I’m in the early pages of A Man Without Qualities this year. Love your March of the Mammoth videos. You have such good reading tastes! I’m also thinking I should get around to Infinite Jest or Middlemarch this year.
That book sounds so intriguing-- I hope you're enjoying the experience so far! I am feeling overdue to reread both IJ and Middlemarch... one month in a year isn't enough to get to all the great long books out there!
Have you heard of Olga Tokarczuk's "The Books of Jacob"? I think it's right up your alley! Just found your channel and so far, I'm loving it, I'm a fellow enjoyer of mammoth books lol
What fun dogs! The Weird looks fantastic. I’ve never heard of it. Audio is the way to go with Ulysses . My husband is from Dublin so I’m used to hearing the words and cadence, but I’ve read Ulysses and listened to it and I understood much more from the audio. It was written almost as if it were to be read aloud. I’m starting the Brontë bio by Juliet Barker and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
Nice choices-- that Bronte biography is one of my favourite mammoths! That is so great to have a Dubliner around to help you out with interpreting Joyce!
Love seeing your picks for the month, I hope you have all the luck! I’m going to try and read all that heaven allows: a rock hudson biography, 1Q84, and priory of the orange tree :)
So great to see you back 🤗 & those dogs!!😍💕 What a selection cant wait to hear your check ins.. that edition of Genji is beautiful & The Weird has been on my radar too. Im going for The Brothers Karamazov.. due to my pace it'll prolly be the only mammoth. Happy reading!! 💥🤓😊
I'm glad you enjoyed the cameo from my guest stars haha! I found The Brothers Karamazov to be quite the page-turner and it is one of the best mammoths there is. I'm really looking forward to trying the new Michael Katz translation when it is released. Have fun! :)
@@bigalbooksforever Thanks! It had me @ the Preface lol- it was brilliant.. & has been since the opening.. v impressed with the McDuff translation.. im one of those that did *not* get on with C&Punishment (P&V translation.. which i didn't particularly like), so im delighted its workin out! : )
Those pugs are adorable. Ulysses is a great novel. I listened to the audiobook years ago and I to reread the text some day. Great mammoths. The Weird anthology looks pretty good.
Yay for March! I need to buckle down and decide on my mammoths. Also I love your pugs! They look just like my old pug Pugsley who had a little snout on her too. ❤
your dogs are so precious!! i always love seeing what you're reading/planning on reading. hope you do an update at the end of the month! i'm thinking of attempting Paula Giddings's biography of Ida B. Wells "Ida: A Sword Among Lions." always been intimidated by the size so it's sat on my shelf for a few years
I'm glad you appreciated their cameo-- they would not let me film in the room without them! My experience has been the longer the biography the better, so that sounds like an excellent choice! :)
The pug snores really added to the video’s ambience 😄 I’m reading two mammoths (started in February) - A True Novel by Minae Mizumura and Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder (nonfiction)! Bloodlands is only 500 or so pages, but they’re BIG pages 😄 Really enjoying my mammoths so far! I usually don’t read such large books (especially not at the same time), and I’m loving it.
Also, I read Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy last year and adored it. Mirror and the Light is maybe a little unnecessarily long, but it was a beautiful conclusion to the story. Hope you love it!
Mirror and the Light is off to a great start so far! And those are excellent choices. I agree with you that sometimes mammoths are not just determined by page count... font size and page formatting can make a huge impact in size!
One way to read Ulysses is to just - well - read it. Some parts are easy some might never make sense. There is a recording available which I loved as the voices were Irish. Love your other choices as well. Your dogs are fun! What do they like reading? 😊 I hope you come back to Booktube I so miss your videos! I have just finished War and Peace which was a definite Mammoth and a half so I am having a break before I decide what to read next in mammoth terms. 💐🌾
Fair enough-- getting through War and Peace is an awesome accomplishment! My pugs are not fans of reading-- they like to be the centre of attention so they don't appreciate when people are reading books! An Irish audio rendition sounds like a good way to go!
I completely agree with you on Ulysses. I only sort of liked Portrait of an Artist. I have only gotten through Episode 4 in Ulysses. You will enjoy the Tale of the Genji. I loved it's atmosphere (especially in the last part of the book). I also loved the poetry
Good luck with your mammoths! I just want to make it through "Paris: the Novel" by Edward Rutherford. My brother gifted it to me at Christmas and I want to be able to tell him I read it but it's an intimidating 809 pages. But maybe with this readathon I can make it happen!
Funnily enough, my choice this year was to finally read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. I read Ulysses last year and want to see the original characters/settings and such. Best of luck!
The only way I got through big books is audio. On February 28th I finished Deluge by Stephen Markley A Fine Balance They took 2 months via audio. I’ve started Ulysses on audio as part of the #irishreadathon
It's called "Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses" and you can find it on most of the major podcast streaming apps (e.g. Google Podcasts, Spotify, Apple, etc) :}
Oooo Thanks😊 for the suggestion! I just ordered the Weird anthology!
I’m in the early pages of A Man Without Qualities this year. Love your March of the Mammoth videos. You have such good reading tastes! I’m also thinking I should get around to Infinite Jest or Middlemarch this year.
That book sounds so intriguing-- I hope you're enjoying the experience so far! I am feeling overdue to reread both IJ and Middlemarch... one month in a year isn't enough to get to all the great long books out there!
Great TBR! I would love to hear your reading updates. Don’t be a stranger! 💛😃🦣
Thanks! I need to learn from your ways about how to make weekly posts :}
Have you heard of Olga Tokarczuk's "The Books of Jacob"? I think it's right up your alley! Just found your channel and so far, I'm loving it, I'm a fellow enjoyer of mammoth books lol
I'm thinking I'm going to finally read Middlemarch by George Elliot.
