Channel Changes & Winter Reading Plans
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- What are you reading in January?
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@geauxreadbooks
@Talking_Story
@BooksWithBenghisKahn
@bardsandbooks
@TheLibraryofAllenxandria
@readbykyle3082
@laurablakeauthor
00:00 Intro
00:52 Channel Changes
06:38 DEFINITELY
11:53 PROBABLY
14:19 MAYBE
15:11 Outro
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I too will look forward to your Five Warrior Angel discussions
Awesome, man! 250 pages in and I’m loving it so far!
Looking g forward to the talks!
Love your outlook on the channel. Less fluff, more meat. More content about what is actually in the book and less about everything but the book itself. Do what makes you happy, not what will get the most views.
Thank you!
I love book reviews!
Nice changes. I watch quite a bit of book tube, but don’t really bother watching TBR or book hauls. Your monthly wrap up is one of my favourites.
Thanks so much- I appreciate it!
It's great to re-evaluate how you're doing things every now and then. I like the thoughts for the new changes!
Thanks, Niki! :)
I don’t often comment but I want to say that I enjoy your channel!
Thank you so much!
Yay Prince!!🎉🎉🎉
Excited! 💜
Really appreciate you reflecting on your intentions with this channel, and I love the sound of the course you are going to take! I'll be here to support you along the way, no matter what!
Very exciting winter TBR! I really need to get back to Lehane, because I've only read The Drop but that left me hungering for more in the best way possible. And hope the FWA readalong will be a success, it sounds so good! Happy reading, Josh!
Thanks, Esmay! I’m excited about the changes, and think it will just allow me more time to talk about the books I love most!
So glad to see you will be reading "I, Claudius". Hope you'll like it and continue to the 2nd book, "Claudius the god", and don't forget (after you read both), to check the BBC adaptation from the 70th! If you enjoy reading about the Roman empire there is a very well regarded series, about Caesar, by the Australian author Colleen McCullough (starting with "First man in Rome") that you might want to check.
I actually didn’t know there was a sequel. If I like the first I’m sure I’ll read the second. I had First Man in Rome on the TBR for a long time so many this will cause me to move it up!
Gai-Jin was my favorite from the Asian Saga
Ooohh, great to know
I'm currently reading The Gone World (Tom Sweterltsch) and The Vanished Birds (Bethany Jacobs).
Taking the plunge with Gardens of the Moon before the end of January.
Very happy to have found this channel.
Thanks for continuing to hang out. Enjoy Gardens of the Moon - I think about that one often.
I love I Claudius. There is miniseries from the 70s I think that is a treat. It is more like theatre on TV but the cast is outstanding. I read The Twelve Ceasars by Suetonius with it as it was inspired by this classic. Highly recommend.
Good to know about the miniseries - thank you!
Another great video. As far as channel changes, Im new, but Im here for book reviews. If you're willing to share what you've read, Im more than willing to listen.
Awesome - thanks!
Even though, overall, I've had a pretty blah reading year with a slew of mediocre books, I've enjoyed your channel immensely and found the excellent John Williams thanks to your channel. Even though I couldn't make it through Taipan this year, i can't wait to dive into Shogun this new year. Keep em coming good sir.
Thanks so much- comments like this bring me joy. ☺️ I hope 2024 is a better reading year for you!
I'm glad i found your channel this year. I've discovered that I prefer to watch booktubers closer to my own age, rather than the 20 year old kids. I have a 20 year old son. Lol. I also like how you read genres other than sci-fi and fantasy. Those are my favorites, but i like other things too. Also, I'm kinda glad you're getting rid of book hauls. It's weird how much people like those. But anyway, you have a great channel, and I look forward to another year of your content
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoy the channel and that us older booktubers appeal to some viewers 😂 Happy New Year!
What fantastic reading plans! Your channel plans sound very sensible. I'll look forward to your reaction to The Forgetting Moon: that series really is the series I've been waiting to read since A Song of Ice & Fire. And DragonLance! That really takes me back! Kudos for continuing with Dresden Files: it's one of my favorite series, and I've found the payoff is tremendous.
Also, kudos on your music taste! Prince was a legend, and I don't think we'll see his like again. Cheers, and wishing you a happy reading month!
Yes, a very exciting few months of reads I hope! Happy New Year!
Looking forward to the channel changes, I think it’s a good way to go
Very excited for Durfee’s books! Reading Gai-Jin in Japan 😂
Yes, looking forward to our chats about Durfee’s books!
Might join you guys in Feb for The Blackest Heart! Excited for I Claudius and Gai-Jin! The Dresden audios are fantastic, I did 16 of the 17 and both short story collections that way!
I’m likely starting the Summer Knight audio this week - I’m very curious to get to this one.
