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@@carolinebrown8186 thank you! I will be picking this up and reading it!

It's good to know that they like peanut butter. I saw pictures in my bird books of them walking head first up and down a tree; it's pretty cool.

I've been more concerned about translations of late, ever since I heard that a lot of Jules Verne's works have suffered from poor translations for *years*. I don't know if Dumas has suffered from the same fate, but it makes you think, doesn't it? Also, interestingly, I found out that the series of books that have to do with The Three Musketeers are called the D'Artagnan Romances. So there's that random bit of information for the day. Ooh, a Clara Barton and a Florence Nightingale readalong would be fun. I've learned that I need to plan these things out, or they simply don't happen. I get distracted by the new shiny book otherwise. I'm on page 248 for The Great Bridge and, while I might not have picked to read it if not for the readalong, I think that it is starting to heat up a little bit. I've been distracted by classics of late, though, so I need to re-direct back to The Great Bridge (although the next McCullough won't be started until January, so I have time). I look forward to our first McCullough biography, which will be in March, and which will be on Theodore Roosevelt.

Thanks! You too! Oh, I saw that you tagged me in a booktag video, btw. I'm very behind on videos, but I look forward to watching it. I always seem to find books that I forgot about on my shelves when I end up creating a booktag video after I'm tagged.

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“The Great Bridge” is coming easier now that the focus has shifted to Washington Roebling. I need to restart Robert K. Massie’s Catherine the Great at some point, and finish it. It’s been so long at this point, that it would make more sense to start fresh than to continue where I left off. I’m glad that you’re enjoying it so much (even if Peter the Great was rough). .

I think that our hummingbirds left about a week or so ago. We kept the feeder up just in case the woodpecker or chickadee got tempted again, but I think that we've finally taken it down until next year. Rude of them all to disappear like that! 😆

Several days after ours disappeared, a lone hummer showed up at one of the feeders one evening, and was there again early the next morning. We noticed he didn’t hover at all as he ate, but rather remained perched. We felt like he(she?) was a straggler running behind schedule on migrating, and perhaps was tired and needed a night of rest before moving on southward. This is the reason I keep my feeders up at least a couple of weeks after the last sighting, for any possible stragglers needing a bite and respite.

I am soooo behind on answering comments. I got hit with food poisoning twice and then migraines on & off all week. So all my best laid plans to get caught up here fell by the wayside. I think I might have discussed that "Meg, Joe, Beth, and Amy" was coming in, plus I had picked up a special annotated version of "Little Women" fairly recently. I'm not sure where I put the art book (I have a habit of stacking my books on my shelves to make up for space issues), so I don't know how old the book is. I'll probably end up googling the images like you said in order to see the original versions as they were meant to be seen... in color. Thanks; I'm not shocked that I got Dumas wrong. I have a tendency to just assume a Spanish pronunciation. My sister can be hard to find books for, but it makes it a kind of fun challenge to discover or rediscover older books meant for kids/teens, especially if they end up being ones I remember reading as a kid. Yay for accidental re-reads. I enjoy rereading books; I find that I get so much more out of them in subsequent readings. Thanks for not giving up on the channel in spite of the prolonged absence!

@@tahlia__nerds_out I'm sorry to hear you suffered through two food poisonings. ugh. Once is once too many. I hope you're doing much better. No worries on the responses. Real life should always take priority over virtual, but don't get food poisoning anymore. I'm curious. Was it the same food or separate food items?

Thank you! I don't know about you, but I have too bad of a case of "ooh, shiny" to stick to just one book at a time...

That's the series with Emily of New Moon, right? I think I might have read at least part of Emily of New Moon a very long time ago.

@@tahlia__nerds_out Yes it is.

You're basically on the homestretch! I've never made it that far, so I'm interested in how those later books are. Where I'm out in the series, I can't picture Anne as being old enough to be the mother of a growing family. She's just not there yet; she's still newly engaged, and quite young. Right now the books have kind of been coming one right after another within the story itself, but I'm assuming that there must be a pretty big time jump at some point, at or around Rainbow Valley and/or Rilla of Ingleside. Enjoy the next two in the series, and definitely continue enjoying them rather than speeding through them! Anne books just feel like they should experienced, savored... matching the books' own relaxing pace.

Oh, and thanks for the tag!

Hi, Vinod! 🙋🏻‍♀️

Thanks; yeah, I got informed by family of my slip of tongue after they watched the video. The funny thing is that I actually prefer Laurel and Hardy to Abbot and Costello. Not quite sure why my tongue slipped there. Good catch! My Dad was wondering if anyone would pick up on the fact that I misnamed Stan and Ollie!

