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That's really disturbing. I don't blame him for quiting.

Hi Tahlia, I watched your phenominal woman tag yesterday, was leaving a message and lost internet. And was too frustrated to start again. I'll leave a message today.

Hi, hello~ That got my attention. What an exciting adventure to visit the bridge. I hope you both have a wonderful time in NY and hooray for joining in on the readalong. Is this your first McCullough book? I look forward to the videos of your visit. (please have Holt_arr take video). LOL They're my vicarious vacations. I went on a week or so long virtual England vacation when you all got back and shared your videos. I stayed at the poshest places and had afternoon tea, etc. 😁 (and only had to pay wifi).

Peter, you are so sweet. thank you for the kind compliment. How are you? How are things in your area? I love that you have the book club going. What a wonderful accomplishment! 📚🤗

@@BookZealots Things are going on well. Thank you so much. And yes, I founded a book club in my city and we've been growing and thriving. We will be having our 5th edition this month of September

@@P.EnglishLiterature That is wonderful. Time sure does seem to be going quickly. I haven't watched August yet, but I'll be able to this weekend. 😘

a school uniform? What kind of schoo uniforms do you have in your country? LOL 🤣

I'm with you, but I didn't put too much thought into it. Chicago is a hot mess, as it ebbs and flows in their high murder rates. I thought Aurora was more of a suburb? I haven't been to Aurora. If they are "twin cities," I'll never go there. 😬

I like action packed movies and books, so if a book is like that, I'll usually like it. And it's Christian, so it's sans cussing. I'm hoping the rest of the series (four books total) are even better. I've only read one Sowell book, but I have a few others on my wishlist/tbr. You're right, it was a decent reading month. How are you doing?

@@BookZealots I doing well, just very busy. I was on an extended business trip in July & early August, and I'm still trying to get caught up on yard & house work.

@@HeyYallListenUp I'm very happy to hear you're doing well. And I completely understand about the yard work catch up. LOL Much success in that endeavor. 🥀🌼🌼🌻🌻🌸🌸🌹

Hi, hello~ Thank you and thank you for the puppy emoji's. =) I was getting bummed about the books and I laughed so many times at the author's snarkiness that it made a really hard topic to read about much better. Still serious and he has concerns. Stop crying wolf. I saw your video. It was awesome~! I really liked the calendar. How did you do that?

I forgot to put a disclaimer in the video, (it's in the description box, but I know a lot of people don't read the information in the box); there is a bit of hard core cursing because of the crimes. If I go to reference it in the next couple of months I might keep it. But I don't think I'll re-read it. I looked up prices and his new book price has decreased. I'll see if I can get more of his books at the end of the year. =) I hope you enjoy his topics.

@@BookZealots That book and one other of his are free to subscribers on Audible.

So far, I haven't come across a bad McCullough book. He wrote so amazingly well. But I understand inserting books into the plans don't always work. 📚📚📚📚📚😁

Hi, hello, that's interesting you were listening to a podcast (edited, because I put audiobook in the first comment), about father/son combos on old bridge buildings. I am not sure if it was so much nepostism as the sons were apprenticed and in the company. 🤷‍♀️❓ The father John R was an immigrant and he was an entrepreneur, creating his companies; engineering and a manufacturing of the suspension twisted wire cables. His son was part of the company, but he had also been in the civil war as a civil engineer. Based on the very small information I have it doesn't sound like nepotism. I'm sure if that was the case McCullough will reveal it. 😁 Hope your week is going well. btw, you and my son have encouraged me to get back to working out and I walked with 25 pounds yesterday. My son is doing 50 pounds. I'll get there. =) So thank you for sharing your hiking videos. =)

Glad to be of encouragement! 25lbs though lol that would put me on the couch for a whole week! And I suppose nepotism was the wrong word but yeah they were just having a go with some obscure trivia. The podcast was a lot funnier than I was. It was a whole episode around London Bridge and its many different versions over the years. One of the previous London bridges was rebuilt in Lake Havasu City, Arizona!

@@holt_arr LOL I only did 10 minutes. It wasn't that impressive. I'm considering getting a German Shepherd for a guard dog, and I know they're hyper-engergetic, so I need to get myself in good shape. I think you're on the right track with nepotism. I mean, we just saw it a certain man's son who got a job with a foreign company when he had zero experience. Wow, that is really interesting about one of the London briges's being rebuilt, rebuilt?! in Lake Havasu, AZ. My parents and brother used to vacation there. What was the reason for that? That seems crazy to have a bridge rebuilt in another country.

Yes, for Victober. I just recorded my rambling way of how I choose a tbr and I realized I needed to pull the book so I know where it's at for next month. =) Are you state side now?

🤣 LOL Good point James! And thank you James. We don't talk girly stuff on this channel. We talk books! I told my son about your rice and red beans and he agreed it sounded delicious. =) I hope you're enjoying a good book and have the temps dropped in your neck of the woods?

​@@BookZealots It has been so humid but the forecast for the rest of the week says Low humidity and high of only 79 one day! Yay!

