The Anti TBR Tag [CC]
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- In which I do the #antiTBRtag...on Tag Thursday. (Tag Thursday is becomming a thing, right?)
I was tagged by Ben @doomantidote
• ANTI TBR TAG! | books ...
The original tag was created by @Nicole & Her Books
• THE ANTI-TBR TAG (ORIG...
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@Knitting, Books, etc.
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Questions:
1. A popular book EVERYONE loves that you have no interest in reading?
2. A classic book (or author) you don’t have an interest in reading?
3. An author whose books you have no interest in reading?
3.2 A problematic author whose books you have no interest in reading? you can combine questions 3 & 3.2 or you can answer them separately if you have an answer for both
4. An author you have read a couple of books from & have decided their books are not for you?
5. A genre you have no interest in OR a genre you tried to get into & couldn’t?
6. A book you have bought but will never read? (this can be a book you have unhauled/returned to the library unread)
7. A series you have no interest in reading OR a series you started & have dnf’d?
8. A new release you have no interest in reading?
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"Midcentury Misogynists" a band name to SKIP I'm with you there, too.
Band name? Perfect! And perfect band to skip, too...
Thumbnail of the week! Perhaps the month!
Ayn Rand and Margaret Atwood would be on my anti tbr list. I love how calm you seem while roasting different genres and writers! 😊
Now that I've been thinking about literary dinner parties, I am suddenly imagining Ayn Rand and Margaret Atwood having drinks together. I would love to be a fly on the wall for that meeting...
I loved hearing your thoughts on these books and authors! 💕
I completely agree about JRR Tolkien. I tried to read The Hobbit and I was very bored. 😅
And again I agree with Ready Player 2...I read the first one and was very underwhelmed! 😬
I had Lonesome Dove on my bookshelf for probably 25 years and finally read it last month. I enjoyed how easy it was to read and the descriptions of the old west and it's characters.
I am fairly convinced that I should put Lonesome Dove on my TBR at some point fairly soon. So many fellow readers who usually don't read Westerns have really loved it. Thanks for your input!
Well, now I know who the booktube knitters are! 😎
Heh, my ex-husband also fell asleep during the first Lord of the Rings movie. Actually, now that I think about it, he may have fallen asleep during the second one too... 😆
There are quite a few bookish knitters and I am finding more all the time. So--did your ex-husband become your ex-husband because he fell asleep during LOTR?
@@HannahsBooks Heh, no (we lasted another 17 years after that, probably because we reached the compromise that he was allowed to go home mid-movie during "geek" films), but that should definitely be the story I tell! 😆
Thank you, Hannah for tagging me! I will have to think a lot about these questions.
I’m a LOTR fan. And there are very strong women there.
I would love to hear about your take on the strong women in LOTR. That might make an interesting video!
@@HannahsBooks On my next reading of LOTR I will pay especial attention to this topic and then maybe I will talk about it in a video. Good idea.
I was nodding away at everything you said for the genres question. I've read few straight up romance books (though not opposed to it at all), not really interested in sci-fi or fantasy save a few titles, will not touch horror, not really into thriller and to be honest wouldn't even know where I would go to get westerns in my local bookshop 😂
I don't know where to get westerns either, but I think I might try Lonesome Dove at some point--probably from the public library. Genres just in general don't make sense to me. What DOES appeal is books that straddle the line between those genres and more traditional literary fiction. Still, I don't seem to be reading much fiction of any kind at the moment...
On War and Peace, as long as you have a basic understanding of the Russian patronymic system, the names shouldn’t be a problem. I had a little bit of trouble remembering who some of the more minor chacacters were, but it wasn’t anything a character list couldn’t quickly sort out. As for A Man Called Ove, it’s okay, but you aren’t missing anything by skipping it. This is really funny, but I also use the term “Midcentury misogynists” to refer to Updike, Roth, Miller, et al, and I also have NO desire to read them. I think I once made it through about 10 pages of a Roth novel before giving up. Infinite Jest is the elephant on my bookshelf that I will never read, though I did enjoy DFW’s first novel and have read and enjoyed his essays. These kinds of videos are fascinating to me and I enjoyed your take on it.
