I could listen to you talking about books all day. Thank you 😊
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@corinnearmstrong4451 thank you for this lovely comment! 😊
@booksimnotreading
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for tagging me! I posted it today as Gavin tagged me as well. Great minds think alike! 💛
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@booksimnotreading oh wonderful! I’ll check it out! 💚
@joshuacreboreads
3 ай бұрын
That volume of Wordsworth has clearly been very well loved! I haven’t read his preface, and didn’t realize its importance until this video. I also like that you mentioned Paradise Lost and 1984! I must have those opening verses by heart, and I have fond memories of reading 1984 right when COVID hit and school closed down. Thanks for tagging me, Pat! You are awesome.
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
Thank you, Josh. I can't bear to part with that Wordsworth volume, but it's really falling apart. I think it's taped back together with electrical tape! This was a very creative tag created by Gavin, and I really hope it is circulated widely. I'll look forward to your responses if you choose to do it!
@BookishTexan
3 ай бұрын
I love the Tour and your answers. Btw I have never read Les Mis and have no intention of doing so.🤓
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
Thanks, Brian! You make me laugh. Now that I’ve read Les Mis, it’s just you and Gavin then, the last men standing! I thought this was a very creative tag. I hope you’ll do it too. 😊
@LauraRodriguez-Peace
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Pat!😊
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@LauraRodriguez-Peace thank you! Gavin made a great tag!
@books_and_bocadillos
3 ай бұрын
Great tag! 👏🏽
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@books_and_bocadillos a fun one, for sure! Gavin created a great tag!
@constancecampbell4610
3 ай бұрын
Good tag. 🥖🍷
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@constancecampbell4610 this was really fun tag to do. Gavin created a great one here!
@purplepumpkin6894
3 ай бұрын
Hi Pat! What a great tag this is and a great video! "For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" - I love that you discuss the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. I enjoyed Wordsworth in college and have been enjoying him even more now as an adult. Many of my well-read friends prefer the more "rock star" Romantic poets like Keats, Byron, and Blake, but I've always preferred Wordsworth as he is the quiet philosopher-poet who laid the foundation for Romanticism. I know you'll make it through Ulysses! I read Ulysses once for an Irish Literature course I took in grad school. Our professor gave us a guide that paralleled what was going on in Homer's Ulysses with what was going on in Joyce's, which really helped, otherwise I would have never gotten through it. I also love the way you talk about discovering a book that made you know that reading was going to be an important part of your life, as you do with Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Watching you is like revisiting my favorite English classes in high school and college - thank you for your thoughtful videos.
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@purplepumpkin6894 thank you for this lovely comment. I, too, love Wordsworth….I wrote my Master’s thesis on him. This is my third reading of Ulysses. It’s a bit of a slog this time, but we have a great group of six of us who are slogging along together! I’m sure the guide that your professor provided was essential. Believe me, I’m reading several guides alongside the text this time around too! Thank you for always saying such kind things. You made my day! 🥰
@stuartgriffin1001
3 ай бұрын
Love your answers. Thanks for tagging me. I will do this one soon
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
Hi Stuart. I’ll look forward to your video. This was a lovely one to do. 😊
@JessBookgirlTV
3 ай бұрын
Thank you, for tagging me.
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
You're welcome, Jess. This was a fun one.
@RaynorReadsStuff
3 ай бұрын
Love this tag and your responses Pat. I’m going to tackle this one too. Great video 😊
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
Thanks, Debs. This one was a lot of fun. I'll look forward to your responses!
@patriciah8579
3 ай бұрын
Mention of The Sun Also Rises always reminds me of its wistful closing line, perhaps my favorite in all of literature. ‘Yes.’ I said. ‘Isn’t it pretty to think so?’
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@patriciah8579 yes! ❤️
@ellenmadebookclub
3 ай бұрын
Fun tag! Thanks for tagging me 😊 See, this is why I have to go thrifting every once in a while to try and fill my collection with books I can use for tags 😂 I can think of one French book that I own. I know that’s just bonus points but still ^^ Good job with Ulysses! You’re almost there! 👏 👏
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
Thanks, Ellen! Whatever justification works for you for thrifting is what you should use! 😂 Ulysses-what a slog this time around! 😳
@ellenmadebookclub
3 ай бұрын
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Haha that’s all I needed to hear! 😂 Only a little bit left to go, you’ve got this! 🚴
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@ellenmadebookclub oh I’m going to make it, I guess. But I might wipe out on the side of the road in the process.
