Excellent episode. When I was little my parents had a tiny dictionary with tissue like paper. I loved the feel of the paper and used to make up stories as if the book wasn’t a dictionary but was a book of stories. I was very young but I remember it so clearly. My grandson made up stories from random books too.. before he could even talk clearly. He would babble along, turning pages with great seriousness. Swallows and Amazons is wonderful. My parents, my brother and I and my children all love those books.. all of them are keen on sailing too, I just like reading about it.
The Ultimate Book Tag: The Spaminated Edition. Now With 70% More Sodium! 1:14 No. But other people seem to get nervous when I take my hand off the wheel. So I use audiobooks for the Spamin’ Wagon. 2:13 Like both you and your lovely guest, I don’t know what the hell that’s supposed mean. If I take the approach you laid out, Dostoevsky. If I take the approach Hannah laid out, I see a lot of myself in Ray Bradbury… and Bukowski… and whoever wrote the script for Plan Nine From Outer Space. 6:08 Harry Potter. I’ve only read the first book. Years ago. Defend my answer? From what? Twilight fans? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! 8:24 Messenger bag, the only choice for a discerning gentleman. What’s in it? Well… umm… you know… the usual… stuff. The same stuff any normal rational sane person would have in a bag they keep close to them at all times… Let’s just move on. 10:09 Only if they’ve been at your mother’s house. You know who you are. 11:12 Illustrations. The hell kinda question is that? 12:14 The Road. Thanks a lot… Jerk. 14:24 I used to go to the Scholastic Book Fair and point and giggle at the Captain Underpants books. 16:58 A players press copy of Doctor Faustus. 17:55 Clarissa. I plan on using it as a blunt force instrument in future campaigns. 20:04 Yes. These world Spamination propaganda pamphlets don’t write themselves, you know. 21:49 I don’t remember ever being without books in my life. I seem to remember an early reading experience with a book called Misanthropy: Why Everyone Sucks But You. 23:52 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 26:28 Yes. I was also great at chemistry. Well. I made the most “energetic” stuff in that class anyway. That lab never smelt the same. 28:45 I would thank them for the free toilet paper. 31:35 I don’t know any. Get off my lawn. 34:47 Well I’m not a booktuber. But I do have an answer… that I don’t think your mother would want me to talk about. You know who you. 37:52 Funk. It’s only one letter away from my second favorite word. 38:54 I am none of those things. I have a mustache, damn it. 39:41 Vampires. Fairies are gay. 40:53 Spirits. Bourbon is yummy. 41:35 Vampires. Zombies are more overplayed than Lynyrd Skynyrd at a trailer park party. 42:31 Forbidden love. Your mother feels the same way. You know who you are. 43:16 Both. Because that’s exactly what life is like for the world’s great semi-supervillain!
I don’t get car sick when I am reading in a car with someone like my folks. I have read on an airplane, on a cruise ship. I love both the Twilight saga and the Harry Potter books. I read all of the Harry Potter books. I have a huge Twilight collection. I carry multiple books in my book bag. Your guest mentioned reading out loud and I can’t imagine reading out loud to anyone.
Love audiobooks in the car. I get carsickness. I don’t feel the same on the train or airplanes. My daughter would ‘read’ Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr & Eric Carle. She’d recite and turn the pages at the right times. As she got older, her favorites for me to read to her were Dr. Seuss, especially The Lorax. I think she was trying to torment me.
I believe one reason people dont read now-a-days is, that there are so many aternatives . From the very start, When you are not being read to as a kid, your imagination does not get developed, although all those films should help you with the picturing in your head. For proper reading you have to actively make the internal film role and that may be an effort, although the greatest threshold will probably be the fluency in reading. When I grew up, there were but one channel on a black&white TV and few children series (Fury comes to my mind and some few puppet shows from an famous (in Germany) puppet company (die Augsburger Puppenkiste). Books were the go to for any entertainement at home.
I get badly car sick when I try to read in the car, whether it's a physical book or something digital. No problem reading on planes though, usually fine on trains when I read in my phone. Haven't tried a boat recently enough to say.
It’s wonderful to see Hannah back at Hyde Cottage. I can’t read in the car. Carlos Ruiz Zafon is a unique voice for me. But how much of that is translation?
Delighted to see you all together! Surprised that y'all got through the question of a beloved author with a distinctive voice without mentioning Virginia Woolf. (I wonder if any reader named their hound "Virginia Woolf" for the wordplay?)
Excellent episode. When I was little my parents had a tiny dictionary with tissue like paper. I loved the feel of the paper and used to make up stories as if the book wasn’t a dictionary but was a book of stories. I was very young but I remember it so clearly. My grandson made up stories from random books too.. before he could even talk clearly. He would babble along, turning pages with great seriousness. Swallows and Amazons is wonderful. My parents, my brother and I and my children all love those books.. all of them are keen on sailing too, I just like reading about it.
Oh smelling books is a must.... beats Kindle any day!
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Just seeing the thumbnail warms my heart!
Hi Hannah and Steve! So nice to see you together!
Unconventional for me would be Virginia Woolf. I just read Mrs Dalloway and was completely baffled.
Gina - I wrote my comment before spotting yours.