Thank you for your comment! I love that you also use "midcentury misogynist"! It does seem like a perfect descriptor, so I'm honestly would not be surprised if it is in even more common parlance.
Thanks so much for tagging me! It's been ages since I've done a tag and this one has caused me to reevaluate my reading style self narrative! I enjoyed hearing your responses. I am a LOTR fan but completely get where you are coming from with it. I think we may share similar views of Margaret Atwood as well. I would like to get to Lonesome Dove at some point in the future. I read McMurtry's The Last Picture Show last year and enjoyed it. Thanks again for the tag!!
I am thrilled to find you on Booktube and very much looking forward to hearing more from you!
Ooh, have to go check out Angela Thirkell now! I'm enjoying the remanufacture of literary folks into new settings 😍
Her books really diverge from Trollope, but I too love the "remanufacture" as you say. I've only read a bit of Trollope and a but of Thirkell, but both are on my list to explore.
Loved Olive Kitteridge, did not care at all for A Man Called Ove, I think because of, as you mentioned, the quality of the prose. And oh I do so hope you will give W&P a try one day. I read it earlier this year and, contrary to what I was expecting, it was sooo readable (I think the translation makes a huge difference - I read the Maudes translation) and, surprisingly, the names weren't nearly as confusing as I had always heard they would be. I read a little bit every day over a couple of months and loved it!
Thank you so much for the translation advice and for your comment that the names were not too confusing. A few other commenters have agreed with you about that point and it is definitely reassuring. I suspect I won't get to W&P in 2021, but I think it might ought to be one of my big reads for 2022... (And Olive Kitteridge might get read in late December or early January, if I can get a few writing projects finished on time.) Thanks for your encouragement!
You are so much more measured than me but equally scathing underneath. You hide it better! I am adopting mid century misogynist as a label. Perfect.
I have read a load of Atwood but stopped a few years ago. I feel like she ran out of inspiration that would interest me at least.
2021 could be the year for your War and Peace adventure?
I am thinking it might not be until 2022, given how much I have already sketched out. But yes, I do need to make a commitment to myself about it...
War and peace is on my shelves too but I think the only way I will get to it is to buddy read it as it’s size scares me
That is a great idea, Emily. If you still haven't read it by 2022, let's plan a buddy read together!
@@HannahsBooks oh I’m planning to read it June, July and September with Gemma and my sister Charlie if you want to join us
@@novellenovels I have to pass this time, but I can’t wait to hear what you folks think!
Hi Hannah, I read both a man called Ove and Olive Kittredge. I didn’t care for either one but I finished both albeit with a bad taste in my mouth. I don’t know which one was worse but I’ll pick a man called Ove. I found it boring. I also I’m not into the fantasy or science fiction genre And I agree with you that we should save our energy for books we truly care for. I don’t know if you’re familiar with The spoon theory. It’s a metaphor for how much energy people with chronic illness have. We start out in the morning with a certain amount of spoons and use them up as the day goes by. Every day we wake up with a different amount.When our spoons are Used up, we have to stop and refresh. As a woman of 70 with a chronic illness, I use my spoons with care. My comfort reads are mysteries and nonfiction. I also like classics, but I hesitate before taking on a tome. I’ll never read war and peace. I’ll never read Lord of the rings. But I have read all of Agatha Christie’s mysteries and since I joined booktube , All of Anne Brontë. I love memoirs of ordinary people, not usually celebrities. But I am reading Trevor Noah’s Born a crime because I like him. We are all different readers and there is a place on book tube for all of us. I loved your video. Mahalo and aloha
I love the thought of applying the spoon theory to reading! I too find mysteries to be very comforting, but for some weird reason I don't think I have read a single one this year. Perhaps I should add one or two to my informal December TBR!
