4k Q&A Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มี.ค. 2024
- In which I answer some of the wonderful questions you've asked me!
My WRITTEN REVIEWS mentioned :
The Letters of Emily Dickinson edited by Miller and Mitchell openlettersreview.com/posts/t...
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary Dearborn openlettersreview.com/posts/c...
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland openlettersreview.com/posts/m...
Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor openlettersreview.com/posts/c...
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans openlettersreview.com/posts/t...
My VIDEOS mentioned:
The WAR & PEACE playlist: • War and Peace Read-along
Skyrim Tag: • Skyrim Book Tag: The ...
Has Steve Read It? (Season 2): • HAS STEVE READ IT? The...
Has Steve Read It? (Season 1): • Has Steve Read It? Tag
Springtime Poetry Tag: • #SpringAThon Poetry Tag
Deathbed Tag: • The Deathbed Tag
Booktube Newbie: • Booktube Newbie Tag
Favorite Nonfiction: • The Spirit Catches You...
BOOKTUBERS with QUESTIONS:
@M-J at Reading This Life
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
@JoeSpivey02
Brian@BookishTexan
@heathergregg9975
Steve @saintdonoghue
and several great commenters!
ADDITIONAL BOOKTUBERS MENTIONED:
Greg @SupposedlyFun
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse
Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868
Una and Krypto @TheCodeXCantina
Katie @katiejlumsden
AUTHORS MENTIONED:
Charlotte Bronte
Mary Dearborn
Jenn Shapland
Jessmyn Ward
Hermione Lee
Danielle Evans
Anne Fadiman
Charles Dickens
Leo Tolstoy
Emily Dickinson
Evelyn Waugh
Jesmyn Ward
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You can never go wrong with Jane Eyre!
That is certainly the way I feel!
Wonderful video! Really enjoyed this.
@@coletti1011 Thank you!
How delightful. Thank you Hannah!
I appreciate it, Max.!
I'm so glad you have a channel on BookTube. I've learned so much from you and I've lost count of how many books you have inspired me to read.
I also just have to say that I could listen to your voice endlessly. If, for some inexplicable reason, you decided to make a video reading the phone book, I'd clear my schedule for that!😊
You are so kind, Mike! As I was cleaning out my mother's house a few days ago, I started recycling old phone books. Perhaps I should have saved one!
oh my it was delightful to have you reference the loved one...i've read it several times and it still makes me laugh.
I'm so glad there are other people who love that book!
@@HannahsBooks me too!
What a fabulous video. Always great hearing your thoughts on literature!❤
Thanks, as always, Brady!
Loved learning more about you! I will add Spirit Catches You to my wishlist - recommended by both you and David!
I hope you will appreciate the book as much as we did!
I've been reading 'Jane Eyre' since 1983. In recent years I've studied it and I've really enjoyed the post colonial criticism, it doesn't detract from the novel for me. I found the research into trade routes: madeira one way, slaves the other etc informative. Once of lover of the novel, always for me.
I totally feel the same way! I love reading criticism of all sorts about it--including critiques of her choice of partner and the colonialism stuff, much of which I am quite sympathetic to. But it doesn't stop me from loving the book--not even a tiny bit. I read the criticism specifically because I love the book, in fact, and I suspect most of those scholars do to!
I think this is the first time I’ve heard “The Loved One” cited on Book Tube. I really enjoyed its British “tongue in cheek” satiric take on Hollywood cemeteries and those dying to get in. 😉
Ooh, I am so thrilled to hear that you too loved The Loved Ones!
I so enjoyed watching this.
Thank you so much, Katie! You've been such an incredibly important force here on booktube!
I have complete empathy when you relate War and Peace discussions to 'unproductive slogs'! How churlish of Tolstoy not to have 21st century booktubers in mind when he poured out his heart 🤣
Ah yes...
Congratulations on 4.1K! Well deserved! You gave me chills when you read that Dickinson poem aloud. Happy reading and reviewing!
What a lovely comment, Johanna. Thank you!
What a great beginning to my day ❣️
So thoughtful and thorough 🤗
Oh, how lovely a comment! Thank you!
Hannah, this was SO much fun. I can’t wait for Part 2.
Thanks! I am so sorry I've been so slow in filming the next installments--and in responding!
Loved hearing your answers to these terrific questions, Hannah. Now, I need to check out the videos you’ve linked! Looking forward to Part 2!😊
Thank you so much, Pat. My apologies for being so slow to get out the next videos. I think I am going to have some extra time this week and might copy your multiple-tags-in-one-week example if I can get my act together.
I always enjoy your videos and this, as always, was very interesting.
Thank you so much, Claudia!
I've had The Loved One for decades but I can't remember if I've ever read it! Jotting down the Fadiman book on my TBR. I love your Dickinson choice!