@@tahlia__nerds_out I often make similar slips in my own videos....

thanks; I love exploring so many different areas of art history!

Sometimes, arguing with the author in the notes can be part of the fun! 😁 I don't know if it is different for each state, but, in my state, an active RN license costs $140 every two years to renew, or an inactive license (which I switched over to last renewal) costs $70 to renew every two years. I stopped working as a nurse in early 2000 (before about a month or so before lockdown), so I've been out of the field for 4 years. There's a point where it's just throwing money away because I know that I can't go back, and eventually I will have been out of the field so long that I won't be up-to-date. $70 is an expensive price to pay just so that I can say I have a nursing license still. There's a point where I'm going to have to face reality and hang up the stethoscope. MS is rough. I hope that this year hasn't been too rough on your husband. It can be difficult to watch a family member suffer when you know that this is now their way of life; it's an adjustment for everybody, and it's never going to be an easy thing to deal with, even once everyone gets used to the new normal. Thanks; my Mom made the afghan; we have a bunch of them strewn all over the house, since everyone but Dad knits or crochets. We are never lacking for some sort of blanket to cuddle up in. I've slowed down a bit on "The Great Bridge" because I have a couple of books that I want to finish by the end of the month. But, like you said, we have two months to read "The Great Bridge", so I'm not too worried about it. David McCullough is an easy read. I look forward to seeing your answers to this tag whenever you can get to it. God Bless...

@@tahlia__nerds_out It has been my experience that nurses are better than the doctors. I've only once had a nurse who I didn't care for. I was too sick to complain and I just cried. God bless the lady in the bed next to me. She called a nurse for me. Thankfully it was a different nurse that responded. The cost isn't as high as I thought it would be, but it is money that can be utilized for something else. It hasn't been too much of an adjustment for my husband. both his parents had MS. He knew what to expect. He gets a lot of help in public when he's out by himeself. I have to slow myself down around him, but other than that he's treated like he was before MS. OH! Sugar affects him badly. He occasionaly has an iced coffee and he crashes bad. He always warns me that he might become a jerk. LOL We've been marred 27 years if he's being a jerk I'll tell him. 🤣 I think question 3 for this tag will be the hardest to answer. I'll write the propts down and talk to Prometheus about them. I like these more challenging tags. Thank you for tagging us. editing, I was looking at the wrong prompts. Prometheus and I have actually done the Smart tag.

Do you find that you annotate more when you read fiction or nonfiction?

Thank you! I look forward to exploring the Ross King books and "How to Read Medieval Art"... there are so many great art books out there! I enjoyed how "The Collector of Lives" talked a bit about how art functioned to tell Bible stories for the illiterate... I might have also read that in "Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling"; I read those books back to back. I know that there are things that the average person is probably missing of what an author was trying to convey, simply because the modern person who is casually viewing art doesn't know of the language of art during that era. I'm glad to have found several other booktubers who enjoy reading about art/art history through Framed in September... which means that I will probably have to start putting aside money for future book splurges! Now I'll have to see if I'm missing any Ross King books...

I thought so. I absolutely had bought the error in the book, knowing that there was a large issue with anti-Catholicism back then. So I thought that maybe the need for Catholics to have sacramental wine might not have been honored. And I really didn't know anything about sacramental wine when it comes to Judaism. So it was a really cool rabbit hole to fall down. My Mom says that she watched the video a couple times just for the pleasure of hearing me say that she was right and I was wrong, lol.

And I liked that quote about waiting for a doctor, too!

I was so surprised that I had never heard of him either! It's a shame that he is not better known, because he was such an interesting man who was influential during his own lifetime. Thanks for putting on this Big Book Summer challenge! I will definitely be joining in next year... I think that one of my McCullough books lines up nicely with it (I'm pretty sure that it is his largest book, "Truman"), which will be perfect.

I'm so glad that you enjoyed the art tour! Isn't it nice to have your own art gallery? What mediums of art do each of you favor?

@@tahlia__nerds_out Laurie mostly works with acrylic on canvas or board. And me: soft pastel on paper, linoprints, and needlework.

Thanks; I'm glad that you enjoyed the art tour! I definitely look forward to learning more about Mary Cassatt's work; I don't know nearly enough about female artists, and I look forward to rectifying that.

