Thank you so much!! I'm excited to make said future videos :) I saw in your channel description that you enjoy Japanese literature - maybe I'll make a video on the Tale of Genji in the future
Thank you so much Mark! And many thanks for bringing that to my attention, I just went over to her channel and it truly warmed my heart. It seems like a good time to be new on booktube! Just subbed to your channel and about to watch your video on the Lord of the Rings, I've been doing loads of winter cleaning whilst listening to The Return of the King on audible, and I'm preparing for the emotional devastation that is sure to follow when I complete it. Hopefully I'll be ready, this being my second go around, but we'll just have to see :) Happy holidays!
Hello there fellow newbie!! Maaann what a pleasure it is to be so warmly received into a community like this, MJ is so kind. I saw in your booktube newbie tag that you like historical fiction, that's definitely a big blind spot of mine in my reading and I hope to fix that one day! Hope you're having a nice holiday season :)
Welcome to Booktube! This video really brightened my day. You are incredibly kind to refer to me as a “poetry expert”, haha. For Seamus Heaney, I own an edition titled “Opened Ground,” which is a fairly meaty selection of his poems (about 400 pages worth). There are some newer selections, which may serve you just as well, but I haven’t been able to find a collected edition! As someone who does not have musical skill but loves to listen to it, I find it fascinating that you are a musician. But I’ll end this comment so that it doesn’t get too long - I look forward to your future videos!
Maaannn that makes me so happy to hear it had a positive impact on your day :) You are certainly more of an expert than me, and I'll keep an eye out for "Opened Ground" - maybe I'll look up what selections are in there and read some of the poems within them on the Poetry Foundation website. I look forward to your future videos as well, and I especially love your poetry readings!
Thank you so much!! Welcome to you as well, this is quite a nice corner of youtube to find ourselves in :)) I'm glad you like the enchanted forest, it gets even more magical when I turn off the overheads and let the fairy lights work their magic
You are so delightful! Thank you for mentioning me. I'm so glad to have found you! Welcome to the community and to "our corner." You are going to have so much fun here. Congratulations on your recent college graduation. I loved hearing about your experience of reading Moby Dick and your discovery of Seamus Heaney. I am really looking forward to seeing your future videos. Welcome!
Thank you so much Pat! This is a very wholesome and beautiful corner indeed, and you're a very bright spot in it :) I'm glad you liked hearing about Moby Dick - one of the things I'm most excited to do on this channel is talk at length about books that I particularly love, and Moby Dick will certainly get more attention. I look forward to more videos of yours as well and thank you for stopping by!
Goodness gracious, it's an honor to recieve words from Stately Vaughan Manor! I positively love your channel, and you've put authors like Dashiell Hammett and Robert E. Howard on my radar - Thank you for that, and I can't wait to get to them :) I completely agree with you about Moby Dick. I could exhaust most of the adjectives of the English language in attempts to characterize that book, but fantastic is a particularly apt one. And that edition certain is durable... perhaps a little too durable! It's heavy as hell hahahh
Welcome! You are going to fit in well to this corner of booktube if you like Moby Dick and Genji. What a charming video! I’m looking forward to more videos from you. I hope you will show us a bit of your music sometime.
Thank you so very much Hannah! I'm glad you think so hahahh, I certainly can't wait to talk about those books in depth with y'all. Perhaps sometime down the line I'll point y'all in the direction of my music, but for now I'm happy to keep this channel solely book focused (although we'll see how long that lasts, it seems I can't go very long without mentioning music in some way... :))
Hi there! I'm looking forward to hearing about all bookish things you want to share with us. From an oldie content creator to a newbie, welcome aboard. We're so glad to have you here!
Welcome. I’m due for a reread of Moby Dick. Loved it when I read it, but that’s been several years now. Always great to have more musicians around. I’m by no means a professional, but I play the violin and sing. I’d like to do more with it some day. -T
Thanks so much! Great to hear that all this Moby talk makes you want to give it a reread :D And violin, wow, that's crazy impressive. I don't play any fretless instruments, but I've fooled around on a Cello a couple of times and it felt like I was walking on ice in flat slippers. I think bowed instruments are much like human voices in their ability to steadily crescendo - a voice and a violin go really well together :)
Hi Robin
You are a refreshing and interesting addition to BookTube. Welcome! Look forward to getting to know you better through your videos…
Thank you so so much Karen, it's a pleasure to be here! I hope you're having a nice holiday season :)
It's downright eerie how similar are hair style is. It's like looking into a mirror!
Just one of the many joys we share of being in our twenties! ;)
@@RobinSongReads but old fogies are always underestimating us! It's so frustrating!
Welcome to Booktube, look forward to seeing your future videos.
Thank you so much!! I'm excited to make said future videos :) I saw in your channel description that you enjoy Japanese literature - maybe I'll make a video on the Tale of Genji in the future
Came by way of M-J who gave you a shout-out. Hello from a fellow noob[ish] to book tube. Subbed for support. Good luck with your journey! Best, Mark.
Thank you so much Mark! And many thanks for bringing that to my attention, I just went over to her channel and it truly warmed my heart. It seems like a good time to be new on booktube! Just subbed to your channel and about to watch your video on the Lord of the Rings, I've been doing loads of winter cleaning whilst listening to The Return of the King on audible, and I'm preparing for the emotional devastation that is sure to follow when I complete it. Hopefully I'll be ready, this being my second go around, but we'll just have to see :) Happy holidays!