As a huge Tolstoy fan, I’d recommend reading his shorter prose, like his last novel Resurrection, or short stories, for example The Death of Ivan Ilyich, or Kreutzer Sonata. If you love these masterpieces, you’ll definitely want to read War and Peace, if you don’t, maybe you shouldn’t waste your time. Anna Karenina is of course an excellent novel too, but it’s a long one, that’s why I’m not mentioning it
thanks for the advice ! I want to read his long works but starting with the short stories might help
Thank you, Alena. I really loved Anna Karenina--long but within the length that doesn't completely intimdate me. Your enthusiasm as well as many of the other commenters' enthusiasm has made it clear that I really, really need to put War and Peace on my list! I appreciate your encouragement.
YES--I wipe it from the mental hard drive after I make that decision too--it's a dubious superpower, but I will take it!! lol
Yes, I've heard great things about Larry McMurtry's writing from literary folks who are not Western readers 🤔👏🏼
There are definitely a lot of Lonesome Dove fans who have chimed in. I hope to get to it eventually, but I think War and Peace may have to come first!
Yey! Was looking forward to this. I'm exactly the same with Lotr, I remember trying to read it years ago and getting frustrated at the lengthy detailed tea breaks they have 😄 I'm also going to have a go at War and Peace next year... I feel its time...
Ha! Any chance you've read the wonderful Swallows and Amazons books from Arthur Ransome? Growing up in the States, I didn't grow up with them but found them when my own son was young. My very favorite parts were the frequent tea breaks!
@@HannahsBooks i haven't but maybe tea breaks in novels aren't as bad as I think 😄
@@doomantidote I definitely needed my own tea breaks to get through a few novels...
This was fantastic - although (or maybe because?) I disagreed with so much of it! And it made me yearn even more to do one of my patented Zoom chats with you! But: is it even scientifically possible for introverts to join me on Zoom?
Thanks, Steve. I would love to hear your defense of any of these books. I think I might be willing to try a Zoom session with you. I’ll email you and we can chat?
Loved this, Hannah! It was great to hear the different ways you describe the very real failings of particular writers or books. My wife liked Infinite Jest enough to finish it, but she shares so many of your thoughts on the mid-century writers, and that perspective has helped me rethink works, though I never like Roth and found Updike’s novels boring as well as narrow. The quest for the ring can also be quite boring, and I love that first sentence you recalled!
I have started to wonder about some of the booms that have huge character lists if the best way to read them is while making an interactive chart of relationships? But that’s also how I taught chemistry, hah.
Thanks again for sharing this. I hope you have a great weekend.
Best, Jack
I ran across that quote about gender in LOTR on a senior thesis shelf in the English department while my son was visiting colleges and trying to decide where to attend. He did not attend that particular school, but I have always had extremely positive feelings about that college just because of the great creativity of that line.
Your videos are always wonderful Hannah! Yes! Thrillers stress me out more than they entertain. I truly believe War & Peace is worth the time it takes to read. I do not like video games but I loved Ready Player One. I believe it was the nostalgia I felt from all the 1980's references that I loved so much.
Thank you! After reading all the support for War and Peace, I am fairly committed to putting it on my TBR perhaps not for 2021 but for 2022. All of you make it sound not only worth it but DOABLE. Very long books still scare me a bit...
OMGGG WAR AND PEACE IS JUST SO AMAZING! And surprisingly readable! I will say there are a lot of "essays" scattered throughout the third and fourth volume of the novel, which you can absolutely skip. That might make the novel seem a bit smaller haha
I am totally sold, although I may not start reading until 2021. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the lovely shoutout and will look up those other knitters! A particularly beautiful scarf against you glowing skin! Looks to be a warmer day today so hope you get outside...walking trail here I come!🙋♀️❤️📚🧶
Thank you! I am very late in responding, but today is sunny after days of rain--and although it is cold, it looks perfect for a long walk this afternoon! Hope you are doing well.
Oooh. Two bookmark books. Yes, please.
A kindred spirit!! Welcome!!