I love this mindset. Thanks.❤️

I've actually never have seen the Anne of Green Gables series. When my Mom complained about them combining the characters of Mrs. Barry and Rachel Lynde, I was never tempted to watch the show. I've heard that the main actress was a good Anne, though. I'm happy that I've given "Anne of Avonlea" another chance. Once Mom finishes "Northanger Abbey", I'm going to start "Anne of the Island" and she's going to start "Sense and Sensibility". The only Austen book I won't be able to talk her into is "Emma", because Emma frustrated her so much the one time she tried to read that book (which is why she's been so dead set against reading Austen for so many years). I'm delighted to report that she is very much enjoying "Northanger Abbey". I look forward to hearing your answers to this book tag, whenever that video happens to come. I had to think about this one a bit myself. I think I owe you responses on other videos, so I'll check in on those later. I want to get some reading done in the meantime. I've watching some booktube and responding to comments on my videos, so now I need to pick up "The Great Bridge"... even if you *did* give spoilers in your intro video on it. 😝

@@tahlia__nerds_out LOL Sorry about the spoiler. I wanted to entice people to pick up the book. Most people don't want to read a book about a bridge. I really hope your mom gets a lot of joy from Northanger Abbey. I'm not familiar enough with Anne of Green Gables to recognize the series merged two characters. Have you read Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy? I thought it was well done. What did your mom not like about Emma?

I was not sure how I felt about reading a book about a bridge initially either, so the "spoiler" makes sense. 😄 I have not read Marilla of Green Gables. I only recently have heard of it, and I tend to be very hesitant about other authors writing characters they did not originate. It's very easy for character voice to get lost in translation, and I am very picky about that. I read a book a year or so ago that used Mrs. Bates, Miss Bates, and Jane Fairfax's mother as the main characters, back before Emma's father was even married. I couldn't stand it. Among other issues I had with characterization, the character voice for characters already known just sounded off... the author created pale shadows of the characters from the original book, while simultaneously allowing for absolutely no character growth. They felt like they were basically the same, but supposedly younger, and were not nearly as well drawn. I know that I am a harsh critic when it comes to consistent and believable character voice, though, and so I rarely read books where an author is repurposing a pre-existing character. I can read fanfiction for free online. That being said, I have found the rare rewriting of pre-existing characters that I enjoy, although most of those books exist in sci-fi franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek. I am still pretty picky about character voice there as well, which is why I have some authors I definitely like better than others in those franchises. I enjoyed one author's handling of Darcy and Lizzie (she managed to emulate some of Austen's humor), but I stopped reading the series because I wasn't enjoying the mystical aspect the author pulled in. Which is a shame, because she was doing some interesting things with how she was connecting the books to each other. Speaking of Emma, I think Mom's biggest issue with Emma is that the titular character frustrates her so much. I'd like to think that she would come around to Emma by the time we reach that point in Austen's books, but I will still be very happy if she reads all of other Austen's works, even if she still refuses to give Emma another chance. She's stubborn (it's a family trait...) Now that I've completely rained on your parade (sorry), did you enjoy Marillla of Green Gables? I'm guessing it's about a young Marilla Cuthbert?

@@tahlia__nerds_out I have no skin in the game. I'm not a big fan of Anne of Green Gables. I liked it well enough, but because of the underage drinking and the sorcery of reading tea leaves it's not a keeper. I am also a harsh critic. I throw books. I've ripped a book on a video. I'd say that's pretty harsh. But I would say, I liked Marilla, (yes, Cuthbert), more than Anne of Green Gables. I felt the way the author was spot on and it shouldn't be exactly like Marilla of Anne, because she was younger. It's a sad story, but I really liked it. I didn't expect to, because like I said, I am not a big fan of Anne. (I did like the tv series though) and laughed everytime Gilbert said "sorry." Anyway, I don't like Austen's retellings, the modern author's never get it right and always add feminism into the story. I know what your mom means about Emma. I disliked Mr. Knightley more though. In modern times he comes off as extremely creepy. A word "gr" oooooo-mer, that gets flagged on this platform. The age difference didn't age well. At some point in the future I want to reread all of her books.

Thanks! Yeah, I was startled, but thought it was pretty cool to get an unexpected signed copy.

You're welcome! I'm so surprised that no one else has talked about Rose in Bloom on BookTube! It's a shame; it is such a good read. I (heretically) prefer it to Little Women, although, of course, Little Women is also very good.

Happy belated birthday and booktube anniversary! I look forward to watching your video with this tag... sounds like you have good taste in books! It's so interesting that you found an article that stated that reading Jane Austen helped with depression; I can see that... it is a way to escape into a different world for a while, with clever language and sly humor. I'm so glad that this tag has introduced me to your channel as well!

There are quite a few "Little Women" movie adaptations. I think that there have been at least two in recent memory: one set in more modern times, and then one after that which seems to be set in the same era as the book. I didn't know that there was a 1978 miniseries! I wonder if there have been any film adaptations of "Little Men"; I've personally never heard of any. I also personally haven't read it; it's on my tbr. Well, pass my thanks on to Prometheus for "An Artist in Treason"! It looks like an interesting read.