Love the channel, it’s a must watch. I thank you, Allen & The Brothers Gwynne, for getting me into historical fiction. Specifically you with Pillars of the Earth. What a great read, one of my favorites, thank you. Now I’m going to pick up, The Given Day. Happy New Year, hope it’s a great one for you👍🏼
I’m honored to be in the company of those guys - thank you! Happy New Year!
That is a fun list of reads you have lined up there. I'm really looking forward to hear your opinions about the books.
I have read the first Five Warrior Angels book and really enjoyed it.
I also had a small fistbumb moment, when you mentioned Kender, Gully-Dwarves and Gnomes. The Dragonlance books were my first introduction to fantasy. As I'm a native German, they were also a huge reason for my sixteen-year-old self to improve my English, as only a small portion of the books had been translated back then. This was also way before Amazaon, so I needed to travel to rpg and gaming conventions always in the hope that some British booksellers would show up and I could search their stands for missing books in my Dragonlance paperback collection. I still have over 70 of them today.
As far as your channel goals go, it's always the best advice to go with what you love doing. I can really relate to what you've said about these longterm payoff videos. I'm just returning from a 6 year hiatus on booktube and my channel was active for 4 years or so during the mid-tens. And over the six inactive years, every couple of months I got random comments on some of my videos and these were always the more guide or discussion types of videos. So I can only recommend that.
I'm really looking forward to your content in 2024. Have an amazing reading year!
Glad to meet another DragonLance fan! That's really cool how it was an early foray into helping you improve your English. I read these at about the same age originally. And thanks for the channel tips - I'm excited to see where a slightly new direction takes things. Cheers!
Just found your channel last month and it's nice to meet you.
Thanks for hanging out!
Have a great trip to Japan! Can highly recommend the 70s BBC Adaptation of «I, Claudius!
Currently I am reading «Bold Ascension» (sequel to «The Severing Son») by Vaughn Roycroft (Fantasy inspired by the Migration Period Goths)
My January TBR:
«Imperium» by Robert Harris (Historical Fiction about the Roman Politician Cicero)
«Stonehenge» by Bernard Cornwell (Historical Fiction about the Creation of Stonehenge during the Late Neolithic Period)
«The Buried Giant» by Kazuo Ishigaro (Fantasy inspired by Arthurian Legend)
«After Rome» by Morgan Llywelyn (Historical Fiction set in Post-Roman Britain)
«The Dragon Lord» by David Drake (Arthurian Sword & Sorcery)
My February TBR:
«Når landet mørknar» (Approximately «When The Land Darkens») by Tore Kvæven (Historical Fiction set during the 13th Century Norse Settlement of Greenland, winner of the Norwegian Brage Prize for Best Norwegian Novel in 2018)
«The Last Light of the Sun» by Guy Gavriel Kay (Fantasy inspired by the Viking Great Heathen Army and King Alfred the Good)
«Egil Skallagrimsson» by Halvor Tjønn (Historical Fiction about the (in-)famous 10th Century Icelandic Viking Skald who became a Bloodsworn Enemy of the Norwegian Viking King Eirik Bloodaxe)
«Alv Erlingsson» by Tore Skeie (Historical Fiction about a Real Life Norwegian 13th Century Jarl who became a Privateer and Rebel)
I have not planned March too much, but on my Spring TBR I have:
«Judas Blossom» by Stephen Aryan (Fantasy inspired by the Mongol Conquest of Persia)
The «City of Victory» Trilogy by Adrian Goldsworthy (Historical Military Fiction set during Emperor Trajan’s Campaigns)
«Ash: A Secret History» by Mary Gentle (Alt-Historical Military Fiction inspired by the Mercenary Wars of the Renaissance)
«The Wise Man’s Fear» by Patrick Rothfuss (Fantasy, sequel to «Name of the Wind»)
The «Lyonesse» Trilogy by Jack Vance ((Pre-)Arthurian Fantasy)
Stonehenge is one of Cornwell’s that really stuck with me. I hope it does for you as well! A viewer sent me The Last Light of the Sun so I hope to get to that one soon too!
@@RedFuryBooks I apologize if I am pestering you with suggestions, but I would very much like to shout out my fellow islander and indie author Alex A. Saloen (linguist, former Kong Fu Teacher and multi-instrumentalist: Banjo, fiddle and flute!) and his Fantasy series «A Tide of Sacred Ice», which I would describe as a love child of Tolkien, Malazan & Narnia, which a healthy pinch of Norwegian Folk Tales! Four books are out and all are available in English!
@@MacScarfield thank you!
Like you im also dealing with a head and chest cold happy new year 🤒🎉🎊🍾🍹🥂
Happy New Year and feel better!
Josh, GrantLovesBooks just put Junichiro Tanizaki’s
The Makioka Sisters, as one of the favorite books of the year and I know you like Japanese lit. He has a dedicated review on his channel too. Maybe you can pick it up in Japan.
Thanks, Heidi!