@ellenmadebookclub
3 ай бұрын
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Oh no, I hope you’re joking! Or is it really that bad? What is difficult about it?
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
It's just written in a variety of different styles--no straightforward narrative, or very little anyway. Lots of stream of consciousness. You often don't really know who the minor characters are who are interacting with the two main characters. This week, we are reading just one chapter or episode, and it's 150 pages long, and every single character from the entire book appears in this chapter. Some of what Joyce is doing is fascinating. Some of it just feels very pretentious. I just feel much less patience with him at this point in my life. What I found fascinating and deeply poignant in my twenties is just feeling tedious now in my mid-sixties. Life is short. I have other things I want to be reading....
@GenreBooks23
3 ай бұрын
Merci beaucoup! Loved your choices, “Paradise Lost” was one of my set texts at “A” Levels, but only the first 2 books: have to finish that one day. I am also living proof you are not the last person to read Les Mis 😮
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@GenreBooks23 ok, well, then you better get onto that reading of Les Mis, then! 😂 This is a brilliant tag, Gavin! Thank you!
@FacelessBookReviews
3 ай бұрын
I've always loved the Tour de France since the Greg Lamond days. Thanks for the tag! Fun.
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
I thought Gavin did a brilliant job of creating this one. Really fun!
@FacelessBookReviews
3 ай бұрын
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Yeah not far how he can speak better French than us Americans. 🤣
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@FacelessBookReviews Lol!! Really, I was embarrassed by my pronunciations! 😳
@MyMessyBookshelf
3 ай бұрын
Very fun tag! I really enjoyed your answers. Hearing about your struggle with Ulysses on your third read makes me not feel so bad about being intimidated by it 😅 And thanks so much for the tag! It’s a very interesting one!
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@MyMessyBookshelf I thought it was a very creative tag!
@TriumphalReads
3 ай бұрын
I have read almost no classics Pat, so you were not alone with some that you mentioned haha. However, glad you included something of Zola. He is one that I have read and think he is underrepresented somehow
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@TriumphalReads yes, you are right, Justin. I was thinking I should revisit him.
@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
3 ай бұрын
By any chance would you want to team up for a buddy read for The Stand? You are not the only person who hasn’t read it yet! 😂
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH YES!!! Absolutely!! That might also be the only way I actually read it! I may need to wait until August so I can finish Ulysses (I’m in the read-along which wraps up in July). I’m also co-hosting Rocket Summer in July. And there’s Jane Austen, too, though I’m only planning to read one novel for that. August looks a bit less packed right now. How does that sound?
@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
3 ай бұрын
@@BookChatWithPat8668 that’s perfect!!! 😍
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
Hooray! Discussion to be continued!
@LibroParadiso-ep4zt
3 ай бұрын
Happy Sunday, Pat. When I too was 18 when I read my first Zola novel and it was Nana, about a Parisian prostitute, followed by Therese Raquin. Best first line, well it has to be from A Tale of Two Cities as read by Frasier to the barflies at Cheers, see link below:) kzitem.info/news/bejne/0ndv1IZ4mGqSeaw
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt you know, I almost picked A Tale of Two Cities, but I never could have done justice to it. This was absolutely BRILLIANT! Thank you! 😂👍🏼🥰👏🏼
@LibroParadiso-ep4zt
3 ай бұрын
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Not even Frasier's passionate reading and liberties managed to convince me to read Dickens, though:)
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@LibroParadiso-ep4zt Really? Not even A Tale of Two Cities?
@LibroParadiso-ep4zt
3 ай бұрын
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Not even A Christmas Carol. I've read around him, -Hardy, Flaubert, Stendhal, Dumas, Hugo-likely because I've seen so many of his books adaptations into films and t.v. (one of my favorites is Rod Serlings A Carol for Another Christmas set in the Cold War with Sterling Hayden as Scrooge and Peter Sellers as a psychopath-it's all star cast) I haven't bothered. I know, it makes me a pariah on booktube:)
@BookChatWithPat8668
3 ай бұрын
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt not a pariah at all. Lots of people don’t like Dickens. I guess I was just surprised that you hadn’t really encountered him anywhere along the way. I haven’t read all of Dickens-not even close-but I do like him, and I love a couple of his novels.
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