Ms. Erion! You are One of a kind! And very different from the common Booktuber. Please stay as you are. Honest and Original. Thank you for sharing -James
yes! I was just having this conversation with my family. Is it because their life is so grand that they have to nitpick about the most inane things? Or is it because they feel there isn't anything in their life they have control over? But that wouldn't make sense, because then they would have a tbr. LOL Excellent point Angie. Thank you for shining a light on that. Are you home yet? And do you get to bring Julio with you?
All my tbr's have crashed and burned in spectacular fashion. Decided this month to do a reading forecast. Often the weather forecast is wrong but partially correct, seems fitting. my house is one big P.O.O😅
🤣 Funny and yet I'm sorry. I hope no person, animal or book was harmed in the tbr failure. A reading forecast would be a great video. The weather forecast is rarely correct in my neck of the woods. If we're ever forced to lock down again Your P.O.O. will be reliable entertainment. And the dogs of course. 🐶
It’s so odd to me that people would be bothered by a tbr that one picks for oneself! If I don’t have some sort of monthly or quarterly tbr, I would constant be picking up books at random and losing interest. By gathering like that I might want to read, I narrow things down and am able to read in a more focused manner. The tbr is then adjusted as I see fit during the course of the month or quarter. It’s less like a rule or a strict lesson plan, and more like a flexible guideline. Like the difference between the rigid organization of the public school system vs the flexible planning of homeschooling. But I was homeschooled and you did homeschooling for your kids, so that might also contribute to why a more organized approach to reading appeals to us. In a public school system, what is and isn’t read would be pretty strictly imposed, perhaps making an organized approach to reading in one’s personal life less palatable. The homeschooler has more control over the reading curriculum, and so organizing one’s reading for a month or a quarter might not feel as much like an imposition. But I’m just spitballing here. It could just be that we both just love any excuse for making lists! 😂 NOTE 1: I went down a rabbit trail for The Johnstown Flood as well, and picked up “An American Doctor’s Odyssey”, which is the memoir of Dr. Victor Heiser, who, as a teen, was the only member of his family to survive the flood. It’s a 1936 first edition, and one of my book treasures. I don’t think I’ll get to it this year. But I look forward to the day I will finally read it. NOTE 2: Looking forward to our two buddy reads next year! I think we said we were starting with My Dearest Friend, right? 7:40 RUclips took me to an add after you dropped whatever is was that you dropped. That worked out so well, it almost looked like it was planned that way! 😄 8:41 what is this monogamous reading of which you speak? Is this a new reading method I shall discover in How To Read A Book? 🙃
I'm still completley baffled about why some people want to control how other people read or choose their books. I was thinking about your comment for the public education and it made me wonder what is happening in their lives currently that they feel the need to control how other people decide what to read or complain about tbr's, but not control their own lives? It made me think of people noticing other people's clutter instead of their own. 🤷♀ I'm spitballing too. LOL I'm so incredibly grateful I was able to home educate Prometheus. My older two had to go to school, but when they were on break I still gave them things to do. My older son hated it, but thanked me for it when he was 18 or so and made me promise to raise his brother the same way I raised him and his sister. LOL I think I did a better job with Prometheus, but life was better too. I look forward to your review on "An American Doctor's Odyssey" whenever you get to it. Hooray for having a first edition! That is a treasure. 💎 I'm putting a gem, because the emoji's don't have a treasure chest. Yes! I'm so excited to have a buddyread with you with My Dearest Friend. I have a note we're going to buddyread 1812 too. What month did you want to read that? I have adblock and I would not watch this platform if I had to suffer through all of the ridiculous ads. But that is funny the ad came on right as the clock fell. I don't recommend monogamous reading. LOL
Hi, hello and wow today I learned there are a lot of acronyms for TBR! I would consider any books on hold at the library part of my TBR but wouldn't call it a TBR if that makes sense. I don't set up any lists on Goodreads or storygraph cause then it feels like I have to read it if it's on a list And I'm right there with you on the rabbit trails! I wanna be able to read whatever. But at the same time I do not like the idea of reading a chapter or two to see if I like it. Once I pick something out I'm just dead set on finishing it. It's always a fun time here picking out a book lol. But I do have a pretty simple system. If I bought it, then it's #1 on the queue. Everything else I read is based on what I'm in the mood for and what looks best at the moment And I definitely agree with NO RULES to reading! Read what you want! Read what you like! If I had a rule it would be that I only read one book at a time. But since Spotify added audiobooks and while I'm subscribed to Kindle Unlimited I've started listening to little short stories lately when driving or walking so I guess that would count as reading more than one book at a time Thanks for sharing and see ya on the next one! Oh and that poor clock lol
Hi, hello~ Yeah, I made that list of acronyms in jest a couple of years ago, because, what's in a name? I don't know if I still have that video up. I think books on hold at the library are just that. books on hold. I don't understand why people put so much pressure on themselves. Reading for entertainment should be fun/enjoyable. Even when I'm reading nonfiction and learning it should be enjoyable. (shhh, I think you're cheating on your book with the short story audible. It's okay. I won't tell) 😉 The poor clock, sure, but my poor Sadie! The stupid clock landed on her back leg. I'm trying to protect her and then that happens! I felt awful. Happy reading~
My TBR might be called fluid by some, but my husband would say its dangerous (and so is his!). It grows daily and its going to fall over and be the death of us in our sleep. Neither one of us has the time to read we think we do and I have to walk through our 5000+ library to get to my freezer. And I went to another library book sale this morning.