Middlemarch in March is a PERFECT choice!
@@bigalbooksforever update: I finished it and freakin loved it.
What fun dogs!
The Weird looks fantastic. I’ve never heard of it.
Audio is the way to go with Ulysses . My husband is from Dublin so I’m used to hearing the words and cadence, but I’ve read Ulysses and listened to it and I understood much more from the audio. It was written almost as if it were to be read aloud.
I’m starting the Brontë bio by Juliet Barker and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
Nice choices-- that Bronte biography is one of my favourite mammoths! That is so great to have a Dubliner around to help you out with interpreting Joyce!
Love seeing your picks for the month, I hope you have all the luck! I’m going to try and read all that heaven allows: a rock hudson biography, 1Q84, and priory of the orange tree :)
That is a great mix of genres! And thank you-- I will need as much luck as I can get haha :)
I love your dogs! You can do it Alex! Have fun 😊
Off to a good start so far on Day 1! :)
So great to see you back 🤗 & those dogs!!😍💕 What a selection cant wait to hear your check ins.. that edition of Genji is beautiful & The Weird has been on my radar too. Im going for The Brothers Karamazov.. due to my pace it'll prolly be the only mammoth. Happy reading!! 💥🤓😊
I'm glad you enjoyed the cameo from my guest stars haha! I found The Brothers Karamazov to be quite the page-turner and it is one of the best mammoths there is. I'm really looking forward to trying the new Michael Katz translation when it is released. Have fun! :)
@@bigalbooksforever Thanks! It had me @ the Preface lol- it was brilliant.. & has been since the opening.. v impressed with the McDuff translation.. im one of those that did *not* get on with C&Punishment (P&V translation.. which i didn't particularly like), so im delighted its workin out! : )
Those pugs are adorable. Ulysses is a great novel. I listened to the audiobook years ago and I to reread the text some day. Great mammoths. The Weird anthology looks pretty good.
The Weird looks interesting!
Yay for March! I need to buckle down and decide on my mammoths. Also I love your pugs! They look just like my old pug Pugsley who had a little snout on her too. ❤
Deciding is always the hard part! Pug faces are the greatest :}
your dogs are so precious!! i always love seeing what you're reading/planning on reading. hope you do an update at the end of the month! i'm thinking of attempting Paula Giddings's biography of Ida B. Wells "Ida: A Sword Among Lions." always been intimidated by the size so it's sat on my shelf for a few years
I'm glad you appreciated their cameo-- they would not let me film in the room without them! My experience has been the longer the biography the better, so that sounds like an excellent choice! :)
The pug snores really added to the video’s ambience 😄 I’m reading two mammoths (started in February) - A True Novel by Minae Mizumura and Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder (nonfiction)! Bloodlands is only 500 or so pages, but they’re BIG pages 😄 Really enjoying my mammoths so far! I usually don’t read such large books (especially not at the same time), and I’m loving it.
Also, I read Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy last year and adored it. Mirror and the Light is maybe a little unnecessarily long, but it was a beautiful conclusion to the story. Hope you love it!
Mirror and the Light is off to a great start so far! And those are excellent choices. I agree with you that sometimes mammoths are not just determined by page count... font size and page formatting can make a huge impact in size!
One way to read Ulysses is to just - well - read it. Some parts are easy some might never make sense. There is a recording available which I loved as the voices were Irish. Love your other choices as well. Your dogs are fun! What do they like reading? 😊
I hope you come back to Booktube I so miss your videos! I have just finished War and Peace which was a definite Mammoth and a half so I am having a break before I decide what to read next in mammoth terms. 💐🌾
Fair enough-- getting through War and Peace is an awesome accomplishment! My pugs are not fans of reading-- they like to be the centre of attention so they don't appreciate when people are reading books! An Irish audio rendition sounds like a good way to go!
Intrigued that you have The Tale of Genji on your list! Look forward to hearing your thoughts about it.
I know people seem to have really mixed reactions to it, so I am curious to see how it goes!
Ulysses is a mammoth...because it crushes you. Forever.
I completely agree with you on Ulysses. I only sort of liked Portrait of an Artist. I have only gotten through Episode 4 in Ulysses. You will enjoy the Tale of the Genji. I loved it's atmosphere (especially in the last part of the book). I also loved the poetry
Ooh that's good to know the ending is worth pushing through for! I'm excited :)
The doggos 😍
Good luck with your mammoths! I just want to make it through "Paris: the Novel" by Edward Rutherford. My brother gifted it to me at Christmas and I want to be able to tell him I read it but it's an intimidating 809 pages. But maybe with this readathon I can make it happen!
Thank you-- I shall need it! Also an immersive long book about Paris sounds fantastic!
That’s a great book! You’re in for a great month!
I've read ER's SARUM. It was fabulous. I look forward to reading more of his stories. 📖
Funnily enough, my choice this year was to finally read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. I read Ulysses last year and want to see the original characters/settings and such. Best of luck!
Both Homeric epics in one month sounds like the best time ever! :)
The Weird: Start with John Leman's "Window" page 543.
Good to know!!!
The only way I got through big books is audio. On February 28th I finished
Deluge by Stephen Markley
A Fine Balance
They took 2 months via audio.
I’ve started Ulysses on audio as part of the #irishreadathon
Audio can be a game changer for sure! What did you think of Deluge? I heard such great things about Ohio but I haven't tried Markley out yet.
Where can I find the Shakespeare and Company podcast for Ulysses?
It's called "Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses" and you can find it on most of the major podcast streaming apps (e.g. Google Podcasts, Spotify, Apple, etc) :}
@@bigalbooksforever thank you so much! ❤️