The Fadiman is really wonderful. I hope you will give it a try!
Great video. Looking forward to hearing the rest of your answers.
My apologies for being so very slow getting them up! So glad you're here on booktube, Josh.
No reason to apologise! gotta look after yourself and do what works for you. plus I enjoyed the week to week release. and thank you ❤
I adore your choice of Dickinson! She’s absolutely my favorite poet-there’s just so much nuance to unearth in every poem 😊. Thanks for reading aloud!
Any chance you've heard of "ModPo"--the free online course on Modern American Poetry taught out of the University of Pennsylvania? It is pretty amazing, and the discussions of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are especially wonderful. The professor discusses the poems in detail with a groups of students. I think those videos are available on TH-cam, and I highly recommend them.
My resistance to really long fiction seems to be growing. Thanks for sharing that Dickinson poem.
This is worth talking about. 👍 (I’m moving opposite.)
@@davidnovakreadspoetry Ha! I just responded to your own comment and referred to that exactly. Maybe the three of us need to make a "Long and the Short of It" tag together?
Any idea why? I thought my own resistance to long books might be just my scattered attention right now--but maybe it is something larger...? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
So, if I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying Jane Eyre is worth a read?
This was wonderful. Great questions, thoughtful answers, and a beautiful reading. Thank you, Hannah. Your channel is a gift.
And, from someone who cannot so much as thread a needle, for what it's worth, your knitting is gorgeous!
You are too kind! And yes, I think Jane Eyre might be worth a read...
A “lame discussion on here”? Pfft. 😂 I’m glad this is only part one - and, as usual, I hear there’s a bunch of links I have to get to. I haven’t read any of Dickinson’s letters since, well… that early selected Linscott edition which yet carried the altered poems, still widely available in my time. Maybe it’s time to dive in. But I’ll check the review first.
Thank you so much, David! The letters are wonderful, but it is kind of a major project to read through them. Then again, you seem to have a talent for reading really long books right now! (I'm ridiculously behind on booktube right now but I'm hoping I can do some catch-up this week--including watching some of the many videos of yours I've saved...)
I hate colour work in knitting too. It always seem so easy to tangle the separate balls. I can do complicated lace, or cable designs.
Yes! The technicolor spiderweb that colorwork can produce in my knitting bag is truly terrifying!
Congratulations on 4K 🎉!
Thank you so much!
I loved the Dickinson poem. Dickens is a favourite, but not the favourite. I agree he is plot led and his characters can be exaggerated. However, he can brighten a winter day.
Yes! I can imagine a long Dickens might be just excellent during a snowstorm with a fire in the fireplace!
@@HannahsBooks exactly!
Congrats on 4k subscribers 😊
Thanks, Kami!
I want to give Donoghue a run for his money! When is the next season! I bet I can come up with ten books!
Oh my goodness--you really should! All it takes is for someone to get it started. If you haven't seen the ones before, look up a few, model your own video on the general set-up, call it Season 3, and get the ball rolling! Maybe tag a few people--especially new-ish booktubers. While I think I have exhausted my own possibilities of stumping Steve, I promise to advertise Season 3 and try to help you solicit contestants! In the previous seasons--or whatever other help I can offer. In previous seasons, Steve has happily played along, filming a response video to all the entries. (I'll warn you that no one ever seems to do very well against Steve in this game...)
Congrats on 4K! 😎📚👍
Thank you! How exciting to see you here. I am so glad I found your channel!
I think you forgot to mention Jane Eyre 😘
I was interested in what you said about War and Peace. I have read it a couple of times with great satisfaction but definitely allowed myself to skim read in places. Sometimes Tolstoy gets into a loop and I imagine he didn't have the kind of editor who would point that out. So I can see an in depth approach with multiple videos in mind being a stumbling block in enjoying the ride overall. Even in Anna Karenina there's more than I needed on agrarian reforms and local government structures.
I need to read another book by Jesmyn Ward sometime. I loved Sing Unburied Sing but have not read any others by her.
The pleasure of audio nonfiction has been a recent discovery for me. I think it works well because I don't resent someone else giving the book a voice and interpretation as I do with fiction.
Oh you have pegged exactly my thoughts on audio fiction, I think! After reading a section of a novel the other day, I downloaded the audio from the library to listen to as I ran errands for a few hours. The narrator's voice utterly changed how I saw the main character--and it took me a few days to pick up the book again and read from exactly the spot where I started listening. All was mended, thank goodness.
@@HannahsBooksyes that's exactly the risk. So fiction rereads by audio are safer as another interpretation can be interesting at that point.