@@RobinSongReads Happy Merry Season etc, and good luck with LOTR [I have just recorded an episode on Aragorn]. And MJ is a treasure.
Hi there, just came here to say hey as we both got a shout out from MJ! Hey from a fellow newbie!
Hello there fellow newbie!! Maaann what a pleasure it is to be so warmly received into a community like this, MJ is so kind. I saw in your booktube newbie tag that you like historical fiction, that's definitely a big blind spot of mine in my reading and I hope to fix that one day! Hope you're having a nice holiday season :)
It’s wonderful to have you here - and a Genji reading, Moby Dick loving musician no less!
Hahahahh thank you so much!! I just watched your video on "Behave" by Robert Sapolsky and loved it, I hope you'll make more videos someday :)
@ Thank you, that means a lot frankly.
Welcome to Booktube! This video really brightened my day. You are incredibly kind to refer to me as a “poetry expert”, haha. For Seamus Heaney, I own an edition titled “Opened Ground,” which is a fairly meaty selection of his poems (about 400 pages worth). There are some newer selections, which may serve you just as well, but I haven’t been able to find a collected edition! As someone who does not have musical skill but loves to listen to it, I find it fascinating that you are a musician. But I’ll end this comment so that it doesn’t get too long - I look forward to your future videos!
Maaannn that makes me so happy to hear it had a positive impact on your day :) You are certainly more of an expert than me, and I'll keep an eye out for "Opened Ground" - maybe I'll look up what selections are in there and read some of the poems within them on the Poetry Foundation website. I look forward to your future videos as well, and I especially love your poetry readings!
Maybe I’ll try to show the volume in my next poetry video, which will hopefully be soon. 🙂
Welcome Robin, I’m new too, love the enchanted forest!
Thank you so much!! Welcome to you as well, this is quite a nice corner of youtube to find ourselves in :)) I'm glad you like the enchanted forest, it gets even more magical when I turn off the overheads and let the fairy lights work their magic
@@RobinSongReads I can believe! :)
You are so delightful! Thank you for mentioning me. I'm so glad to have found you! Welcome to the community and to "our corner." You are going to have so much fun here. Congratulations on your recent college graduation. I loved hearing about your experience of reading Moby Dick and your discovery of Seamus Heaney. I am really looking forward to seeing your future videos. Welcome!
Thank you so much Pat! This is a very wholesome and beautiful corner indeed, and you're a very bright spot in it :) I'm glad you liked hearing about Moby Dick - one of the things I'm most excited to do on this channel is talk at length about books that I particularly love, and Moby Dick will certainly get more attention. I look forward to more videos of yours as well and thank you for stopping by!
Moby Dick is fantastic. I’ve read it three times. That edition seems very durable!
Goodness gracious, it's an honor to recieve words from Stately Vaughan Manor! I positively love your channel, and you've put authors like Dashiell Hammett and Robert E. Howard on my radar - Thank you for that, and I can't wait to get to them :) I completely agree with you about Moby Dick. I could exhaust most of the adjectives of the English language in attempts to characterize that book, but fantastic is a particularly apt one. And that edition certain is durable... perhaps a little too durable! It's heavy as hell hahahh
Welcome! You are going to fit in well to this corner of booktube if you like Moby Dick and Genji.
What a charming video! I’m looking forward to more videos from you. I hope you will show us a bit of your music sometime.
Thank you so very much Hannah! I'm glad you think so hahahh, I certainly can't wait to talk about those books in depth with y'all. Perhaps sometime down the line I'll point y'all in the direction of my music, but for now I'm happy to keep this channel solely book focused (although we'll see how long that lasts, it seems I can't go very long without mentioning music in some way... :))
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Hi there! I'm looking forward to hearing about all bookish things you want to share with us. From an oldie content creator to a newbie, welcome aboard. We're so glad to have you here!
Thank you so much Nicholas!! I'm so stoked to be here, and I feel very welcomed thanks to kind words like yours :)
Welcome aboard the BookTube train! 🚆
Thank you so much, David! I'm really hoping this'll be more like a Love Train situation than a Murder on the Orient Exprest type deal.
Welcome Robin.
Thank you very much James :)
Welcome. I’m due for a reread of Moby Dick. Loved it when I read it, but that’s been several years now. Always great to have more musicians around. I’m by no means a professional, but I play the violin and sing. I’d like to do more with it some day.
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Thanks so much! Great to hear that all this Moby talk makes you want to give it a reread :D And violin, wow, that's crazy impressive. I don't play any fretless instruments, but I've fooled around on a Cello a couple of times and it felt like I was walking on ice in flat slippers. I think bowed instruments are much like human voices in their ability to steadily crescendo - a voice and a violin go really well together :)
absolutely. As long as you get past the squeaky stage. Although that can apply to both violin and voice. 😅
Welcome!
So glad you are here, and looking forward to enjoying more of your wonderful enthusiasm! Yay!
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You are so kind for saying that, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I can't wait to make more
Hey welcome to booktube! 😊
Thank you so much! It's very nice to be here in this way :)
Subbed. Dragging a book about whaling around Japan is very subtle trolling..
Hahahahh, I am not at all brilliant enough to have mentioned that on purpose - you have a very keen eye :)