. It is an excellent read on how, initially due to dire circumstances, a woman finds fulfillment in working outside the home and her husband in finding his way around the housework and bringing up the children. It’s set in a small town in the US and was found quite progressive when it came out (I believe in 1924). It’s such a well told tale that, even though I’m actually listening to the audiobook, I have ordered the paper copy as well.
That sounds really interesting. I admire the concept behind Persephone Books, but I’ve only read one of their titles. The Homemaker might be my second. Thanks for telling me about it.
Hodgepodge 🙌
My goodness this was a great hodgepodge! Thank you for doing this. And thank you for your book reviews always, as well as for sharing your takes on so many different things. Just thank you, always.
Thank you Nancy.
Always love you're videos Brian ☺️ still rewatching the “why is everything terrible” one because it makes me feel better
Thanks Rosika
Hi Chris here. But To Have and Have Not made a really great film though! And Faulkner worked on it! Two Nobel Prizewinners.
Hi Chris. I love that movie, but the only parts of the movie that really come from the book are the fishing scenes with Mr. Johnson. Faulkner and the other screenwriters kept the Harry Morgan character, made him less angry and bloodthirsty, and rewrote almost everything else. You are right that it is cool to have a movie come from two Nobel Laureates.
I woke up on Saturday morning and was so glad to see Hodgepodge. I like that you're a Hemingway completist even if all the novels aren't great. I'm late to commenting but I hope you're having a good reading week.
Thanks Sonia. I am having a slow reading week enjoying my time with Tommy Orange’s Wandering Stars.
Ah, I've missed the hodgepodge! That whole Butker situation is bone-chilling. Putting Hard by a Great Forest on the TBR. Have a great weekend, Brian!
Thank you Priscilla.
I've heard To Have and Have Not is bad, so I'll probably never get to it. So much the better; please give a full review! Pan the hell out of it! You read it so we don't have to.
I will do exactly that! Thanks.
The hodgpodge is back, yay. I like the idea of making videos because you want to make them for fun. There is so much going on in my life just now that takes up my energy (work changes mostly) and leave so little for Booktube. I was just thinking, before I started watching your video, if I should just try going back to a weekly catch up like Friday Reads again. Just to get beack in the swing of filming regular again and talking about the books I read outside of a wrap up. Hearing your thoughts there is motivating.
Thank you Wiebke. I don’t know how people with regular jobs find time to BookTube. Even when I was teaching the job provided regular hours, schedules, and holidays that made it easier for me.
Great thoughts on burnout. I have been ridiculously busy this year (in good ways), but BookTube should be more fun than work!
To Have and Have Not is definitely Bad Hemingway. I’m trying to decide whether or not to make a video identifying where it works and where it does not work.
💯 on Butker.
Would love to see a video from you about the Hemingway, I’m going to film mine tomorrow and post Tuesday.
So glad to see the hodgepodge return!
I don't get how these conservative types can be so anti DEI, when they've spent the last 10 years telling us all the privilege doesn't exist. Loved your biblical analysis of the situation.
Great point about attacking DEI while denying privilege.
Return of the hodgepodge! Love it. Was unaware of that commencement speech. Don’t know whether to thank you for bringing it to my attention or not. 😂😂 How is that apprpriopriate for a speech to college graduates? Ugh!
I’m sorry for bringing Butker to your attention.🤓
Yay for a hodgepodge! I don't think I could purposely read a bad novel unless it was an over-the-top trashy book for fun. Maybe. Like other commenters, I found the amount of support Butker is receiving very chilling. At first I just thought "what an asshat!" and then I read the comments and that was so alarming and depressing.
There are a lot of asshats apparently. Bad Hemingway novels are kind of like trashy reading.🤓
Hard by the Great Forest sounds interesting. My only exposure to Georgia has been through a Stalin bio and The Eighth Life. Thanks for pointing me to Jim's channel to find more. I live with a diehard Swiftie and we often get into discussions of larger issues by way of Taylor. She's an entertainer, but people seem to credit her or demand from her so much more. I find it interesting how people thing she should/should not endorse political candidates or speak out/stay silent on Palestine. No matter what she does, she is criticized. By now she must have the skin of a rhinoceros.
It is a good book. A pretty good combo of a mystery and family saga with lots of Georgian cultural/historical detail. I think Swift is just in that position of having had so much success that she is going to be damned by a large segment of the population no matter what.
I'm glad you enjoyed Hard by a Great Forest. I haven't read it yet, it is on my TBR, I have been bogged down reading "A Man Was going down the Road" by Otar Chiladze, which I saw that Ros of Scallydandling about the Books, was happy to have read but glad to have finished because the plot does meander. I am also reading Flannery O'Connor from Georgia, USA, a great writer but it is difficult to read so many N-words.
