This or That? 📚💜🌷 People April Book Tag
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2024
- This is that "This or That?" book tag: a new tag for People April and beyond,
created by Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks
Thank you Pat for tagging me! @BookChatWithPat8668 😊🌷
This was a very fun and thought provoking tag and I highly recommend doing it, even if you're not a big biography reader. I'm not either, but I might become one after this. Apparently I still had a lot to say.
I hope you're having a fantastic day, and if not that it gets better. I'm very happy to have you here. Grab a snack and/or beverage and let's have a chat about biographies and memoirs!
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ℹ Tag info:
Use this tag to talk about what you like or dislike in nonfiction about people. Pick the prompts that appeal to you or allow you to enjoy being opinionated. Do mention books good and bad as you go along.
1) Big, fat and detailed biographies or short and succinct biographies?
2) Celebrity memoirs or Average Joe memoirs?
3) Complete correspondence or selected letters?
4) Memoirs written when the events are fresh or memoirs written with hindsight?
5) Gossipy biographies or scholarly biographies?
6) Diaries of ordinary life or diaries of extraordinary events?
7) Arty memoirs or sporting memoirs?
8) Gritty autobiographical writing or inspirational autobiographical writing?
9) Biographies of historical figures or biographies of contemporary figures?
10) Memoirs of happy days or memoirs of tragic days?
11) Bonus prompt from Elisabeth: The Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys (over 4000 pages or 116 hours and 16 minutes of audiobook) or Selections from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (which can be as short as 120 pages or 3 hours and 55 minutes of audiobook)?
12) Tag some others!
👉 I'm tagging these lovely people! Check out their channels :)
Laura @bookloverlaura
Chelsea @LibrariesandLattes
Katherine @RaspberryReads
Øystein @becomingabookworm
Cat @Curious-Cat
Bryndis @Bryndisdaugtherofgunnar
Mariandrea @books_and_bocadillos
📚 Books mentioned:
438 Days by Johan Persson & Martin Schibbye
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angleou
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father And I by Raja Shehadeh
This Body I Wore by Diana Goetsch
Breaking Free by Rachel Jeffs
Educated by Tara Westover
Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young
Solito by Javier Zamora
Hysterical by Elissa Bassist
📚 In this video:
00:00 Intro
00:21 About the tag
01:10 Recs welcome :)
01:54 Prompt 1
03:26 Prompt 2
06:12 Prompt 3
07:05 Prompt 4
09:29 Prompt 5
10:03 Prompt 6
11:10 Prompt 7
11:45 Prompt 8
12:17 Prompt 9
13:46 Prompt 10
14:31 Bonus prompt
14:42 My Biography & Memoir TBR
15:31 I'm tagging you!
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I enjoyed your responses to these prompts. This was a thought-provoking tag. Hope you’re doing well!😊
Thank you Pat! Yes it was - apparently even if you know very little haha! 😅🌷
Great tag! ❤
Excellent tag, thanks for tagging me. I think I'm also in the grayscale club, but I will do my best 😉
Haha welcome! 😅 I look forward to your version 😊
Great tag! I can relate to gray scale! 😂 I am a libra and our sign is the scales. ⚖️ We have to weigh everything equally!
Haha I can imagine! My partner is a Libra as well, I would say he’s the same ^^ Although he laughs at my indecision all the time 😅
Thanks for the tag 💛 That's a fun one! I think we can probably start a grayscale club 😆
Haha yes if I hadn’t already named this channel a book club, that would be a great name for it 😂 No answers, but a lot to say haha
I am the same on the celebrity vs average Joe. For me it depends more on the story they share and not necessarily whether or not they are famous. I also tend to see things from different sides. It seems like as soon as I make a decision one way, I see another point of view and then I'm torn!!
Yes! The fame might be part of the story, but it’s not that interesting in itself. It’s like someone writing a book about how popular they are 😅 Obviously they’re human too, but yeah, there needs to be something more to it.
It’s exhausting sometimes, but a good thing as well I think. Not falling too easily into either or. Omg I’m doing it right now haha 😂
Thank you for doing the tag. We set some impossible choices and often the answer has to be a bit of both. Grayscale is a good way to describe it.
I'm glad it inspired you to pick up a book you have been meaning to get to and it turned out to be a good one. We all have a fair few of those.
Thank you for making it! 😊 Yes grayscale has actually been a nickname of mine, because I very rarely see things as black or white.
I look forward to reading more memoirs and biographies, which I never thought I would say! 😄
@@ellenmadebookclub I think seeing all those shades of grey is a strength.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I do too, most of the time 😊 Thank you!
