This was great, thanks Joe! Was pleased about "Interstellar" -- it is my favourite SF film and indeed, as you say, a rather moving film. And your explanation of cricket was spot-on. I think what confuses most people in this innumerate age is the scoring system, the more so in a test match. Interesting what you said about Dickens. What gets me about him is his manipulation of the reader's emotions, what was the called 'sentiments'. This idea is not mine -- it comes from Trollope's "The Warden" where he spoofs Dickens in the chapter called (I think) 'The Sentimental Novelist' in which he describes how Dickens would have told the story of Hiram's Hospital. One of Trollope's funniest parts, among the many! Your Canto sounds a bit like Tennyson's "In Memoriam", how fascinating. I hope you get to publish some of your creative writing down the line.
@@JoeSpivey02 I have yet to read his autobiography, so thanks for the reference! Have you read his travel writing? That is another lacuna in my reading, but I have read Victoria Glendinning's biography, which was most interesting.
Over the Hedge is the best animated movie of the 21st Century. I’m so pleased you like it and mentioned it. The Secret Life of Pets is second best. 😺✌️
I think you would like Red Chamber Dream (Story of the Stone) by Cao Xueqin. It works on so many levels - psychological, asethetic, philosophical. As if Proust and Dickens got drunk one night, read a lot of Classical Chinese poetry and decided to collaborate on a family saga involving the superiority of women and the illustory nature of all things. Just don't try the abridged versions, they're terrible.
13:08 All these questions sound really great, almost as a beginning of a novel, on a therase. Villain with a gun: would you like to fly or to become...invisible? However, he did not expect a cunning move and slight slip. So, we watch a small fight, good one, it is a good villain, however, he looses. At least until the next episode. Maybe.
Female American authors I suggest trying: Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and for someone a bit more modern Shirley Jackson Amusing video and I didn't think you'd answer all the questions I threw at you😅 Catcher in the Rye is indeed a book worthy of reading and discussion And now to return to the Pratchett I set aside to watch this video
I second especially Willa Cather and Edith Wharton (who is a kindred spirit - and was a friend - of Henry James). I think you might enjoy the great Southern writers (except Faulkner, whom I sure you won't like): Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor and, above all, the estimable Eudora Welty, my North Star.
Congratulations Joe 1 year celebrations 🎉🥳 xxxx
This was great, thanks Joe! Was pleased about "Interstellar" -- it is my favourite SF film and indeed, as you say, a rather moving film. And your explanation of cricket was spot-on. I think what confuses most people in this innumerate age is the scoring system, the more so in a test match.
Interesting what you said about Dickens. What gets me about him is his manipulation of the reader's emotions, what was the called 'sentiments'. This idea is not mine -- it comes from Trollope's "The Warden" where he spoofs Dickens in the chapter called (I think) 'The Sentimental Novelist' in which he describes how Dickens would have told the story of Hiram's Hospital. One of Trollope's funniest parts, among the many!
Your Canto sounds a bit like Tennyson's "In Memoriam", how fascinating. I hope you get to publish some of your creative writing down the line.
Trollope also takes a pop at Dickens in his own autobiography. I like it when shy little Anthony demotes that tired sentimentalist!
@@JoeSpivey02 I have yet to read his autobiography, so thanks for the reference! Have you read his travel writing? That is another lacuna in my reading, but I have read Victoria Glendinning's biography, which was most interesting.
Congratulations on reaching the one year mark!
Over the Hedge is the best animated movie of the 21st Century.
I’m so pleased you like it and mentioned it.
The Secret Life of Pets is second best.
😺✌️
17:11 that "potter" was extremely draco like
Re visiting the US, you do have a point, unfortunately. On another note, Pax Brit sounds like a great project for 2025!
Incidentally, if you have any interest in buddy reading a novel written by an American woman in 2025, let’s chat.
@@HannahsBooks I'd be more than happy to do that! My people will be in touch with your people😉
@@JoeSpivey02 🤓
Sorry I missed the livestream Q and A. Many congratulations on your first anniversary. Also, do read a Discworld novel or two, they are wonderful.
I think you would like Red Chamber Dream (Story of the Stone) by Cao Xueqin. It works on so many levels - psychological, asethetic, philosophical. As if Proust and Dickens got drunk one night, read a lot of Classical Chinese poetry and decided to collaborate on a family saga involving the superiority of women and the illustory nature of all things. Just don't try the abridged versions, they're terrible.
13:08 All these questions sound really great, almost as a beginning of a novel, on a therase. Villain with a gun: would you like to fly or to become...invisible? However, he did not expect a cunning move and slight slip.
So, we watch a small fight, good one, it is a good villain, however, he looses. At least until the next episode. Maybe.
Female American authors I suggest trying: Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and for someone a bit more modern Shirley Jackson
Amusing video and I didn't think you'd answer all the questions I threw at you😅
Catcher in the Rye is indeed a book worthy of reading and discussion
And now to return to the Pratchett I set aside to watch this video
I am merely a humble servant. ‘Twas an honour my friend!
Edith Wharton also came to my mind. Toni Morrison as well.
Dawn Powell and bell hook.
😺✌️
I second especially Willa Cather and Edith Wharton (who is a kindred spirit - and was a friend - of Henry James). I think you might enjoy the great Southern writers (except Faulkner, whom I sure you won't like): Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor and, above all, the estimable Eudora Welty, my North Star.
@@Geraldsbliss I’m so pleased to see other Welty lovers!