Hope you get your heat back soon. I haven't read any of these books either. Thank you for the tag. This is the perfect tag for me. I've got shelves and shelves of TBR.
Hi James, I’m new to your channel and was attracted by your thumbnail. I’ve recently gone down a rabbit hole with Bob Dylan. I just saw his biopic, a complete unknown. I’m 74 so it took me back to my youth and my love of folk music. I also lived in Minnesota and hung out in the village, so the movie made me excited to read everything I could. However, this book looks too big for me at the moment. Maybe I’d listen to it on audio, even though audio isn’t my bag. Aloha from Hawaii.
Hi, Marilyn, thanks for watching. This book looks too long for me too! I thought "A Complete Unknown" was a pretty good biopic. Lots of quibbles for a dylanologist, but just fine as a movie. There''s a shorter book, that the movie was based on and it's called "Dylan Goes Electric". I've not read it, but I like some other books by the author, Elijah Wald.
I like the cap. The look suits you. Oh, books? (Btw, somebody - and it might be Randy Ray? - has a bigger biography of Proust that he is reading. Proust deserves something a little more Proustian, wouldn’t you say?) I hope your heat gets back up. 🙂
Thanks. I'm getting weird AI suggested responses to comments now. If I wanted to be completely insincere but still seem engaged with my commentors I could just click a button and it would reply, insinuating that I know Edna OBrien personally
Happy Saturday, James. "Side book" reminded me of when I heard the term "side girl" for the first time. It was at a friends home for a party at and their daughters were drawing pictures. One of them drew a woman with wild hair. I asked, "Who is that?" "She's your side girl." "What's a side girl?" "You have your girlfriend or wife, and then there's a side girl." "Oh, yes, of course." I said. They both laughed at my expense. Didn't know "side girl" is the new term for mistress which I learned from an eleven year old. Schiff's Franklin book is about his years in Paris. I remember some envoy visiting him at a spa in a barge, which apparently was frequented by gay men. I'd never come across that in any Ben Franklin biographies before.
@@JamesRuchala Franklin wasn't engaging in "male play" but he went to that spa because it was a good one. Franklin, along with maybe Aaron Burr, had less hang ups than the other founding fathers.
Hope you get your heat back soon. I haven't read any of these books either. Thank you for the tag. This is the perfect tag for me. I've got shelves and shelves of TBR.
Thanks Jenny. Give it a try-- I think you'll do a good tag
Hi James, I’m new to your channel and was attracted by your thumbnail. I’ve recently gone down a rabbit hole with Bob Dylan. I just saw his biopic, a complete unknown. I’m 74 so it took me back to my youth and my love of folk music. I also lived in Minnesota and hung out in the village, so the movie made me excited to read everything I could. However, this book looks too big for me at the moment. Maybe I’d listen to it on audio, even though audio isn’t my bag. Aloha from Hawaii.
Hi, Marilyn, thanks for watching. This book looks too long for me too! I thought "A Complete Unknown" was a pretty good biopic. Lots of quibbles for a dylanologist, but just fine as a movie. There''s a shorter book, that the movie was based on and it's called "Dylan Goes Electric". I've not read it, but I like some other books by the author, Elijah Wald.
I like the cap. The look suits you. Oh, books? (Btw, somebody - and it might be Randy Ray? - has a bigger biography of Proust that he is reading. Proust deserves something a little more Proustian, wouldn’t you say?) I hope your heat gets back up. 🙂
Thanks David. I know you are often behatted in your videos. Randy is indeed reading a giant biography of Proust. He's brave
“Edna O’Brien on James Joyce? Good god!” Okay, that made me laugh. Keep warm my friend.
Thanks. I'm getting weird AI suggested responses to comments now. If I wanted to be completely insincere but still seem engaged with my commentors I could just click a button and it would reply, insinuating that I know Edna OBrien personally
Happy Saturday, James.
"Side book" reminded me of when I heard the term "side girl" for the first time. It was at a friends home for a party at and their daughters were drawing pictures. One of them drew a woman with wild hair. I asked, "Who is that?" "She's your side girl." "What's a side girl?" "You have your girlfriend or wife, and then there's a side girl." "Oh, yes, of course." I said. They both laughed at my expense. Didn't know "side girl" is the new term for mistress which I learned from an eleven year old.
Schiff's Franklin book is about his years in Paris. I remember some envoy visiting him at a spa in a barge, which apparently was frequented by gay men. I'd never come across that in any Ben Franklin biographies before.
That's Franklin story is a new one to me, though I'm no expert. I'm promiscuous only as a reader.
@@JamesRuchala Franklin wasn't engaging in "male play" but he went to that spa because it was a good one. Franklin, along with maybe Aaron Burr, had less hang ups than the other founding fathers.
A multivolume biography of Bob Dylan? Isn't he still alive??
He is indeed still alive, but Clinton Heylin never rests.