The Anti TBR - Tag
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- čas přidán 24. 11. 2020
- The original tag was created by Nicole @Nicole&herBooks. • THE ANTI-TBR TAG (ORIG...
I was tagged (of course) by Steve @SteveDonoghue: • The Anti-TBR Tag!
Questions:
1. A popular book EVERYONE loves that you have no interest in reading?
Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (2020): / the-mirror-the-light
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)
The last book I dnf-ed:
JCO, Blonde (2000): / 357734.blonde
7. A series you have no interest in reading OR a series you started & have dnf’d?
Elena Ferrante, The Neapolitan Series: / l-amica-geniale
8. A new release you have no interest in reading?
J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog: / the-ickabog
and celebrity autobiographies
I tag:
Shawn @ShawnTheBookManiac: / @shawnbreathesbooks
Shey @Hey It’s Shey: / @heyitsshey
Robert @BarterHordes: / barterhordes
Nashwa @NashwaS: / @nashwas5761
Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com
twitter: / britta_boehler
goodreads: / 5497508.britta_b_hler
facebook: / britta.boehler1
Instagram: / brittaboehler
By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...
I also wrote some books:
New novel - to be published in Dutch in January 2021:
De juiste houding: www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20...
The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...
Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D...
as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
www.hodder.co.uk/authors/deta...
and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...
"Are you still here? Have you unsubscribed yet?" 🤣🤣🤣 I completely agree about celebrity memoirs/autobiographies. I've read enough of them that I'm not interested in reading any more. Much better, as you said, to read about the person's life from an outside perspective.
You were still there, Courtney, so: thank you!!
@ ❤️️❤️️
We are on the same team about Hillary Mantel's Cromwell series.
DudeBro reference!!
As much as am into politics, I have no interest in reading memoirs from politicians.
Love Hey Its Shay's channel.
Ha, yes, I thought it was about time for another Dude-Bro-refernece. LoL. And Shey's channel is wonderful, isn't it?
In which Britta gets vicious about Vicious. 🤪🤪🤣🤣
(and about Patchett 🥳👏🥳👏)
Haha, always happy to be vicious.
Loved the honesty.
Thank you!
Greetings from 2022! This video just popped up on my feed. I love that, when you don't like something, you say so. So many other Booktubers make apologies and excuses and qualify their answers to land in the least offensive way. You? "Just … NO". 👏 Agree with you 100% on Ferrante. Disagree with you 1000% on Patchett. To each her own. I thoroughly enjoy your intelligent, forthright, and amusing thoughts on all things bookish. Hope you are having a good day!
Thank you so much for your lovely comment anf your compliments, Nina! And indeed: to each her own. Happy for you that you enjoy Patchett so much more than I do!
I slept halfway through The Revenant. I didn’t even know what I watched.
Haha, this comment made me laugh out loud!
Fascinating!
Thank you, Alba!!
Haha. I agree with every one of your choices. On the autobiography subject, I especially despise the so-called comedic or humorous celebrity memoir. I’m not interested and I just don’t find them funny. The writing is usually mediocre at best and I just don’t understand their appeal.
Joyce Carol Oates and Ann Patchett are two writers I thought I would like, but I’ve yet to finish one of their novels. I also tried Elena Ferrante and didn’t care for it. When I see people gush about these authors, I think maybe I’m missing something, but now I am vindicated! I gave up on Patchett back in the spring and, just recently, after yet another attempt, I gave up on Oates. Another series that everyone seems to love is the Gilead books. I couldn’t make it through the first book.
Ah, so happy to hear I'm not alone with my 'issues'!
I don’t know if it’s because I’m in your age group, but I agree with all your selections. Especially the last question! Thank you for not being with the crowd! Amen!
Ha, book wisdom comes with age, right? :-)
" because of, you know, reasons..." 😍🤣😁
LoL!
I agree regarding celebrities' autobiographies. Especially when it comes to politicians. Since I consider politicians to be, in the majority, self-centered liars and thieves, there's no way any autobiography would be even close to the truth, so I'm not interested.
Haha, yes, thats a good reason not to read them.
Queen Britta doing tags! 🙌
Haha, thank you!!