Hard by a Great Forest was really good and it sounds like it is more propulsive than A Man Was Going Down A Road. O’Connor’s work is full of racist characters as was the world in which she lived, but seeing the n word in print is very distracting and unsettling . I was reminded of that in reading Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not.
Chubby Checker's (of "The Twist' fame) real name is Ernest Evans. My favourite Ernest after Ernest Shackleton.
I’d have add Tennessee Ernie Ford to the list in honor of my youthful love of the show Hee Haw.
@@BookishTexan That cultural reference lies outside of my extensive files I'm afraid Brian
@@MarcNash I can’t believe you didn’t watch Hee Haw in England in the 70s!
@@BookishTexan I have no idea if we even showed it here
@@MarcNash It would surprise me if they had. And it would be embarrassing too.
If I recall correctly, the screenwriter for the adaptation of To Have and Have Not needed to do a lot of rewriting to make the book work as a film. And now it's practically known only as a film simply because it's where Bogie met Bacall.
The film beyond its main character and the early fishing scene bares little resemblance to the book. The movie is much better than the novel.
@@BookishTexan I haven't read the book (nor am I likely to) but I agree with you! 🤣
I adore the movie. Bogie is one of my favorite actors...
@@pamelatarajcak5634 Good call on the book. I love most of the movie too. Have you seen Key Largo?
@@BookishTexan oh yes. I've seen about 85%-90% of Bogie's filmography. Key Largo was incredible. But I do love The Big Sleep as my favorite Bogie-Bacall outing. It's so weird.
good point about butker only talking about women wanting to be parents and have kids⚛😀
Thank you Frank
2:52 - I think that "corrupt police force" might be a redundant phrase.
Fair statement.
You used the art of one of my favorite albums in your thumbnail! Great thoughts on your reading and all other topics. I've heard the same thing and agree about that Taylor Swift album title.
Is there a good way to contact you outside of comments? I'd love to have you as a future guest on my "Why Read?" discussion series sometime if you're interested.
The love that Album too.
I’d enjoy being a guest on your channel. You can email me at bbbookish@gmail.com
Love this Saturday Hodgepodge, Brian. I finally had to stop reading all of the Butker garbage. I went down the rabbit hole of reading comments in response to his neanderthal speech in The NY Times, and it was horrifying to me to read the comments from people defending him and agreeing with his comments. Handmaid's Tale, anyone? Horrifying and sickening....
I don’t know if there are more people who agree with Butker’s world view or if they just feel more comfortable expressing their regressive views now. Katy Britts plan for a national pregnancy monitoring data base is the most terrifying thing I’ve heard of for a long time.
@@BookishTexan yes, that one makes my blood run cold. Horrifying.
@@BookishTexan Back when Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey were overturned in one activist judiciary sweep, I was commenting on another site about the risks of pregnancy apps. One of the Anti-Christ "Christians" was offended that I would suggest that, because no district attorney would ever do this. I would go back and ask about this now, but I have decided that arguing with people who are dishonest "in the name of Jesus" is a waste of time.
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the strange thing about Taylor's boyfriend's teammate is that his mom is a medical physicist
Indeed. It’s almost like he has some mommy issues.
I’m glad to see the hodgepodge. Also pleased to have the Christian religion refresher. I’m very removed from the news, maybe I was hoping for the Alito flag (though I skipped your Trump talk).
What I dislike about the Taylor Swift title is that it reinforces a stupid stereotype. If poetry has any function it is to _remove_ people from torture. I’m reminded of a convincing article I read long ago that I’ve never been able to retrace, the premise of which being that the early death of Dylan Thomas was caused by bad medical treatment he got in the US, not because of his dissolute lifestyle. Just a reminder that people having access to food, shelter and healthcare (not to mention a little spending money) are basic issues that need to be addressed before almost anything else.
So there’s my rant for the day, now let me get back to _Disgrace._
Removing people from suffering is often done by getting readers/listeners/viewers to put themselves in the place of the tortured. We tend not to change things when we can comfortably ignore the suffering of others.
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My video about Trump’s Trials does touch on Alito (though in the video I said Scalia because I don’t script things). I think it is exactly that stereotype that Swift is mocking. It certainly seems that her lyrics and music remove a lot of young people from the tortures of youth.
@@BookishTexan I only know the Swift album at second hand - and I have the sense that the mocking aspect may have been lost or de-emphasized in what I’ve heard.
@@roguemedic Indeed.