Counting the Days TAG: Books I am excited to read
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- Counting down like Wernher von Braun with a new toy rocket!
We all have books we are excited to read, but this tags gets us thinking about what and why (and only then, when).
I was tagged by @BookChatWithPat8668 and the tag was created by @ToReadersItMayConcern and @ProseAndPetticoats
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Counting the Days Tag:
1. What is a book that excites you because of its cover?
2. … because of its author?
3. … because of its premise?
4. … because of its style?
5. … because of its influence?
6. … because of its emotional weight?
7. … because of its sense of humour?
8. … because of its challenge or difficulty?
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It's a nice tag. Of course you kind of have to know something about the book to look forward to it! Some great choices.
Thanks, agree, it's usually excited for a book by an author you love..
Thank you so much for participating! I am just now discovering your channel and am glad to be here!
Marcel Proust has shown up in so many lists, including my own. He's the king of this tag for sure.
Thanks! Looks like there's a lot of us searching for lost time next year!
Ah, very enjoyable, I've really enjoyed discovering your channel. I also read a lot of fantasy (not so much SciFi) & magic realism, but I also read a lot of poetry & mythology. And, I've also just done this tag, a lot of fun - quite a lark. I look forward to following your adventures with reading.
Thanks! I look forward to seeing your tag responses!
Great responses. Really interesting choices. Roll on the year long Proust readathon 😂
Thanks Debs. So many plans, so little time…
Such a fun tag!! Loved hearing your answers and I’m hoping to film my own soon.
Thanks- I look forward to seeing the choices!
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd isn't the first Poirot, but it is one of the best and they don't need to be read in order unless you really want to. I really enjoyed Childhood’s End. Thanks for tagging me!
I look forward to your choices!
So many great books here, Gavin! I love Madame Bovary too. I liked The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and it has a bit of controversy related to it-which we can discuss after you’ve read it. There are others of hers, though, that I liked better. I’m approaching Proust with more apprehension than excitement, but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Great responses. Thanks for doing the tag! 😊
I’ll take any Christie recommendations! As you can see I’m a novice in this area..
@@GenreBooks23 I really liked And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, and What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw, which, I think, is called The 4:50 from Paddington in the UK.
@BookChatWithPat8668 thanks- we definitely have “Paddington” at home- will start there!
@@GenreBooks23 it’s a fun one. A Miss Marple novel. You definitely would appreciate Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but she does something very controversial there-controversial in the murder mystery genre-so I wouldn’t start there. 😊
Exactly! I want to read all of the books now. There are so many books to be excited about. I haven't read any Agatha Christie either. 🤣shhh, don't tell the wife you took one of her books. LOL That's funny. I don't think I've read Proust either. 🤔 Hmmm, maybe I'll add him to my wishlist if you give his writing a good review. No pressure. LOL Thank you for tagging us.
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Ha! We're going to take a year to read Proust, but I will definitely be sharing views!
@@GenreBooks23 Any suggestions on where to buy the books?
@@BookZealots there are a few different sets: I would suspect the more modern the better. There’s a Modern Library set, mines an older Penguin. Greg at AnotherBibliophileReads has ideas on his Discord channel.
@@GenreBooks23 Thank you.
If you are going to read Shaver, you should start with the Lafferty version (Continued Next Rock). The Ray Palmer biography (The Man From Mars) is also good at putting it in context.
By the by, la Recherce du Temps Purdue does not translate to remembrance of things past.
The first English translation by C.K. Scott Moncrieff was titled "Remembrance of Things Past." It wasn't meant to be a literal translation of the French. It referred to the second line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past". It was meant to describe the mood of the book.
It wasn't until English scholars started to edit this version to more accurately reflect the official French versions (in 1988 and 1992) that the title became "In Search of Lost Time, " a literal translation of the title.
When I first read Proust, it was in Moncrieff's version, the only English translation available at the time. So I am "used to" the Remembrance title and I tend to think of it that way, even now. To me it is more evocative in English than "In Search of Lost Time," however literal it may be.:)
By the way, the title in French is "À la recherche du temps perdu," not "la Recherce du Temps Purdue." Were you perhaps thinking of the university?
I’ll look up those Shaver tips, thanks! As for the Proust, we’ll have to take it up with Penguin :)
It’s the (slightly updated) Moncrieff that I’ll be tackling. Fortunately we are taking it slow, because it looks a little daunting..
@@GenreBooks23 Oh, pshaw. Something like Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake can be "daunting." But other than the fact that there are 6 volumes, I didn't find it difficult the first time I read them. What I did find helpful was to read a biography first (I did this with Joyce as well). Or at least one of those books that present "The World of...." with lots of pictures.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was my first Agatha Christie novel I read, too, but I don't think it's a Miss Marple novel. It was good but not great, which has been my opinion of every Agatha Christie novel I've read.
Quite right - just checked and it’s a Poirot :)
Hm, these are to be books you are going to read so I am not sure how to do the emotional one unless it's a reread.
Yeah, that was the only one that was a re-read for me!
For that one I picked books with dark subject matter, in that case, history books that cover particularly terrible harms.