Great to have the three of you on Steve's couch!!!
Looking forward to many more book tags and bookish conversations with the three of you!😊
The Ultimate Book Tag: The Spaminated Edition.
Now With 70% More Sodium!
1:14 No. But other people seem to get nervous when I take my hand off the wheel. So I use audiobooks for the Spamin’ Wagon.
2:13 Like both you and your lovely guest, I don’t know what the hell that’s supposed mean. If I take the approach you laid out, Dostoevsky. If I take the approach Hannah laid out, I see a lot of myself in Ray Bradbury… and Bukowski… and whoever wrote the script for Plan Nine From Outer Space.
6:08 Harry Potter. I’ve only read the first book. Years ago. Defend my answer? From what? Twilight fans? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
8:24 Messenger bag, the only choice for a discerning gentleman. What’s in it? Well… umm… you know… the usual… stuff. The same stuff any normal rational sane person would have in a bag they keep close to them at all times… Let’s just move on.
10:09 Only if they’ve been at your mother’s house. You know who you are.
11:12 Illustrations. The hell kinda question is that?
12:14 The Road. Thanks a lot… Jerk.
14:24 I used to go to the Scholastic Book Fair and point and giggle at the Captain Underpants books.
16:58 A players press copy of Doctor Faustus.
17:55 Clarissa. I plan on using it as a blunt force instrument in future campaigns.
20:04 Yes. These world Spamination propaganda pamphlets don’t write themselves, you know.
21:49 I don’t remember ever being without books in my life. I seem to remember an early reading experience with a book called Misanthropy: Why Everyone Sucks But You.
23:52 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
26:28 Yes. I was also great at chemistry. Well. I made the most “energetic” stuff in that class anyway. That lab never smelt the same.
28:45 I would thank them for the free toilet paper.
31:35 I don’t know any. Get off my lawn.
34:47 Well I’m not a booktuber. But I do have an answer… that I don’t think your mother would want me to talk about. You know who you.
37:52 Funk. It’s only one letter away from my second favorite word.
38:54 I am none of those things. I have a mustache, damn it.
39:41 Vampires. Fairies are gay.
40:53 Spirits. Bourbon is yummy.
41:35 Vampires. Zombies are more overplayed than Lynyrd Skynyrd at a trailer park party.
42:31 Forbidden love. Your mother feels the same way. You know who you are.
43:16 Both. Because that’s exactly what life is like for the world’s great semi-supervillain!
I don’t get car sick when I am reading in a car with someone like my folks. I have read on an airplane, on a cruise ship. I love both the Twilight saga and the Harry Potter books. I read all of the Harry Potter books. I have a huge Twilight collection. I carry multiple books in my book bag. Your guest mentioned reading out loud and I can’t imagine reading out loud to anyone.
Rushdie seems to have a singular style, I think. When you're reading Rushdie you know you're reading Rushdie.
Love audiobooks in the car. I get carsickness. I don’t feel the same on the train or airplanes. My daughter would ‘read’ Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr & Eric Carle. She’d recite and turn the pages at the right times. As she got older, her favorites for me to read to her were Dr. Seuss, especially The Lorax. I think she was trying to torment me.
I believe one reason people dont read now-a-days is, that there are so many aternatives . From the very start, When you are not being read to as a kid, your imagination does not get developed, although all those films should help you with the picturing in your head. For proper reading you have to actively make the internal film role and that may be an effort, although the greatest threshold will probably be the fluency in reading. When I grew up, there were but one channel on a black&white TV and few children series (Fury comes to my mind and some few puppet shows from an famous (in Germany) puppet company (die Augsburger Puppenkiste). Books were the go to for any entertainement at home.
I get badly car sick when I try to read in the car, whether it's a physical book or something digital. No problem reading on planes though, usually fine on trains when I read in my phone. Haven't tried a boat recently enough to say.
Nice to see you both 🐕🌷🌿🌞
Bout time you met a nice young lady and settled down.
You sound so excited about those action recs!
Perhaps a return of the NYT book review chat? That was fun.
Motion sickness here too. Audiobooks to the rescue. And I noticed that wearing earpods helps too.
Twilight is good for older people then, loss of memory and all.
Perfect
It’s wonderful to see Hannah back at Hyde Cottage.
I can’t read in the car.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon is a unique voice for me. But how much of that is translation?
I don't like to read in the car but usually trains are fine and I have never had any problems on planes.
Looks like a wonderful evening, but the Bean needs equal time.
Yeah. Audiobooks don't cause motion sickness. It's all about the interaction of vision with movement.
Delightful! 👏🏻
Delighted to see you all together! Surprised that y'all got through the question of a beloved author with a distinctive voice without mentioning Virginia Woolf. (I wonder if any reader named their hound "Virginia Woolf" for the wordplay?)
I suffered travel sickness as a child, cars and buses were bad for reading but trains were okay.
I’m reading Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne currently and it is the most unique writing that I’ve ever encountered
This looks like so much fun, I think I’ll make it about me.
You know what, this tag looks like fun.
Melancholy maybe the Smashing Pumpkins word? Or Saturnine.
I think I’ll make it about me by answering all the questions in the comments! Bwahaha!