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Possession by AS Byatt
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Again - just so wonderful to hear you talk about life and love and what brings you joy (pages, people, ideas...) 🥰
Thank you so much, Deea!
Used to translate songs into ASL to entertain my nonverbal grandson. He loved it and my singing and realized he could sign a little bit, too. I wish folks could appreciate the value of signing in everyday life not just for disabilities.
I'm a bit hard of hearing, and signing with my spouse allowed me to eat out at loud restaurants. ASL was our son's first language--although we did not expect that. I'm so glad to hear that it has worked for y'all, too.
Hi Hannah, it's clear that you and David were a team. Remember he's still cheering for you, please finish the book so that your collective work shines through. ❤❤ 🫂
Thank you so much, Memphis. This means a great deal to me.
Thank you for answering my question Hannah, I'm excited about the prospect of you doing a video on your analysis and review process.
Thanks for the excellent question!
Thank you for the compliment and the thoughtful response. I've heard that Ian Mortimer, Ruth Goodman, and Monica Hall combined are good for a slice of life understanding of English history. They're on my TBR.
Thank you! I have read a bit of Mortimer and really love Goodman's work (including her videos)! I'm off to look up Monica Hall.
I have a kind of off-the-wall recommendation for British History. It's called Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths by Dr. Suzie Edge. Dr. Edge is a medical doctor who has turned her interests towards history and in this entertaining jaunt through history, she goes through how the monarchs died and what their deaths meant to Great Britain. She is very funny and while there is a lot of medical information here, it is very accessible. It also provides a good high-level survey of the last 1000+ years of English History.
Thank you! That sounds incredibly up my alley. I'll go look for it right away!
I loved hearing about the collaborative writing process between you and David. About Gatsby and Gallaudet also actually. (Have you ever read Oliver Sacks _Seeing Voices?_ I did years ago but have forgotten much.) Yes! A video on the review process! I’m looking forward to the next installment. 👍
Thank you so much, David. Yes--I read Sack's book when I lost hearing in one ear, when I first started learning sign language. Definitely a wonderful book--although at the time, I had just read all the books he had read to prepare his--and did not appreciate as much at first as I came to later on.
For more recent history, Andrew Marr's documentary TV series: The Making of Modern Britain (1900-1945) and History of Modern Britain (1945-2007) is very good. I think there's a book to accompany the series as well. If your eyesight's good (the print is small), and you are looking for a highly illustrated gallop through the history of Britain and Ireland, there's Dorling Kindersley's History of Britain and Ireland - the Definitive Visual Guide. Due to it's layout and magazine-type style, it's a pick up, put down book, not one to read in one sitting but I found it useful.
I'll look up the documentaries! Thank you. DK books are pretty amazing, and I should definitely check that one out of the library!
Setting books...makes me think of Susanna Kearsley and Vanessa Riley, a pair I had on to talk about place in historical fiction, and two ladies who do it MARVELOUSLY! :)
Putting them on my list! I've been going through a "regionalist literature" kick lately, and thinking about place and setting is so relevant to my reading right now!
I really enjoyed this installment of Q&As. I am fascinated by the Gatsby conversation. I've read that book so many times and I'm still puzzling over the characters. It was wonderful to learn more about you in this video, Hannah.
Thanks, A. The puzzling over exactly who the characters are in Gatsby is definitely one of the things that keeps me coming back again and again!
One of my favorite topics in reading and research is Medieval English History till the end of the Wars of the Roses. Loved Peter Ackroyd’s first two volumes of History of England (haven’t read the subsequent volumes) and his London: The Biography. Also loved the Great Courses DVD “Story of Medieval England” by Professor Jennifer Paxton. I hope you talk more about ancient literature and I look forward to your video on Gilgamesh! Thank you for your videos!!
Thank you so much for the recommendations! The Ackroyd books are on the shelves, and that might be the place I’ll start.
Very cool that you taught at Gally! I bet you remember a lot more sign than you think! Fun getting to know you better with these q and a's!
So glad you are here! I do sign with friends occasionally still, but I could never handle a university classroom now...
Run for president 😝 I roped that reference into my poetry video, funnily enough!
Really?!! I have to go watch! (I am so behind on booktube...)
