My Future Reading Plans: Do They Involve Whale Hunting?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- My previous video from a year ago: • My Literary White Whal...
That video was made in response to this by @michaelk.vaughan8617 here: • My Literary White Whales
I believe that the theme of “literary white whales” was a thing for a span on BookTube.
My recent Mid-Year Freakout Tag: • The Mid-Year Freakout ...
That’s good advice, to focus on setting aside time rather than just trying to read faster. I’m beginning to realize that that is my biggest obstacle against reading more - not being willing to prioritize reading over other things, like watching TV or going out. Thanks for the thoughtful video.
My pleasure. Doing those other things are worthwhile too… though I’m less certain about TV. 🤔
❤️🐈 That’s too bad about Les Miserables, it’s a favorite 😊
I feel like my mental health suffers if I don’t read every day. It’s definitely a daily goal.
@@myreadinglife8816 When I consider how you tracked down or tackled that “ancient TBR” I cannot but reflect, “Here’s a woman who has it all together.” 😂
I, too, try to focus on spending time everyday on reading rather than focusing on speed.
You’ve developed a good practice.
Gah! Adoring a creature who's repeatedly attacking you, voluntarily reading Euclid - Good God, man, what's next? Eating at a place called Mom's? Starting a land war in Asia?
Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare, sir. 🙂
Wake me when you get to primes and perfect numbers; they're fun.
No snoozing allowed!
@@davidnovakreadspoetry Just resting my eyes during proofs.
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You have some very ambitious books on your shelves. I, too, have let things sit on my shelves for far too long. A very relatable video--even if the books are different. I think the time for me and Euclid will not happen in this lifetime.
Interesting to know that you have your own “whales”. 😉
Here's a trick about Vespers. I sped up my reading of it and the popes, places, and emperors whiz by like I'm on a thrilling history rollercoaster.
Oh, when you get to where seven or eight popes die in succession, that becomes an unbearably fast roller coaster. 😂
@@davidnovakreadspoetry Thanks; no cotton candy that day.
Euclid, SPQR, GIbbon, Finley all in one video, nice. I'll have to think of what my literary whales are now, thanks David
You’ve just about read everything, man. 😂
@@davidnovakreadspoetry Haha I wish. I do have some whales for things like historiography that I'd only read more for how people thought at the time or something. And there are some classics and stuff that I'd like to think I will get to someday
Other channels are planning Jane Austen July and sure she's great but they have run out of her novels and are accidently leaving Charlotte Smith in the dust. Have been vacationing in Smith's The Old Manor House and find her as nourishing as the Brontes, Austen and even George Eliot. What a strange gap in literature. Of course, you know this is your fault since you showed me her poetry. Would you consider a Gothaugust as a cover to promote our Charlotte?
How was she eclipsed? I hadn’t given a thought to her novels, but you give it high praise.
@@davidnovakreadspoetryEclipsed? It has been said in this century that Jane Austen made fun of Charlotte's novels, but also borrowed plot, character and incident from her. So that's how it's done. Jane was a b.
@@PatriciaCrabtree-wm8xd I am fascinated. I can’t express just how good I find this first of Romantic poets to be. I’ll look for her novels now.
@@davidnovakreadspoetry I promise to turn my nag knob down.
I could identify with a lot of that, being a slow reader, and wanting to read more when I started my Booktube channel. I wish you the best with your study of mathematics. I'm reading Les Misérables right now and am wondering why you set it aside. Can you explain more, or did you, in a video I missed? Was it because of the long chapters about current events in France, so long ago that none of it seems relevant to the progress of the story?
Ssh. We're blaming the translation.
@@PatriciaCrabtree-wm8xd Translation and general reading experience account for a lot, it is true.
I can’t return to it to figure out the reason - that’s how bad my reaction. 😢
@@davidnovakreadspoetry - maybe I'm just not that far into the book yet. What page were you on?
@@Eldertalk I keep saying 300pp, but upon checking I find I stopped dead at 200. I was with a group, and everyone else loved it.