🤣📚📚📚📚📚 Oh my goodness, that sounds so dangerous. I think you need to share a video of your private library. What did you get at the book sale? 😁 I've been toying with the idea of turning our formal dining room into an office/library for me. I have a picture that I really like, but the shelves won't be built in. I had thought about getting thoughts from everyone on here and sharing what our dining room currently looks like and sharing the ideas. Okay, I'm really curious about your books and your set up.
@@BookZealots my husband has/had a book channel and made 1 or 2 videos narrating books, but stopped when others like it started coming up in the search that didn't before he started. Now we don't have time to read as much as we like. Time. As to what we picked up: James by Everett, Blackout by Candace Owens , 2 "cozy mysteries" (which I thought was only a category on BookTube) for when I'm too tired to think, The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, Solar Marner by George Eliot (I haven't read anything by those authors), The Last Of The Logic and by Cooper (we have a nice copy but needed one to write on), and Wuthering Heights which I read 13 yrs ago and didn't like but maybe I've changed. We also picked up some kids Spanish and German books and a couple music biographies. Top book price was $1. We need more reading time.
@@Fernie4243 You mean your husband started booktube?! Why did he stop? I'm actually surprised he didn't get harassed from the platform for narrating books. I've heard Candace owen's story from her youtube channel a few years ago..,? It has been a hot minute, but I haven't read her book. What is The Last of the Logic? I haven't heard of that and tried to look it up. Is that supposed to be the Last of the Mohicans? I'm thinking it is and ai decided to "auto-correct" because what do we humans know? pshhh. LOL I haven't read that either. I liked The Mayor of Casterbridge and his Far from the Madding Crowd. Let me know what you think of James. Great job on the prices of all of the books you got!
@@BookZealots I hate AI! You were correct. I even corrected it before I posted and it changed to again. My husband stopped when he saw the niche was already covered by others who were established. I don't even know if he even made any of them live. He wanted people to read the great books, and if they couldn't, to listen to them. Rob at The Cause does a great job analyzing and condensing them so it's out there. I didn't mention, if you aren't using your dining room, yes convert it. The people who lived here before us converted ours into a bedroom and changed the door placement. It would have taken a lot to change it back so that is one of our libraries. I wish I could post pictures here because my husband did a fantastic job arranging it with space on the walls for our President and religious artwork and it is a small room. It looked so good my 12 yr old wanted it for her room and moved in there last year. LOL I wouldn't mind living in a library either.
@@Fernie4243 Oh yay! I didn't know you followed Rob Pirie. He's great! His coffee is good too. so good and I'm a loose leaf tea snob. LOL LOL Your 12 year old has good taste. 📚📚💗💗
I don't usually set a TBR, but I do like to have an idea (at least mentally) of the books I'm interested in picking up at the moment. I used to set very rigid TBRs and I didn't like that. But have some planned out works.
I like that. mental tbr's are good. Oh no, I could never do a rigid tbr. I go down too many rabbit trails for that to work for me. LOL Thank you for sharing Courtney. =)
I am bored easily in my reading. I read a few pages put the book down and start another. I want to read all the books at the same time. I love books besides my dog babies they make me happy. I want more and more books. I will never read all the books I have but I want more and more. I have a tbr list. I keep Adding to it and I will never read all my tbr books. I read many books at one time. I am currently reading 5 books.