@@Littlebiglibrary our temps went from the high 90's to the 70's. Today is supposed to be warmer, but the evenings have been in the high 50's. ugh, the humidity. I hope it breaks for you.

I'm glad you can relate to the books yelling. Some people don't understand that. It's the moment you're reading a book, and you think of another book and look over and the guilt trip starts, "I've been on your shelf so much longer than that awful book you're reading right now. Why are you reading THAT?! You should be reading me." Thank you for having the discord server and hosting the readingalong. I just started Crime and Punishment last night and only read ch 1 of part 1 before going to bed, but had to tell my son about it and what I think is happening. 😬

🤔Oh my hair🤦‍♀️ It's been awhile since I've tried curling it and I tried to make it a style of that time period of the late 1800's. LOL Thank you for the compliment. I immediately put it up and out of my face for the next video. 🤣 Ooh! The entire story and the design of this bridge sounds amazing. I think I'll probably go down the google maps rabbit hole as well. 🤗

Yes! I'm in agreement about the book, the way McCullough wrote it and made it interesting and makes the reader care. It's not a book I was in a big hurry to pick up, but with the readalong it seemed easier to consume. And also YES! on the Boston Molasses flood. I know about that because of the Mythbusters show. My son liked their science and since we home educated a lot of it was educational in an interesting way, because they had to find what worked and what didn't work. They did a molasses swim experiment. Wow, that really surprises me that your parents lived in that area of Boston and hadn't heard about it. I'm going to look up the book Dark Tide now. Thank you for sharing.

Hooray for reading along. Participation is desired, but not mandatory. 😁 I appreciate your comment.

LOL Thank you. I was trying to make it time period of the Great Bridge. I realized I don't know how to curl my hair. The book really does sound intriguing. Hopefully McCullough delivers. Thank you for commenting. 🤗

aggghhhhh, waiting for books to arrive is torture! I'm waiting for one and I ordered it the beginning of August or about then and it was on backorder. It's a stinking classic! Why is it on backorder? Oh no. Nothing to read after your current book? Oh no. Okay, no need to panick. But you pick popular books and there's always a hold and a waiting torture period. Let me know how it goes and if you need help finding a book. LOL Open a P.O. Box and I'll send you books. 🤣📚

Oh good. I was wondering if a lot of readers feel this. I know readers will choose a book, start reading it, but then feel pulled to read another book instead. And Prometheus was going to do French accent for Lafayette and I was going to dress up and have a discussion with the book, but I choose to put it in the pile, so we didn't go to all that effort. LOL which books do you feel are yelling at you?

@@BookZealots about 150 of them 😅 I have way too many unread books.

@@CandlewickLibrary I prefer my library to be unread. Especially since I'm not a big re-reader. I have approx 600 unread books. Depending on which spreadsheet I'm looking at. I need to do a physical count in Dec/Jan. Some of the books I read I will give to Prometheus, (like the history books), but I unhaul books and forget to remove them from the spreadsheets, so they're all out of whack. I know a lot of people feel overwhelmed with having a lot of unread books, but that's the entire point of my library. 📚📚🤗

@@BookZealots that’s a good point. I do re-read, so maybe that’s why. I think I also feel guilt for some reason when I buy something and then don’t get around to it. I need to think more like you!

Yeah, that sounds like a bad time to read a dark book. There's only one book that gave me a dream and it was a war book and I had a dream of war. I'm hoping to get to Wives and Daughters this year/winter.

Some are more rude than others, but I guess if they've been waiting for 2 decades or so to be read, I can't really blame them. 📚📚🤗🤣

@@BookZealots oh yeah that's a long time... That's almost book abuse. 😂

@@FacelessBookReviews 😟Oh no! Don't turn me in. I'm getting to them. I promise.

@@BookZealots 😂

I think some of what Dostoevsky wrote is depressing, but also thought provoking? So maybe your friends consider you very intellectual? Ah Pickwick Papers. I started it this year and didn't continue with it. I need to get back to it. Maybe I can finish it this winter. Thirty books in 30 days?! 😲 That always amazes me. I don't think I could do it. Thank you for dropping in. I appreciate you sharing what you're reading. 🤗📚

@@BookZealots We homeschool, so I will be reading some middle grade books, which I don't often count in my reading, but are considered within the scope of the challenge, so I am counting them this month. It feels like I'm cheating.

@@Fernie4243 Hooray for home educating! It's the best! Even still, with life and children, reading a book a day is impressive.

I'm getting "warned" about ramblings/rants. But I've heard the same about Tolstoy and Hugo. =) I'm looking forward to a new (to me) author challenge.

@BookZealots I don't know, some people say that but I don't ever really notice it. Maybe I just find it too interesting to mind.

Thank you. I'm considering turning my formal dining room into another library. LOL The den library is too dark for me. Happy reading.

I plan on doing an intro video for The Great Bridge, but summer and fall are busy times on the far. Do you have some sausage for the red beans and rice dish? We like New Orleans sausage, but didn't buy any because the price went up and it's not terribly healthy.

