New Year's Day Reading and the New Year's Book Tag
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Happy New Year! (Filmed yesterday.)
Books Mentioned:
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Barsetshire series by Anthony Trollope
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Booktubers Mentioned:
Sarah @HardcoverHearts
Her #84ccrnyd video: • Then And Now Rereads |...
(And two booktubers I allude to but do not name: @Shellyish @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711)
Tag Questions:
1. How many books do you plan to read in 2024?
2. Name some books that you didn’t get to in 2023 but want to make a priority in 2024.
3. What genre do you want to read more of?
4. Name some non-book-related goals for 2024.
5. What’s a book you’ve had forever that you still need to read?
6. One word or phrase describing 2024: _____________
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So many thoughts are running through my mind as I listen to your anamneses.
Soren Kierkegaard’s statement, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
The Greek idea of “Mnemosyne epivátis” - our memories are passengers into our future.
And “dum spiro spero” - as long as I have breath I have hope- which I heard recently as “dum spiro spero, in posterum”. 🥰 posterum indicating a future with its root of posterity.
I don’t have a single word for you but wanted to share those thoughts.
I have loved my time with Cather this past year. And this year I have two more I’ll be reading by her. A short story collection and One of Ours.
Here is another virtual glass to cheers 🥂 to 2024 with a far away friend.❣️
"Our memories are passengers into our future"--what a lovely line! And I am eager to hear what you think of One of Ours, which I have not yet read.
Thank you, Hannah, for your honesty about the emotional territory of loss and grief. In my experience, nothing opens the heart to compassion like naturally arising grief. Recognizing it as it washes over us, allowing it move though us without resisting any past of the process, and, when it has fully tenderized and humanized us, releasing it just as fully.
Re: Willa Cather's books: I wonder if you have read An Owl on Every Post by Sanora Babb? I found it astonishing and beautiful, and I learned much from Babb's non-sappy memoir written as a novel.
Thank you for your very kind words about grief. As for Sanora Babb, I just discovered her when I ran across her Whose Names are Unknown in a little free library the other day, along with a biography of her. I am eager to read that novel this year, and will add An Owl on Every Post! Thank you.
A beautiful video, so happy to connect to your wonderful channel! Happy New Year!
I want to read both 84 Charing Cross Road, and Ethan Frome this year too.
Thank you so much! I think you'll love 84 Charing Cross Road. Such a lovely story of the connections we make via literature.
I think I speak for everybody in wanting a detailed video series on your fitness journey. I can fit you out with some swanky tracksuits if necessary! Joking aside, that was a wonderful video Hannah. Be sure to record your comments on any of Trollope's Barsetshire novels!
I suspect the track suits in my size are no longer swanky, but thank you anyway. You have been one of the latest Trollope lovers whose videos have made me prioritize the filling of this particular lacuna of mine.
I love your plans for the year and am just delighted every year that you also love your reading of 84 Charing Cross Road. Thank you and I wish you a happy New Year.❤
Happy New Year to you, too.
Contemplative and doable goals and interesting objectives. I'll be interested in seeing which local color books you choose. 😊
I am really looking forward to this project!
I read both 84 Charing Cross Road and The Uncommon Reader for the first time in 2023, and I found them both wonderful. I can see why they make great annual rereads. Being “alive to possibilities” is a great project. Since you mentioned watching the sun rise on the beach (it sounds lovely!), perhaps the word “dawn” could describe your new mindset? Or resurgence?
Oooh! That is a really nice idea!
Loved hearing about your New Years traditions. Best of luck with your goals for the new year.
🤓Thank you!
Best wishes with your reading choices in 2024. Hope you have some great ones.
Thank you! I hope you will, too!
Happy New Year, Hannah. The Portrait of a Lady is one of my favorite books. Hope you like it.
I am so excited to read it, finally!
After my husband died, my beautician posed a question. She asked how I wanted my hair styled that day in my new life. For me , my new life, is a very appropriate statement. Although I cherish my former or old life with my husband, I relish my new life.
This is amazing. You’ve helped me look at things from a slightly different angle than I ever had before. Thank you.
Alive to possibilities sounds like a good theme. The closest word I could find to that concept is vital, but that doesn't sound cozy enough. You helped me pick out an editing software before the new year. You've seen me comment as Melissa MyBubbles. I've started a channel. Thank you for your encouragement.
I am so glad you started a channel!!!
Alive to possibilities sounds just right. I loved hearing your traditions. I hope this year sends some sparks your way to lead you to some interesting places within and outside of books.
Thank you so much, Arianne. What a lovely wish that is!
Today is the one year anniversary of my grandmother's death and I've decided my theme of 2024 would be "independence", partly because she was so independent herself! I think my version of tabula rasa is less erasing and more smoothing over the foundation to build upon it, if that makes sense. Hopefully your 2024 is kind to you 🩵
I love that you are remembering your grandmother by committing to “independence”! And yes-“building” is just perfect. Thank you so much for that idea!
Happy New Year Hannah! I really like your description “alive to possibilities.” That’s how I’m feeling at the start of 2024. Moving to a new city has helped shake up some of my prior attachments to habits.