Hi Vickie~ Have you posted on your channel the five books you're reading? Have you become more or less discerning about the books you bring into your home to add to your physical tbr?
@@BookZealots I have become more discerning. I buy mostly history, biographies and memoirs. I buy some historical fiction. I want to spend my time now reading books about things , events or people I want to know more about. I’ve been trying to post on my channel for 3 weeks but it just won’t download. I don’t know what the problem is. Reading- Peter the great by Robert k massie, the great bridge by David McCullough, the daughters of Edward I by Kathryn Warner, a great and terrible king Edward I by Marc Morris and John Wayne, the life and legend by Scott Eyman.
@@user-iz6cc6lz3j-Vickie That's what happened with me as well about bringing books into the house. (even library books) Oh no. I'm sorry to hear youtube is being persnickety. I wish I could help. Is the video longer than 10 minutes? I remember when we first started we had to make videos that were super short in order to upload them.
🤣 Commitment issues. It's the same as when people say "It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle." TBRs can be too much of a lifestyle/commitment for some of us hahaha
LOL I hadn't thought of that way. Diets can be overwhelming and lifestyle is definitely a commitment.ugh, baby steps. This is why diets start every monday. 🤣 I remember my mom saying this. She wasn't even overweight, but she was always very vain. But it was 100% on Monday and then fall off on Tuesday or Friday. LOL I agree, piles of book options aren't for everyone. Are you reading anything good right now? Is life treating you well?
Ms. Erion! You are One of a kind! And very different from the common Booktuber. Please stay as you are. Honest and Original. Thank you for sharing -James
Thank you James. No worries about that. If someone is ever on my channel that looks like me but behaves differently, it's a body snatcher. LOL
I’d never heard that complaint about TBRs, but it doesn’t surprise me. In our culture, finding absolutely anything problematic has become a past time.
yes! I was just having this conversation with my family. Is it because their life is so grand that they have to nitpick about the most inane things? Or is it because they feel there isn't anything in their life they have control over? But that wouldn't make sense, because then they would have a tbr. LOL
Excellent point Angie. Thank you for shining a light on that.
Are you home yet? And do you get to bring Julio with you?
All my tbr's have crashed and burned in spectacular fashion. Decided this month to do a reading forecast. Often the weather forecast is wrong but partially correct, seems fitting.
my house is one big P.O.O😅
🤣 Funny and yet I'm sorry. I hope no person, animal or book was harmed in the tbr failure. A reading forecast would be a great video. The weather forecast is rarely correct in my neck of the woods. If we're ever forced to lock down again Your P.O.O. will be reliable entertainment. And the dogs of course. 🐶
@@BookZealots NEVER AGAIN 😮💨
@@HideAndRead That's exactly how we feel. We didn't do it the first time. But we're rebels. LOL
A Reading Forecast! That sounds about right. A reading plan destined to Fail?
@@Littlebiglibrary bound to get the weather right once in a while 😅
I also read more than one book at a time, but they have to be different genres. Love this video! 💯 agree with you. I love a good TBR!
Hello and thank you. Huzzah for good tbr's.
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Great points!
Thank you Cheryl. I just don't understand why people put so much pressure on themselves. It's just reading. How do they deal with real life problems?
Great way to organise your thoughts and your reading. Best wishes.
Thank you. It sure helps in getting more books read. 📚📚🤗
I will take your advice and go read a good book!!
Hooray! Happy reading.
It’s so odd to me that people would be bothered by a tbr that one picks for oneself! If I don’t have some sort of monthly or quarterly tbr, I would constant be picking up books at random and losing interest. By gathering like that I might want to read, I narrow things down and am able to read in a more focused manner. The tbr is then adjusted as I see fit during the course of the month or quarter. It’s less like a rule or a strict lesson plan, and more like a flexible guideline. Like the difference between the rigid organization of the public school system vs the flexible planning of homeschooling. But I was homeschooled and you did homeschooling for your kids, so that might also contribute to why a more organized approach to reading appeals to us. In a public school system, what is and isn’t read would be pretty strictly imposed, perhaps making an organized approach to reading in one’s personal life less palatable. The homeschooler has more control over the reading curriculum, and so organizing one’s reading for a month or a quarter might not feel as much like an imposition.