Little Women is a good book (although I like Louisa May Alcott's other series that has "Eight Cousins" and "Rose in Bloom" even more). I keep telling myself that I'll go on to read "Little Men", but it just hasn't happened yet. I definitely lucked out in finding such a good copy of the doctor's book! We'll see which of us will get to reading "Artist in Treason" first! 😁

You're welcome! That was my challenge with Anne of Avonlea every time I've tried to read it in the past. That is why it worked out to be such a great deal for me to read Anne of Avonlea while Mom reads Northanger Abbey. Neither of us have previously been inclined to read more of the author the other really enjoys, so we are both getting something we want... we get to each share a book we love with someone previously resistant to reading it. It's always a bit of an odd feeling when almost everyone you know who likes to read thoroughly enjoys a book or series that you just can't get into. Especially when, in the case of Anne of Green Gables, when the first book in the series is so good. I think part of the problem is that Anne has grown up, as have Diana and the rest of them, so we are now dealing with young adults instead of charming children and teens. I don't kow about you, but I don't think that I was completely ready to let Anne grow up. I'll let y'all know what I think when I dive into into reading Anne of Avonlea next month. I don't know why I feel differently about Anne than I did about watching the characters from Eight Cousins grown up (quite a few years!) in Rose in Bloom. Maybe it's because I read Rose in Bloom first... 🤷🏻‍♀️ Have you read either of those books?

Thanks for creating a fun tag! I'm happy to find another channel too.

Agatha Christie is *the* author to read, if you want to read WW-I/WW-2 era murder mysteries (the Golden Age of such fiction in Britain). There is actually a really interesting nonfiction book called "The Golden Age of Murder" that talks about the Golden Age authors within the context of their times and how they influenced each other. I wish that the CheckerBee Check Lists were still printed; I think that the internet and websites where you can just find lists of books in chronological order eventually killed that series of books. Several big name authors had CherckerBee Checklists, but I can't remember any of the others off the top of my head. I was devastated when I had to quit nursing. I spent three years fighting the inevitable as I steadily became more disabled. I loved being a nurse; I saw it as an apostolate. I don't miss the daily physical and emotional struggle that overshadowed my last three years of nursing; the last year, in particular, was a very dark period in my life, although it was simultaneously the most spiritually rewarding period. I miss how I was able to help and care for people when they were at their most vulnerable, and I enjoy "talking shop" at my doctors appointments - it's like talking to old coworkers - although I know that soon I will have to accept the inevitable and let my nursing license lapse. I wasn't ready before, but I have finally reached that point of acceptance. Progress. Your aunt sounds like she's lived an interesting life! She probably saved herself from the burnout that unfortunately pops up in nursing by keeping things fresh with new career paths. I think that some of the most interesting people are the ones who have veered off the obvious path and tried something new. It takes a certain level of daring to reinvent yourself once, let alone multiple times! My family has a ton of interests, so it keeps things fresh and exciting for us. Between the four of us, at least one (if not more) of us have art (drawing, painting, sculpture, journaling, calligraphy), fiber arts, music, writing, and beadwork covered. So on top of reading, we will never get bored. We like it that way. The only problem is not having enough hours in the day! I'm glad you enjoyed the tour of my Mom's shelves! I considered showing my Dad's shelves as well (his shelves have his comic books - including some of my old ones - and his art books and art history books), but his art room is a lot tighter of a space; I would risk knocking over a painting in progress or one of the other finished paintings waiting to be mounted. You should record/browse your town library! That would be so much fun! God Bless...

You're welcome! Which books caught your eye?

There is something peaceful about the night when everyone else is asleep, at least. It's great for getting things like reading done. Did you enjoy working 3rd shift? This wouldn't be the first time people have thought that I am younger than I am (although I am a bit flattered that you thought I am over 10 years younger than I am); I used to initially get mistaken for a nursing student by my patients when I was actually the nurse precepting a nursing student. My Mom has quite often been mistaken for being significantly younger than she is (and for being my sister), so it's her fault. 🙃 I hope that I'll age as well as she has, in spite of my health issues and the wear and tear that comes from years of working nightshift.🤞🏻

@@tahlia__nerds_out I hated every second of third shift. I felt bad had a 12 year headache had migraines and was nauseated a lot. As doss I didn’t have to rely on a babysitter, my daughters overnight be by herself I left third shift. Actually I thought you were around 18 till you said you were a nurse for 10 years and I knew you had your go through nursing school so I said early twenties.