Not being a content creator myself, I am definitely a mood reader. After watching book tube for a few years I have compiled a ridiculously long reading wish list of several hundred titles rather than monthly TBRs. “The Lord of the Rings” and “Dune” are definitely not on the list. I am one of the readers that did enjoy both “Olive Kitteridge” and a “Man Called Ove”. Maybe an early love of Dickens’ classic tale “A Christmas Carol” left me with a soft spot for some pretty cranky characters. In a way, Ove can be compared to Ebenezer Scrooge. Each as a character evolves in their behavior with their fellows. Ove could even be a metaphor for 21stC Swedish society as it is currently evolving into a less homogeneous society. In my mind’s eye, Olive Kitteridge is embodied as a middle-aged Rosalind Russell. She’s a somewhat discontented high school math teacher. The book is more a series of overlapping short stories in which Olive appears. When she strides about her small Maine town she is not shy about giving her opinion about any and all to her neighbors. Like Ove and Ebenezer, at times, her more sympathetic aspects shine through. (Sorry this is a bit long.)
Thinking about Olive and Ove as literary cousins to Ebeneezer Scrooge is brilliant! I will pass the insight on to my husband, and try to get Olive read at the end of December sort of as a homage to Dickens (as well as my husband, who loves the book). Thank you very much for sharing this fascinating connection.
You are so much nicer than me!!! LOL! I did not enjoy Olive Kittredge that much. It was okay. And I would love to hear your thoughts if you decide to read Lonesome Dove, one of my favorites. :):):)
I think I will be reading Olive in late December or possibly early January--and Lonesome Dove is definitely a possibility sometime in the next couple of years. So many people I admire (like you) have really enjoyed it.
I've never understood the "I can't keep all the names straight" complaint about Russian patronymics. I have a sneaking suspicion that people who are used to skimming quickly over text encounter something that takes some slowing down, but they continue at their same reading speed - which would understandably make catching differences difficult. But careful, thoughtful reading (and how else would anyone ever want to read something like "Crime and Punishment" or "War and Peace"), I think, shows that the names aren't too tough to follow. And if you still think they are, there are resources online that you can print off and keep in the book as a bookmarker that group the identities of the different characters who often are called by different names.
Thanks, John. Several other people have given me comments saying that the name issue was not nearly as frustrating as they had been led to believe. You have all convinced me that I need to commit to this book, and while I have already filled my 2021 commitment list with a few really big books, W&P will be on my 2022 list, I think. Thanks again for the encouragement.
Hannah, I have never felt closer to you - I fell asleep during the first LOTR movie, too! 😂
For what it's worth, I thought Roth's Plot Against America was quite good. American Pastoral was also pretty good, but I liked The Plot Against America more. Didn't love The Human Stain, though. I'm planning to try to fit in Goodbye, Columbus (which I've heard good things about from colleagues I trust) before the end of the year.
War & Peace is totally worth it! (Anna Karenina is still my favorite Tolstoy, though.) Make it a 2021 project? 😇
Ha! We can nap together through movies whenever you like. As for Roth, I really hated Goodbye, Columbus but haven't read anything else. Perhaps I read it when I was too young, though. Can't wait to hear what you think.
@@HannahsBooks I will report back! 🙂
I loved Ready Player One but I am not interested in RP2 for some reason. Guess I have just moved on. I love Olive Kitteridge with all my heart. I understand not being interested in grumpy old characters, but I think Strout’s writing is excellent. I liked A Man Called Ove but the prose was no where near Strout’s.
I am probably going to read Olive in late December or possibly early January--since it is one of my husband's favorite books. I am also going to try A Gentleman in Moscow, another one of his favorites. Any chance you're read it and have thoughts?
I’m a video gamer, but I found Ready Player One problematic. There’s an uncomfortable amount of latent misogyny and racial stereotyping peppered throughout the book, and the writing is weak. I think it’s unintentional, but good intent doesn’t change the impact for me personally. I can’t imagine Ready Player Two would be devoid of those things, but I could be wrong.
This is a really interesting comment. I would to ask my local friends if they saw any of this and if so, what they make of it. Thank you so much for sharing this perspective.
Ooh I love a curmudgeon if the prose is good....Olive is worth getting to know , although I agree the premise is not tempting ...and am so with you about Atwood , I think she was right in her time but recent stuff is unreadable to me , although my daughter loves her ....and the whole LOTR thing ....retrograde step reviving those novels but, again , my son loves them ...where did I go wrong exactly ???