But I’m just spitballing here. It could just be that we both just love any excuse for making lists! 😂
NOTE 1: I went down a rabbit trail for The Johnstown Flood as well, and picked up “An American Doctor’s Odyssey”, which is the memoir of Dr. Victor Heiser, who, as a teen, was the only member of his family to survive the flood. It’s a 1936 first edition, and one of my book treasures. I don’t think I’ll get to it this year. But I look forward to the day I will finally read it.
NOTE 2: Looking forward to our two buddy reads next year! I think we said we were starting with My Dearest Friend, right?
7:40 RUclips took me to an add after you dropped whatever is was that you dropped. That worked out so well, it almost looked like it was planned that way! 😄
8:41 what is this monogamous reading of which you speak? Is this a new reading method I shall discover in How To Read A Book? 🙃
I'm still completley baffled about why some people want to control how other people read or choose their books. I was thinking about your comment for the public education and it made me wonder what is happening in their lives currently that they feel the need to control how other people decide what to read or complain about tbr's, but not control their own lives? It made me think of people noticing other people's clutter instead of their own. 🤷♀ I'm spitballing too. LOL
I'm so incredibly grateful I was able to home educate Prometheus. My older two had to go to school, but when they were on break I still gave them things to do. My older son hated it, but thanked me for it when he was 18 or so and made me promise to raise his brother the same way I raised him and his sister. LOL I think I did a better job with Prometheus, but life was better too.
I look forward to your review on "An American Doctor's Odyssey" whenever you get to it. Hooray for having a first edition! That is a treasure. 💎 I'm putting a gem, because the emoji's don't have a treasure chest.
Yes! I'm so excited to have a buddyread with you with My Dearest Friend. I have a note we're going to buddyread 1812 too. What month did you want to read that?
I have adblock and I would not watch this platform if I had to suffer through all of the ridiculous ads. But that is funny the ad came on right as the clock fell.
I don't recommend monogamous reading. LOL
Hi, hello and wow today I learned there are a lot of acronyms for TBR! I would consider any books on hold at the library part of my TBR but wouldn't call it a TBR if that makes sense. I don't set up any lists on Goodreads or storygraph cause then it feels like I have to read it if it's on a list
And I'm right there with you on the rabbit trails! I wanna be able to read whatever. But at the same time I do not like the idea of reading a chapter or two to see if I like it. Once I pick something out I'm just dead set on finishing it. It's always a fun time here picking out a book lol. But I do have a pretty simple system. If I bought it, then it's #1 on the queue. Everything else I read is based on what I'm in the mood for and what looks best at the moment
And I definitely agree with NO RULES to reading! Read what you want! Read what you like! If I had a rule it would be that I only read one book at a time. But since Spotify added audiobooks and while I'm subscribed to Kindle Unlimited I've started listening to little short stories lately when driving or walking so I guess that would count as reading more than one book at a time
Thanks for sharing and see ya on the next one! Oh and that poor clock lol
Hi, hello~ Yeah, I made that list of acronyms in jest a couple of years ago, because, what's in a name? I don't know if I still have that video up. I think books on hold at the library are just that. books on hold. I don't understand why people put so much pressure on themselves. Reading for entertainment should be fun/enjoyable. Even when I'm reading nonfiction and learning it should be enjoyable. (shhh, I think you're cheating on your book with the short story audible. It's okay. I won't tell) 😉
The poor clock, sure, but my poor Sadie! The stupid clock landed on her back leg. I'm trying to protect her and then that happens! I felt awful.
Happy reading~
My TBR might be called fluid by some, but my husband would say its dangerous (and so is his!). It grows daily and its going to fall over and be the death of us in our sleep. Neither one of us has the time to read we think we do and I have to walk through our 5000+ library to get to my freezer. And I went to another library book sale this morning.
🤣📚📚📚📚📚 Oh my goodness, that sounds so dangerous. I think you need to share a video of your private library. What did you get at the book sale? 😁
I've been toying with the idea of turning our formal dining room into an office/library for me. I have a picture that I really like, but the shelves won't be built in. I had thought about getting thoughts from everyone on here and sharing what our dining room currently looks like and sharing the ideas. Okay, I'm really curious about your books and your set up.
@@BookZealots my husband has/had a book channel and made 1 or 2 videos narrating books, but stopped when others like it started coming up in the search that didn't before he started. Now we don't have time to read as much as we like. Time.