There's SO much here on which we're in 100% complete agreement! What on Earth is happening?
Great minds think alike?
Oh dear, this is BAD!!
I have a great mind, yes. Oh, wait, you meant both of us... Mmh, well... LoL.
@ 🤣🤣🤣
Wonderful!
Thank you!
This was great Britta! I agree with most of what you said. I enjoyed listening to the Ferrente books, but probably would not have enjoyed reading them. I tried to convince myself that I liked Wolf Hall, but I think I might be with you. I like some adventure stuff (ships) but Hemingway is someone I'm just not that interested in as well. Mark Twain is a bit different, I really liked Huckleberry Finn, but then again the 19th century novel is wheelhouse.... (I saw on goodreads that you didn't care for Crime and Punishment, which I just finished and loved).
Aww, thank you so much, Cathie! And yes, I was so bored by Crime & Punishment but I might give it another try in the Svetlana Geier translation: that might help!
I've listened to so many memoirs this year and Greenlight was on the better side of things. Well told and the stories he tells are grand. Very entertaining and fast paed on audio. Which is what I like about celebrity memoirs, being entertained.
Ah, ok, maybe I should try the audiobook, then. Thanx!
I so agree with you about autobiographies.
Ah, glad I'm not alone!
Totally with you on the celebrity/political autobiographies. I think the only one I ever read was years ago - Katharine Hepburn's book Me. She was such an interesting person, but I confess that I don't remember any of it. I even have trouble with biographies of the celebrity/politician ilk. When I read biography (which I seldom do), they tend to be of scientific types - Einstein, Oppenheimer and Feynman were all of interest to me. Happy reading!
I love biographies about science people as well! And happy reading to you, too!
I agree with you wholeheartedly about autobiographies. I am interested in reading about political figures from a historical or political perspective. I am on the same page as you are with respect to Hilary Mantel. I own the trilogy but really struggled with the first fifty pages of the first book and haven’t returned to it! I really enjoyed this Tag - a little snarky but not overly so!😂😏
Happy to hear you've enjyoed the little snark!
Oh wonderful snarky Britta! I can't say I disagree with anything you said in this video. It seemed like you were speaking my mind! Yea!😘
Thank you so much!
I agree with everything. My book club chose For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway for our monthly read. I read it but ended up quitting the book club because of the reading choices that were just so awful.
Haha, I hope you will find another bookclub with better choices!
thank you! i was thinking i was the only one that did not enjoy My Brilliant Friend. I struggled the entire way through it
Ha, glad we found each other!
Cheerful snark! 👏🏻😄
Thank you!
I hit the like button as Britta says "Are you still here?" 🤣 I did read Hillary Mantel's Cromwell series and I plan on rereading it, but I'm with you on Ann Patchett... I just don't get it!
Haha, thank you Ana-Maria!!
Would you make an exception for Idris Elba? 😂🤣
Only if the book has pictures. LoL.
I agree with all your answers. 😷👋📚☘️☕️🦋📖🍂
How wonderful, thank you!
I STILL haven’t read My Brilliant Friend! I’m gonna get my BookTube card revoked. 😂🤣
Well, what can I say? I hope you will enjoy it more than I did!
Well I haven’t read Rebecca so we’re going down together. 🤣🤣🤣
We’re in complete agreement about Ferrante. All her work gets a hard no from me.
Great job on this tag, Britta.
Thank you, Gail. And yeah a big NO for Ferrante!
I read The Host by Stephanie Meyer and really liked it. It is adult sci fi and no vampires or teenage angst.
Have you read J K Rowling’s crime mysteries which she writes as Robert Galbraith? I don’t think I have heard you talk about them.
Yes, I read (and quite liked) the Galbraith-books in the past. Not sure, I want to continue, though. The last one was a bit boring...
Not EVERYBODY is gushing about Mantel's Cromwell series. 🙋🏼♀️
Also no interest in the Ferrante series as well! Never had, never will.
I think I agree with everything you said, apart from that I have only read one book by Ann Patchett, Commonwealth, and really liked it. So I would give her a try again.
Well, agreement on everything but Ann Patchett, I'll take it. LoL.
I am actually the opposite when it comes to horror, I do not get scared by the movies but sometimes get scared while reading a horrific scene.