Lovely video, Hannah. You are so generous in your responses. I loved hearing about your special connection to A.S Byatt’s Possession because of your discovery of it in the early days of your relationship with David. I, too, have a special connection with that book, but for much less poignant reasons. I’ll share at another time. I also loved your association of Gatsby with Trump! I sort of cheered aloud when you said that. Finally, and this is not related to this video, I wanted to make sure you saw that I tagged you on a short video last week where I read a poem for teachers, “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman. I think you’ll appreciate it. 😊
Thank you so much, Pat. I'd love to hear your stories about the Byatt book! (I have your video, and a thousand other videos, on my TBW pile. I'll go watch this afternoon!)
@@HannahsBooks Please feel NO pressure. I just wanted to make sure you knew that I had tagged you on the teacher poem!
Good morning Hannah. I always love watching your videos. Glad to see you’re holding up during difficult times. Your videos always remind me of the power of reading and how our interior lives are tied to our reading. Possession had an impact on you and your husband. My wife and I connected in college over To the Lighthouse. Ah, I wish we lived in the same neighborhood. Coffee and book talk. Bliss. What a beautiful spirit you have. Happy Total Eclipse day.
Happy Eclipse Day to you, too! Thank you so much for your kind comments. I love that To the Lighthouse did it for the two of you! If you are ever in the area, or know I will be in your area, let's definitely meet up!
Oh, I didn't realize you taught at Gallaudet! I'm currently finishing my dissertation in Linguistics on ASL conversational structure. My "pleasure reading" book right now is Sounds Like Home, Mary Herring Wright's memoir of growing up in North Carolina as a Black Deaf woman, which sounds like it's something up your academic alley. Thanks for sharing so much about yourself and your perspective.
How wonderful! I haven't taught there in almost twenty-five years now. Amazing that you are reading Mary Herring Wright's book!!! Do you know about Junius Wilson? We referenced her in our book!
@@HannahsBooks No, I hadn't heard of him. But I just looked him up and found I could download a pdf of your book from the university library. Done! I'll look forward to learning about him. His story sounds absolutely tragic.
@@deborahwager5883 How wonderful! I'll warn you that is both very upsetting and academic--perhaps a deadly combination... Shawn the Book Maniac and Ros and Brian etc. did a reading of it and interviewed me for it. You can search for it on my channel if you're interested.
@@HannahsBooks Thanks for the warning. But if ever in my life the word "academic" doesn't scare me, it's right now. It seems everything I'm reading is academic! And the point of studying history (especially if your area is something like disability and race) is finding the disturbing parts. Bless you for your work in that! I'll for sure watch that video when I have a minute.
@deborahwager5883 ♥️
I imagine Simon Schama's history of Britain could be rather good. I'm a big fan of his TV series on all sorts of history, I tend to look at his books and think, that's a big commitment! Michael Wood's TV series on England was great too, centred on Kibworth in Leicestershire an instance of by focussing on a small place with a lot of documented history we got a general view of England's history.
Ooh, yes: Schama should go on my list! I very much enjoyed Michael Wood's documentary on Shakespeare and on the "Dark Ages"--and will absolutely look up in England one. Thank you very much.
Intersting reflection on Gatsby. I can see the comparison, but I always had the impression that he saw his attachment to her as genuine, even if it was likely shallow and not truely love. My point being that his attraction feels more like emotional obsession rather than a simple trophy which is how i percieve Trump. Granted, I've not read Gatsby since high school, so who knows if I'd feel different upon a reread (which has been something I've been wanting to do).
The discussion of Gatsby makes me think of the recent film Saltburn, which was not exactly a high brow work, but one that similarly dealt with someone obsessed with entering the realm of wealth and power. That may be a common trope in fiction, but it makes me want to reread Gatsby even more to think how it might have inspired the film or other works that have followed.
@@JoshsBookishVoyage I haven't seen Saltburn yet, but I want to. I keep hearing it compared to Brideshead Revisited, too.
Oh yes indeed! You're really right that Gatsby thought his feelings for Daisy were truly genuine (although Fitzgerald shows readers the limits of the depth of feeling)--and I think Daisy's response was emotional, too, even if she didn't feel actual love. Was she just wanting to be loved or maybe adored? Was she looking to be cared for more gently? Whichever, it seems quite different from what I see in the Trump marriage, where I can't quite figure out who is trying to trophy-wed whom.