Congratulations Hannah. I love you channel and I’m a regular viewer. I lived in Minnesota for five years where there is a large Hmong community and I made a lot of friends. I really should read the spirit catches you and you fall down.
I am with you in two things. I’m afraid of big books and I’m in the minority with you about Dickens. Shalom and aloha.
It is wonderful to have you here, Marilyn--on my channel and on booktube! If you do find Fadiman's book, I'm eager to hear your thoughts, especially given your time in Minn.
Awesome video to learn more about you and some of your insights. Great articulated answers. Unlike mine lol, i just recorded a 4k q and a as well with a friend and its not going to be as well put together as yours. I'm not super well versed in poetry but I do generally enjoy Emily Dickinson. I' ll have to check out some of the other tags you mentioned as well
I am so terribly behind on watching booktube (and on filming!) but please let me belatedly offer you my huge congratulations on reading four thousand subscribers! (I hope I can catch up a bit on reading, watching, and filming this coming week. A couple of your videos are on my list!)
@@HannahsBooks Thank you and no worries at all! I've been trying to make a more concerted effort to watch more and comment more as well with my return to booktube a couple months ago and I fall behind on watching those I subscribe to (too many to keep up lol). I'll have to go watch your part 3 now!
Well that half hour went quickly. Very interesting, thank you.
Thank you so much, Michael!
Enjoyable thoughtful video.
Thank you so much, Marcia!
I read War and Peace when I was 17 or 18. I had no background in the history. I had no teacher. I thought it was fine I guess, although I had some frustrations with it, but combining my experience with my sexist brother who loves Tolstoy because of his sexism, I'm not sure I'll ever go back to it.
Wow--yes, I can imagine that your experience might definitely shape your perception of this book! I'm so sorry that something like that has happened to you.
Oh no, I missed my chance to ask a question! Never mind, because the ones here are great.
This is just an amazing place full of kind and creative thinkers. It was so much fun thinking through these great questions.
On my way to pick up a copy of Jane Eyre and read it ASAP! Between the Brontë sisters, Austen, and Eliot, I have plenty of great English literature to indulge in
Oh how wonderful! I hope these books will resonate with you. I might also suggest Thomas Hardy!
@@HannahsBooks I've actually been looking for him on recent book store trips. Is "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" the place to start or do you have a favorite of his?
@@TheActiveMind1 I absolutely love Tess, but any of his big novels could work. My spouse liked The Return of the Native best. If Tess doesn't work for you, try that one. Or, if you don't like how dark Hardy can be, you might try the widely beloved novel Far from the Madding Crowd. I can't wait to hear what you think of all these English classics!
Hannah, what interesting and full answers to the questions, including my own - you really open up and focus questions. (Which sounds contradictory, but you know what I mean). That Fair Isle colour work waistcoat looks lovely but at the extreme range of this technique. You might like to try a Kaffe Fassett design from the 1980s - he brings together lots of colours but tries to keep it to 2 colours per row. I think you'll enjoy colour knitting once you get to it - it's like painting with wool, you see the design growing. It becomes difficult to resist: "Oh just another row!" I am thinking about your comment on audiobooks - more difficult to think critically or to remember points. I do find that I keep audiobooks for relaxing light familiar fiction - maybe you have explained why. Hmm.
How funny! I always thought the Kaffe Fassett designs were radically difficult compared to this vest! I'll have to check out the patterns. The Starmore in the video is just two colors per row, too. My big problem is that I am a tight knitter and have trouble not getting a puckering look when I change colors. Maybe I should drink a cup of chamomile tea or something before I get started...
@@HannahsBooks I found it helped to loop the carrying colour around something - can't remember what - maybe a finger - just making it a looser loop. Been so long, I can't remember. But that deliberate making the loop bigger worked.
@@heathergregg9975 Thank you! A friend of mine suggested a ring with two attached loops-and I am going to try it. It seems like it would be perfect for a picker, but I am a thrower-a tradition passed down from my great grandmother (and namesake).
@@HannahsBooks Funnily enough, I think I am a "thrower" (I have wool running through ring finger on my right hand to keep tension steady as I'm a 'loose' knitter). So if all else fails you can always try my method of putting wool around the needle AND a finger, see if that makes the strings behind to lie flat.
Ooh, thank you!
Oh I am first viewer. That's cool - I have never managed that before
It amuses me so much that people feel that way about my videos!
I am lukewarm about Dickens also. His characters are fine in the same way vaudeville comedy sketches are fine -- they provide entertainment without deep engagement. For that reason, I've preferred his shorter books. Large, long doses of Dickens like Bleak House bored me because there was nothing more to learn or understand about the characters
I agree--but I just read the comment by Kevin Russell above, and it has me wondering if it might help me appreciate his approach a bit more. (I'll let you know!)