​​@@BookZealots Yes. I add sweet onion and a Cajun sausage. I actually use a prepackaged R&B mixi. You had water and sausage. I always add a can of dark red kidney beans and onions and then sausage. Delicious!

@@Littlebiglibrary My son would love that. I'm sending him over. LOL 😁😋

Ah! Okay. Thank you for letting me know about the exercises and the 'eureka' moments connected to that. I think I will start it this month then and ruminate on the book's content. Powers, Faith, and Fantasy is reminding me of White Gold by Giles Milton, and I am not a big fan of re-reading books so I'm struggling to get passed the part I am already aware of. I'll push past it and I'm sure it will be amazing. I like the writing and if I hadn't read White Gold the book would be intriguing. Thank you for dropping in and helping me with the Godel book. 👍

Thank you. Every reader should have a lovely library room that makes them happy. 🤗📚 Thank you for dropping in. It's lovely to see you again. 💗

I'm grateful for the built-in bookcases. the man we bought the house from was a doctor and it was his den. I do miss having white bookcases though. I had a formal living room in my old house and turned that into a library. It was light and cheerful. LOL Poor books. I'll get to them.

Thank you Jim. I've heard Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and ...hmmm, there was one other author who tend to, Oh! Hugo, tend to go off on ramblings or rants in the stories and I've been informed. LOL I've already read one of the new books, (not a civil war book) and it was very good.

Thank you Amy. I'm thinking the Professor and the Madman might get read this year. And I started the intro to 42 Fallacies, maybe I can finish it this weekend. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.

LOL Yes! Thank you for taking the credit. I appreciate that. some of the new books have skipped the tbr line.

I'm not at all surprised youtube shadowbanned my comment. They are acting like brownshirts. It's so ridiculous. they've actually deleted my responsed to comments from my own channel. Nothing political, just talking books. smh Did Perestroika in Paris get better? I think it matters where the gov public institution is located, because some librarians do a really good job keeping the content clean/age appropriate for the students. But if you have someone pushing the agenda as the librarian, then yes, the students should be homeschooled or put in a Christian private school. I tried to have a conversation about The Satanic Verses being banned because Muslims aren't allowed to read that, but if it's available at school that's a problem. No one talked about it. I guess that's better than them talking out their rear. =/ The sex books are absolutely vile. Even TV even safe. We just need to go back to the vile activities of the olympics. 😬 Families were watching it. Gotta keep the kids in the proverbial greenhouse before they're prepared for the transplant. But I can say, even the people pushing these vile agendas need their "safe spaces" because they're mentally unhinged and/or on a lot are on recreational or prescribed pharmaceuticals and lack cognitive thinking skills. But back to books. some of the new books have skipped the tbr and one I'm focusing on now is really good! I'll have to buy more of the author's books or request the library to buy his books. =)

@@BookZealots Yes, Perestroika in Paris is okay. I'm nearly halfway through it now. It contains a talking horse, talking dog, a crow and some ducks, and a little boy with a blind grandma. Nicely written.

watchu talkin' 'bout Willis? Sorry, I couldn't decode the message of the three men's names. Authors you recommend? If so, could you give the titles?

That's what I was planning on doing, piecemeal the book set, but when I found it at a decent price for all three, I just threw up my hands and said, I'm buying it!. LOL I hope you're able to find the one you're missing.

@@BookZealots I would have bought it too. The third one is the one I need.

Helllooooo! Thank you for dropping in and leaving a comment. I hope you're having a lovely weekend. 💗

LOL Pennsylvania?! We've never even been there. Never even to an airport. Oh that is so funny. Thank you for sharing that. Today we were in the car meeting family in another town and I shared your night video and the flashlight story. 👍😁

​@@BookZealots I don't know where Pennsylvania came from? I guess I just pulled it out of thin air. That's why I supposedly write info down so I won't make mistakes. If the Police ever arrest me for falsely using a Blue Light then ask where I live I will probably say Pennsylvania!

@@Littlebiglibrary LOL You need to write a book. The things you come up with are so entertaining.

ew, that's creepy. Thank you for the possible warning. Linda let me know there's lots of violence in Parable of the Sower, so I'm going into it with some trepidation. =/

This was absolutely one of the best library basement sales we've experienced. 📚📚📚📚😁and I'm so happy we went. Yes, on the buddy read for 1812 for next year. 👍👍

@@BookZealots A good library sale is an amazing experience! Yay about the buddy read! I'll write that down for next year's tbr list! God Bless...

@@tahlia__nerds_out Thank you Tahlia. I just added it to my 2025 tbr list too. May God bless you and your family as well.

Hi Cheryl, I've flipped through the two books I have and they look really thought provoking. I think they'll be read a little, chew on it, then continue on, versus just reading straight through. This will be great. It's been a long time since I've come across books like this.

Oh yes! Titles. I hadn't thought about that. I'm more careful now with titles than I used to be. Crucible of Command has a publication of 2014 for my hardcover edition. I haven't even started Lafayette, yet. I have read a couple of other books though.