As to what we picked up: James by Everett, Blackout by Candace Owens , 2 "cozy mysteries" (which I thought was only a category on BookTube) for when I'm too tired to think, The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, Solar Marner by George Eliot (I haven't read anything by those authors), The Last Of The Logic and by Cooper (we have a nice copy but needed one to write on), and Wuthering Heights which I read 13 yrs ago and didn't like but maybe I've changed. We also picked up some kids Spanish and German books and a couple music biographies. Top book price was $1. We need more reading time.
@@Fernie4243 You mean your husband started booktube?! Why did he stop? I'm actually surprised he didn't get harassed from the platform for narrating books. I've heard Candace owen's story from her youtube channel a few years ago..,? It has been a hot minute, but I haven't read her book. What is The Last of the Logic? I haven't heard of that and tried to look it up. Is that supposed to be the Last of the Mohicans? I'm thinking it is and ai decided to "auto-correct" because what do we humans know? pshhh. LOL I haven't read that either. I liked The Mayor of Casterbridge and his Far from the Madding Crowd. Let me know what you think of James.
Great job on the prices of all of the books you got!
@@BookZealots I hate AI! You were correct. I even corrected it before I posted and it changed to again. My husband stopped when he saw the niche was already covered by others who were established. I don't even know if he even made any of them live. He wanted people to read the great books, and if they couldn't, to listen to them. Rob at The Cause does a great job analyzing and condensing them so it's out there.
I didn't mention, if you aren't using your dining room, yes convert it. The people who lived here before us converted ours into a bedroom and changed the door placement. It would have taken a lot to change it back so that is one of our libraries. I wish I could post pictures here because my husband did a fantastic job arranging it with space on the walls for our President and religious artwork and it is a small room. It looked so good my 12 yr old wanted it for her room and moved in there last year. LOL I wouldn't mind living in a library either.
@@Fernie4243 Oh yay! I didn't know you followed Rob Pirie. He's great! His coffee is good too. so good and I'm a loose leaf tea snob. LOL
LOL Your 12 year old has good taste. 📚📚💗💗
I don't usually set a TBR, but I do like to have an idea (at least mentally) of the books I'm interested in picking up at the moment. I used to set very rigid TBRs and I didn't like that. But have some planned out works.
I like that. mental tbr's are good. Oh no, I could never do a rigid tbr. I go down too many rabbit trails for that to work for me. LOL Thank you for sharing Courtney. =)
I am bored easily in my reading. I read a few pages put the book down and start another. I want to read all the books at the same time. I love books besides my dog babies they make me happy. I want more and more books. I will never read all the books I have but I want more and more. I have a tbr list. I keep
Adding to it and I will never read all my tbr books. I read many books at one time. I am currently reading 5 books.
Hi Vickie~ Have you posted on your channel the five books you're reading? Have you become more or less discerning about the books you bring into your home to add to your physical tbr?
@@BookZealots I have become more discerning. I buy mostly history, biographies and memoirs. I buy some historical fiction. I want to spend my time now reading books about things , events or people I want to know more about. I’ve been trying to post on my channel for 3 weeks but it just won’t download. I don’t know what the problem is. Reading- Peter the great by Robert k massie, the great bridge by David McCullough, the daughters of Edward I by Kathryn Warner, a great and terrible king Edward I by Marc Morris and John Wayne, the life and legend by Scott Eyman.
@@user-iz6cc6lz3j-Vickie That's what happened with me as well about bringing books into the house. (even library books)
Oh no. I'm sorry to hear youtube is being persnickety. I wish I could help. Is the video longer than 10 minutes? I remember when we first started we had to make videos that were super short in order to upload them.
@@BookZealots it’s one minute 45 seconds long
@@user-iz6cc6lz3j-Vickie Weird. It also doesn't make sense, now that youtube allows "shorts."
I like a bit of structure in my reading too, but sticking to it too closely is not for me. Great discussion!
Thank you Heidi. Glad to see you.
🤣 Commitment issues. It's the same as when people say "It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle." TBRs can be too much of a lifestyle/commitment for some of us hahaha
LOL I hadn't thought of that way. Diets can be overwhelming and lifestyle is definitely a commitment.ugh, baby steps. This is why diets start every monday. 🤣 I remember my mom saying this. She wasn't even overweight, but she was always very vain. But it was 100% on Monday and then fall off on Tuesday or Friday. LOL I agree, piles of book options aren't for everyone.
Are you reading anything good right now? Is life treating you well?