Sorry for not watching this sooner. I love a good opinionated answer. 😁
Thanks for watching at all 😊 Haha me too! Sorry for not saying your channel name correctly, I could have checked beforehand. You live and you learn! Great tag and I’m excited to read more memoirs now!
Lol, I nodded and smiled along alot while watching your video. Choosing this or that is not easy when you enjoy a little bit of everything. 😅. I'm a little behind on tags but ill get to it soon. 🤓
Haha I know, I don't know why though because I have very little experience and yet find it so very important to think everything though so very carefully 😅 Glad you enjoyed though, and no rush! 😊
Oh I love reading letters! The letters of Nicholas and Alexandra are probably my favorite, but I also enjoyed Jane Austen's. I have letters by the Brontes on my shelf waiting to be read as well.
Who are they? 😂 (N&A, not Austen and the Brontës) What do you like about it? I mean I can understand why it would be interesting to read peoples letters, I just haven’t come across it really, but I’m open to new things ^^
@@ellenmadebookclub They were the last tsar and tsarina in Russia prior to the revolution. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Their lives and love stories were so fascinating, and their death so tragic.
@@insearchofwonder Right thanks for clarifying 😅 I’m sure their correspondence would be interesting! I would probably still prefer something more contemporary though, I say having not tried it
Thanks for the tag! I never read biographies, so unfortunately, I don't have anything to say! 😅
I thought the same thing, and yet I managed to ramble on for a really long time! 😂 And I really want to get to reading memoirs now haha! No pressure though, if it's not your thing, just consider it a little shout out! 😊
I do love a good biography usually from a historical figure
That's great! Do you have any recs for me as a beginner on biographies? 😊 And welcome to the club, I'm happy to have you here!
@@ellenmadebookclub well I just bought American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. I enjoyed Oppenheimer the movie so I decided to read the book to get all the juicy details haha. Other than that I love Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It’s about the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympian WW2 vet. The book is non fiction but written like a fictional tale because his life is just amazingly unbelievable !
Sorry for the late response, TH-cam decided to flag this for some reason. But that's a great recommendation! I haven't seen the movie yet but I definitely will. Unbroken sounds very intense as well, but it does sound like a good one! Adding that! Thanks!
Love the grey scale, it’s so relatable 😂😂 Our personalities are so similar, I am always seeing both sides to everything too! I can’t remember if you’ve read Know My Name but it’s my favorite memoir (tied with Finding Me)!
Haha yes it sure seems like it! It's a blessing and a curse! 😅
No, I haven't read it, but reading the synopsis it sounds exactly like something I would watch a documentary about, so definitely adding that! Thanks!
It made me think of... Victim/Suspect I think it's called, on Netflix, if you've seen that? And the Unbelievable mini series. Ugh, too many cases, but I think it's good to stay aware, I guess.
I don't know if you do tags that much by the way! If not, no pressure, just consider it a shoutout ^^
@@ellenmadebookclub haha yes definitely a mix of both! Okay cool, yeah I would add it to the list, it’s heavy but so good. I haven’t seen either of those (I never watch tv these days haha) but I’m sure they would be interesting and disturbing to watch!
And I haven’t done any tags besides my first video so who knows if I’ll end up doing this one, haha but thanks so much for the shoutout regardless! ❤️
@@LibrariesandLattes I don’t a lot either, or it goes in waves I guess, but when I do it’s usually something like that. Love a good doc series 😊 Unbelievable is drama though, but based on true events I think.
Yeah no pressure at all, its there if you ever run out of video ideas ^^ 💜
I had to come visit your channel after the comment you have left me! I have only started reading biographies last year (only read three haha) and I quite enjoy them. I also have Finding Me by Viola Davis on my physical tbr but still haven´t gotten to it yet. But Jennette McCurdy´s one was a highlight for me.
You are very welcome here! 😊 I haven’t read many either and it was a long time since the last one. I’m getting back into reading since last year, so I’m kind of finding my way with it again, to see what I like. And I think I might enjoy memoirs more than I thought I would! What were the other two that you read?
@@ellenmadebookclub That's awesome. The others were Spare by Prince Harry, because it seemed like everyone was reading it back in January of 2023 and Paris Hilton's memoir. Spare wasn't too bad but I feel like it was quite boring at times and based on your preferences wouldn't be the one for you. The Paris Hilton one was actually interesting since she had a troubled childhood and therefore a lot to say.
@@Olgyta I watched the documentary about Harry and Meghan, I thought that was good but there was a bit more to that story. I’ve been eyeing Paris’s biography, she’s not someone I’ve followed over the years but I would probably rather read her story! 😊 Although there are other I would rather get to
@@ellenmadebookclub The documentary also made me pick it up! I also didn't follow her as a person but my sister recommended it to me and it wasn't bad at all :)
@@Olgyta Good to know! 😊