Thats so funny!
Britta, I agree with so many of your opinions! I also feel that many biographies and autobiographies are about Americans. I'm not interested in American history, politics or pop culture. Perhaps I'm saying that because I'm Canadian, so my whole life has either been bombarded with information about England (I'm also not interested in the British monarchy or politics in the UK) and the US.
Yeah, I can see your point about US/UK celebrities dominating the book market...
I don't care for Anne Patchett's books either with one exception, "Run". I read it when it was first released and just loved it. It's very different from her novels, I think, and you might give it try before writing her off completely, if you haven't read it yet.
I havent read Run, and I will put it on the list to try. Thank you!
I love snarky Britta! I got through book two of the Neopolitan series before I gave up. Not for me!
Phew, so happy to hear that about the Ferrante-series!!
Agreed: "problematic" is problematic
Thank you!
Loved the answers though I am fatigued after seeing multiple version of this tag by women and gay men who all list the usual white male suspects for classic authors you will never try. Dig deeper, people! :p
Britta Böhler mentioned JESSICA SIMPSON in a book video. Now where is my bingo card....
Haha, I will try harder next time, I promise!
Awesome video.
I tried so hard with Wolf Hall...got about halfway through and gave up on my second try. True I don't know anything about the Tudors other than that one book I read ages ago but I finished The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, a history I know even less about. I feel left out 😔.
I don't have much interest in reading any of the authors you mentioned. Dudebro...haha...I like Dickens and Oscar Wilde a lot though.
I did read the first Twilight book as a teenager but otherwise yes, fully with you.
Tried and failed - James Joyce, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and several postmodern/magical realist authors so far (Pynchon, Marquez, Rushdie, AS Byatt, DeLillo, Franzen, Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Murakami). And Cormac McCarthy.
💯 with you on horror (except I actually get scared or more precisely repulsed). I add romance, most YA, poetry and most non-fiction, especially biographies.
Ooh I know how everyone praises this quartet but somehow I just know it is not going to be for me. I read a lot of science fiction/fantasy but two non-SFF series are the Cromwell series (I'm sad about not being able to finish Wolf Hall) and The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (quit after Book 1).
I grew up with Harry Potter and I have no interest in reading anything beyond that (not because she is problematic, I still reread Harry Potter, but just because it doesn't interest me).
Same - no interest in autobiographies.
I don't know much about new releases really.
I had so much fun watching this. Happy reading!
(scared question - have you tried anything by Donna Tartt and did you like it?)
Thank you for your lovely comment! And yes, I do like Donna Tartt. Secret History is probably still my favorite but I also liked The Goldfinch and Little Friend. And I love Oscar Wilde as well! 😊
@ Yay! I read (and reread) all three of her novels this year and she became a new favorite author - for me it's a tie between The Secret History and The Goldfinch😊 with The Little Friend close behind but the difference is like 9.5 and 9/10.
I keep searching for an author who will wow me the same way just for the writing style. If there is any author you think is worth trying, please let me know if possible (I have seen your favourite novels video).
@@Paromita_M Ah, thats great! I dont know whether you also read scifi/fantasy-novels but the only auther who wowed me recently was N.K. Jemisin (Broken Earth Series).
@ I do read a lot of SFF! Ursula K LeGuin and Octavia E. Butler are some of my recent SF finds (The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthseed duology respectively) along with Jeff Vandermeer (Annihilation).
I keep meaning to read Broken Earth and postponing, this might be the push I need to actually read it. Thank you so much!
Are you familiar with "Severance", by Ling Ma? While it is technically a zombie story, it is quite a quiet and contemplative one... The zombies aren't even particularly threatening in a physical, chase-tirelessly-after-people way (they are a threat due to their contagious nature, and due to the breakdown of society provoked by it).
Incidently, I have Severance on my TBR, so I might give it a try even though it's about zombies...
same with celebrities! I just don't care about them to read their book. and also vicious is so beloved and I dnfed it. But wolf hall3... 😡
We don't have to agree on everything, that would be boring, right?
@ totally! except for ... hilary mantel! 😤😆
@@Nastya-uj9bg LoL.