I had Gai-Jin pencilled in for March 🤔 think I’ll just move that up 😅
That’s awesome!
Loved the update and the idea of you shifting to just the vids you're most enthusiastic about making. I'm pumped for diving into Five Warrior Angels with you soon!
And I'm excited for you trying out the Marsters audio for Summer Knight!!!
Here's to another great reading year ahead!
Happy New Year my friend!
Reading I, Claudius right now and as a roman history beginner, it’s really great. Looking forward to what you think as well and great video as always!🙌
Good to know! Thanks!
All those changes sound like good ones to me, Josh. Book Hauls and Tags are fun at times but pretty shallow, let's be honest. More videos to actually talk about the content of the books will be more rewarding for you I think. Happy New Year! Hoping for more channel growth and success for you in 2024. I'm starting 2024 by starting A Song for Arbonne 😊. Thanks for the gift.
edit: Commented too soon. You're gonna be back in Japan in February??
I hope you love A Song for Arbonne as much as I do! And yes, I’ll be back in Japan in February! I got hired to guest conduct the Tokyo international schools (KPASS) honor band! A working vacation but I was honored to have been chosen.
@@RedFuryBooks Awesome. I'm sure you're excited to visit again, this time in a professional manner. Ganbatte! (Popular Japanese expression for "Do your best/Good luck/Go kill it/etc")
@@Danny_Matson I do know Ganbatte! When I ran the race in Sendai, I heard “Ganbatte Dallas” this whole race because of my race bib!
Have you ever read Greg Bear's "Songs of Earth & Power" or as it was originally published: "The Infinity Concerto" and "The Serpent Mage"?
I recently finished the first book, The Infinity Concerto, and wow I gotta say this is a severely underrated novel, please let me know if you have or haven't read it. Definitely worth adding to your TBR just for the first half alone.
Bear has just recently come onto my radar but I haven’t read anything of him get.
@@RedFuryBooks I'd love to hear your thoughts on that novel.
I had to drop everything and start A Little Hatred .To my shock , my brother n law caught up to me in the First Law universe…not complaining as it is amazing. As soon as my library purchases the Lonesome Crown audiobook, which just got released, I will be going back to the Five Isles! Buckle up for that series.😀
Two chapters in and really liking The Forgetting Moon!
Great TBR! I like your diversity in reading. What piques my interest most is the Janny Wurts there: Sorcerer's Legacy. I've been wanting to start reading Janny Wurts since the beginning of 2023, and this looks like a very good introduction to her work. I ordered it right away, and would like to read it around the same time you are. Thanks again for your video's, and your channel plans sound awesome.
Thanks! Janny called Sorcerer’s Legacy a “youthful” work but she also mentioned on a livestream that if you read her works in publication order you can see her progression from where she started to the more dense style she employs now. I figured that’s a good plan!
This is great Josh! I wish you all the best with the changes. I’m so excited for you to try the audio for Dresden. Marsters is so perfect!
I’ve heard such great things about Marsters - looking forward to it!
Great video Josh! I’m reading the Lonesome Crown right now and am absolutely loving the Five Warrior Angels series. Hope you enjoy it as well and have a good day!
Awesome! I read about 50 pages of The Forgetting Moon yesterday and it hooked me already.
Those are some pretty good plans, Josh. Hope they go according to plan.
Only series plans I have right now is continue Liveship Traders (started Mad Ship almost immediately after Ship of Magic) and Dandelion Dynasty. I'm going to try to find more of a balance between juggling series and standalones, speaking of which I'm currently reading Boy's Life by Robert McCammon and its excellent so far.
Wishing you a wonderful 2024! Slainte 🍻
Boys Life was one of my best books of the year and you know I love Liveship! So you have some great books going right now! Happy New Year!
Hey Josh, do you have a slam dunk starting point for Dennis Lehane, for someone who’s curious about his books, but hasn’t tried him yet….?
Great video as always, and look forward to the future book reviews!
I would say Mystic River would be a good starting point for Lehane. It’s really great and is a stand alone. I hope you love it!
Funny enough, that is the one I own already. Sweet, appreciate the rec Josh!
Great!
I'm going to start reading soon the third and last book in the Powder Mage trilogy but I would love to read in January 'The Forgetting Moon' at the same time as you and those other booktubers. Am I correct to assume it doesn't matter when I read it in January just that I finish it by the end of that month ?
I don't comment often under your videos but I always enjoy watching them.
Yes, as long as you finish in January you should be good. We’ll likely schedule the discussion early February. Glad you can join us!
@@RedFuryBooks I'm looking forward to the discussion although most likely, I won't be able to follow it live cause I live in Europe so that's at least a 6 hours time difference. But I still am looking forward to the readalong !
@@Tinoshke07 that’s great! There’s a possibility that we might chat in a weekend afternoon so it might work for you. Stay tuned!