Suggestions for British History??? *Mind Immediately Goes Blank* Actually, I don't think I've read a general overview... you at least have to choose a time frame! I think one of my entry drug books was Amanda Foreman's biography of Georgiana, which incorporates so much historical context. A little later in time is Our Tempestuous Day, also enjoyable. 🥰
I definitely know a fair bit about particular little pockets of time (and subject matter), but I have trouble with the larger historical context. Thank you so much for the recommendations!
Derrida making sense in French 🤣I just watched a Helene's Universe video about recent reads, and that helps my ear re-tune...but still very rusty!
What a great idea! I should try that out!
Before the strength and power of the Own Voices movement and deaf writers getting their own words and stories out, Leah Hager Cohen’s TRAIN GO SORRY and Oliver Sacks’ Seeing Voice provided a window for me into the the world of the deaf and their history in the US. Do you have a sense of how your students felt about those works? Did you read them and see contradictions or good representation and insight into their history and experience?
I didn’t realize there are two simultaneous Great Gatsby musicals going on right now. It must have entered public domain I’m guessing?
I’m seeing the Broadway production in two weeks and hope to reread it before I go. I’m drawn to the story, but most excited to see Jeremy Jordan, who I saw do Clyde in Bonnie and Clyde a decade plus ago. The lyricist is Kait Kerrigan, whose music I’ve loved for many years, especially her witty way with words and turn of phrase.
The other production I know has music by Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine. I really only know the song Dog Days of Summer, but it’s a beautiful and brilliant song.
This reminds me of a little more than 25 years ago two completely different musical productions of The Wild Party circled each other in NYC, both based on the narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March.
Oh yes! TRAIN GO SORRY is a book both David and I read right before I started teaching at Gallaudet. I was in the process of learning sign then, and really jealous of names like SOFIA (which Cohen describes basically as a brief unfolding of the hand). How funny that that particular description has stuck with me. At the time, I didn't think much of Sacks's book, mostly because I had just read his sources, but now I see how much it meant to people completely outside the community. I won't speak for my students right now, but let me think a little about that question.
@@HannahsBooks What meant the most to me about the Sacks book was the history that at the time wasn’t well known, that Nantucket at a time had so many families with death members that a whole sign language developed there that everyone knew just blew me away as a community response to disability. Why didn’t the world develop in that manner, it proves it could happen.
@@bookofdust The Martha’s Vineyard story is pretty amazing! Yes-a community response that includes people rather than isolating people!
Please let me know what you think of the Broadway Gatsby. Abe will be the sound mixer for the Florence and the Machine one in Boston!
@@HannahsBooks I got my question to pubic domain when CBS Sunday Morning a few days ago did a segment on it and used Great Gatsby as an example and talked about both shows and talked to FSF’s great granddaughter. You can find it here on RUclips to watch yourself. I’m very excited and starting the audiobook tomorrow.
I reread Gatsby almost every summer. I think I may skip this year (and possibly the next) to give me time to try and scrub the image of Trump and his Trophy out of my brain. Other than that, great video! 😂
Ha! So sorry to make that connection in your mind!
@@kevinrussell1144 You might be relieved to know that I don't have a sleek roadster! There are a lot of reasons why the Trump-Gatsby comparison isn't accurate, and one is definitely that he is more of a Tom than a Jay. Yet there is something very nouveau riche about DT's style, no? I think the way we as Americans think about class is so radically different now from what it was back in Fitzgerald's day. (As you probably know, I loved the "lovely voice" of Obama--and most of what he said, too--but I do hear your point.)
@@kevinrussell1144 Charleston roots! Wow! Most of my ancestors were small farmers. My grandfather finished third grade and paved roads. My grandmother finished eighth grade. They had six children, most of whom were not especially interested in college education. My father got two PhDs... He and my mother were very involved in the Civil Rights Movement, which was extremely different from their roots. And their commitment to social justice--even in the face of confusing or even appalling their family--shaped me profoundly.
@@kevinrussell1144 Lovely last line. We really should meet sometime. My maternal grandmother was also widowed very young-twice actually-and made a life for herself working in a department store. I think that experience of watching how she recreated her life and made it complete has become more and more important to me.
@kevinrussell1144 I do hope you won’t be disappointed! I talk about those shelves in my video called Behind the Scenes.