I very much appreciate your discussion of “problematic” books and authors. But I must say I am sorry to hear about Patchett. I still have not read her, but I had good thoughts about her nevertheless. Thanks, though. Whenever I’m sure I will love something, I am almost always disappointed. This time, if I ever get to her, I will go in with more open eyes.
I'm so curious to hear whether you will get along with Patchett! Let me know once you've read her. X
Like so many others I’m with you on the celebrity autobiography, I don’t really understand the cult of celebrity anyway, just because you are famous doesn’t mean you have anything interesting or insightful to say or that you say or write it well. I’m sure there are exceptions but no thank you. When you mentioned snarky and intelligent booktubers Nashwa was my first thought!
Yeah for Nashwa, she is fabulous! And I couldnt agree more re the whole celebrity-thing...
Agree to disagree about The Mirror and the Light?
Absolutely! I know that many readers love those books, and I can see why, but they are jst not for me.
I thought I was the only one that really did not like My Brilliant Friend!
Oh, really? I thought the same thing!
Still subscribed? haha
I think that most people who watch this tag don't mind hearing different opinions. It's what we're here for, isn't it? Otherwise, it wouldn't be fun...
You're probably right, people watching my channel expect nothing less. LoL.
Agree with you on most of them, particularly Mantel, Ferrante and Hemingway. I don't see the appeal. However, Obama is such an excellent writer, I will be reading his new book. Fortunately all kinds of books for all kinds of tastes.
Yes, indeed, re different tastes. I hope you will enjoy the Obama-book, happy reading!
Snarky is just another word for honest! Loved this video and I agreed with all of your opinions. I thought I was the only one who had no interest in Obama's autobiography or Michelle's! I do not read many biographies or autobiographies as most people are not that interesting to me. The one exception I have made in recent years is Walter Isaacson's 'Leonardo Di Vinci' - which is one of the best books I've ever read.
I wonder what you would say about changing tastes in reading? When I was younger I loved JCO, Hilary Mantel and even Ann Pachet - now their novels do not hold my interest. Thanks so much for your interesting video!
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Melanie. And I definitely think one's reading taste changes over time!
My partner and I went to see the Revenant in the cinema and I walked out after about 15 minutes. It is horrible. And I totally agree about Bel Canto. It is just so boring. And it just fizzles out in the end. I don't get why it is so loved. And I haven't tried anything by Elena Ferrante yet, but It really does not appeal to me. Autobiography in general are not my favourite genre. I love memoir, but autobiographies are just too long and cover too many uninteresting details that I can do without. A̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶J̶e̶s̶s̶i̶c̶a̶ ̶S̶i̶m̶p̶s̶o̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶i̶m̶a̶g̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶ ̶I̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶e̶s̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶,̶ ̶L̶O̶L̶
So, I'm still subscribed.
PS, I am rereading my favourite book at the moment and I just HAD to recommend it to you. If you like snark, memoir and books about books, *84, Charing Crossroad* is a must read.
Thank you for sticking with me!! And happy to hear that I'm not the only one re Ferrante and Pathcett and celeb autobio's. Oh, and I adored 84, Charing Cross!!
@ I finished Bel Canto, because I just couldn't believe that it wouldn't get any better, seeing everyone loves it so much. I should just trust my gut. ;) So thnx for warning me off the Ferrante.
@@-ParisTexas- You're welcome! :-)
I read Michelle Obama's book...it was okay. I skim read much of it. But Barack Obama? Ferrante? TWILIGHT??? Britta...I'm questioning my subscription. I may not be here for your next video. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (If I was commenting from my phone I'd add my typical ROFL emojis...)
If it's any consolation, I question my subscription every time Britta uploads a video! I think that might be the common slogan of our little corner of BookTube: "Um, I'm REALLY not sure I want to keep associating with these people ..." Heee
@@saintdonoghue 🤣🤣🤣 It may be time to consider divorce...
Haha, it makes me happy to have made you laugh!!
You are subscribed? Damn!
Don't give him any ideas! Next thing you know, he wants alimony!!
Hello from a new fan....I can't agree with you more...Hilary Mantel and Elena Ferrante....boring.
Ha, happy to have a new fan, thank you!!