Sons should love LOTR I think. Full of male friendship and heroic perseverance.
Ah, the discussion of Handmaid's Tale as a commentary on slavery based on race?? Would love to hear more on this!
I will put it in my notes to talk about at some point. I wish I could remember all that happened in that class!
Always love your analysis. I really enjoyed Olive Kitteridge to a point so I can see what your husband loves about it. But then it hit a bump for me that seemed to “jump the shark” and just couldn’t recover from. Will be interested to hear your thoughts once you do read it. And my geekness will shine through but I adore LOTR. Both books and movie. I agree it is male centric. But that never bothered me per se. and I am a card carrying member of the feminist movement. :). What can I say other than I just love it.
Oh no, about the jump-the-shark moment! Hm. I think I'll be reading Olive either late this month or in the early days of 2021 and will hope for the best... How wonderful to hear that LOTR works for you. Another smart commenter expressed how strong some of the women are as well. Perhaps I need to give it another try. It has been a very long time!
I don't think not playing video games would hinder your enjoyment of ready player one, but the knowledge of pop references would definitely be necessary. I enjoyed that book, but I think it was over hyped. I have no desire to read the sequel.
How I missed so much pop culture baffles me, honestly--although my younger brother has similar holes in his knowledge and my parents were older than most of our friends' parents. I suspect that fact, and the fact that we did not have a television (basically) played a big role. My husband and some of his friends really enjoyed RP1 and I am curious to see how they will react to RP2.
I agree on Tolkein! I read The Hobbit but I don't want to read any more
Interesting! So many people seem to love him. I can't decide if I don't like Tolkien because I don't love fantasy, or if I don't love fantasy because I didn't like Tolkien.
I enjoyed this video, it give me much to ponder. Like you I have no interest in reading Ayn Rand, the Libertarians who worship her have a very narrow view of the world. I still enjoy Margaret Atwood and hope to at least start her short story collection Stone Mattress before the year is up. I haven't bought War and Peace but I did have it on my Kindle App for a while but it defeated me before I reached page 100 (of something like 1400). Would avoiding horror include such classics as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Definitely not! It has been perhaps too long since I read Frankenstein, but the goal of that book does not seem to horrify us. Interestingly, I also actively love Edgar Allan Poe, even when he treads on the borders of horror. I wonder what makes it different? I guess I like to be prepared for anything horrific, to be thinking about a character’s psychology, and that what I hate being jumped out at. Thanks for asking that question about Frankenstein. You’ve given me something I suspect I will ponder all day!
@@HannahsBooks I think what you dislike is the phenomenon of the cheap thrill, any crude effort to play on the reader's emotion whether in horror, thriller or misery memoir.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Ah! That makes it sound reasonable and coherent!
For me it is hard to say if I'll never read a book. Only because I want to form my own opinion of things.
I definitely agree with you in principle. I don’t mind saying that some books interest me far more than others, and by default that is likely to mean that I will only be able to read books higher on my priority list. But there are a few-like horror books unless I someone who knows me or who has similar tastes thinks I might enjoy-that I won’t pick up at this point. Refusing to read is different in my head from not being interested. If you left me for three hours alone in a room with only one book, I am sure I would read it!
urghhh Infinite Jest. Not for me . JRR Tolkien is wonderful but I do realize that not everyone loves his works. I occasionally reread Hobbit and LOTR but I have to be in the right mood for them. Westerns and Horror are not for me. I book I bought but never read was House of Leaves. I ended up donating it after many years of it mocking me as I walked past it on the book shelf lol. War and Peace is glorious . You MUST give it a try :)
You and some of the other commenters have said such wonderful things about War and Peace that I am definitely putting it up on my list. I've already sketched out a handful of big books for 2021, but I think W&P will definitely be on my 2022 list!
I thought Ready, Player One was just terrible. It was just a terrible, pandering, lazy work. I may try again one day, but for now...
Great tag!
Scott.
Ah! A couple of commenters have had some negative things to say about RP1--but yours is perhaps the most energetic and succinct. There are so many great books out there that I definitely feel permission to skip this novel.
Ready Player One is garbage
heh heh! Always good to hear.