When you reflected on your period of being unable to focus on contemporary literary fiction, while retaining the ability to be absorbed in university press nonfiction, I was reminded of Eleanor Wachtel who went through a similar experience some years ago, when her father died. She said she only read nonfiction for a year and believed it was because there’s an emotional aspect tied to living fictional lives vicariously, or caring about characters (something like that), and she simply didn’t have the emotional capacity while experiencing the intense emotions of her own life.
Thank you so much, Lindy. Eleanor Wachtel is a new name for me and I just googled her--and I love her idea about it being just a bit too much to emotionally invest in fictional characters. Somehow reading about real people talking about their own lives (in memoirs) seems less personal to me as a reader. That must sound a bit strange...
@@HannahsBooks It doesn’t sound strange. Real people are more easily recognized as separate from ourselves when we are reading their experiences. There’s a built-in distance.
Eleanor Wachtel is beloved in Canada as the longtime host of a CBC radio program about books. She retired in 2023.
That is exactly what it feels like!@@lindysmagpiereads
I am so looking forward to our buddyread of Portrait of a Lady. Funnily enough Ethan Frome is also in my read soon pile.
Tabula rasa won't do at all. We are our memories. But being open to potential riches and joy in life is a good way to start 2024 and I will wish that for you.
I am eager to see what you think of Ethan Frome! Have you read Wharton before? If not, see if you can slip in something like The House of Mirth just to give you a fuller picture. (Wildly, since I filmed this, it appears we may get a dusting of snow this weekend-so Frome might be coming up soon!)
@@HannahsBooks I read and loved both Age of Innocence and House of Mirth some years ago but never got to EF.
Awe! I would love to meet you in person after so many ‘virtual’ chats.
♥️
Hi Hannah, I love what you said about adding to the past rather than re-starting. It made me think about layering transparencies or working only on the gaps. On the textile theme, when designing a repeating pattern there is a point where evaluation and experimentation leads to motifs being added, removed, rescaled or repositioned. Fundamentally the pattern is established but the gaps or the over-busy sections are being refined. As you know, this adding into or changing parts is common throughout various textile practices.
Sometimes embracing imperfection also works, such as how decorative darning will allow the old worn sock to change in the right places and contine on in its 'sockness'. I'm sure you'll come up with a better way to express this, but understanding the precious parts of the past and the now, while considering the pattern of a future seems rather wise indeed.
What a fantastic discussion, Angie, about patterns in textiles and in broader life. Just lovely. And please excuse my delay in responding.
Happy New Year Hannah. 84 Charing Cross Road is a delight. I'm glad you were able to spend time with your extended family in South Carolina, I guess it is the wrong time of year for crawdads singing.
Thank you. No singing crawdads, but tons of pelicans and dolphins and beautiful shells!
Hello, Hannah, and happy new year. RUclips has just introduced me to your channel, so I'm new here.
I have a suggestion that might help you toward achieving both your goal of getting more exercise this year and your desire to connect with the world around you:
Get a dog, preferably from a local shelter, and preferably one who isn't likely to be adopted otherwise (perhaps because it's too old, or too funny-looking, or too grouchy, or has a medical problem).
Speaking from experience, there's no better physical trainer than a mutt. And no better way to meet neighbors, discover parts of your neighborhood you never knew existed, become fascinated by the local flora and fauna, . . . . And you'll have the love and companionship of a fine dog (all dogs are fine) whose life you will have made worth living, possibly even saved.
I hope you'll think about it. And then do it.
(Of course most of these benefits accrue from actually taking the dog for walks, several times a day, every day.)
I‘ve been thinking about this for months! I think it might be exactly what I need (after I clear up a couple of minor complications). Thank you so much for this lovely encouragement.
Love and blessings to you, Hannah!
Thank you so much! Same to you.
Thank you!
Happy New Year! So glad you were able to spend time with friends and family. I used to love Trivial Pursuit. I love your "local color" reading plan. I can't wait to hear more about that. Here's to all the possibilities in 2024!
Thank you so much! I don't have as much of a reading plan as I had assumed I would by this point, but I keep jotting down ideas and pulling books off my shelves...
Your local color reading plans sounds fascinating. Looking forward to seeing what you read.
Thanks, Brian. Happy New Year.
Trivial pursuit does feel very 80’s ❤several books.. yep.. I have 3 on the go😊 happy new year!
Three seems like a double number! Some folks on booktube read ten times that number at once…
I hope your year is full of beauty. ❤
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I know that this will sound odd. I don’t have a word for you but I have a thought. After I lost my Dad a song that I learned in Girl Scouts 1977-1988 had the line “ Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the others gold” and in my heart I could hear my Dad saying “ Seek 0:26 new memories, experiences, forge new experiences but don’t forget the old ones. For the new ones are silver built upon the old ones made of gold.” I hope that helps in some small way.
This is lovely. Thank you, K.
You have such lovely new year’s traditions. ❤️🥳
Thank you, Doris! It was all very homey and peaceful this year, which felt just right.
84 Charing Cross is wonderful. The movie version is pretty good too. So glad you got to spend time with family and friends.
I love the movie and haven’t seen it in a while. Perhaps this weekend!
These are great plans! Happy New Year, Hannah!
Thank you so much! Happy New Year to you, too.
Happy New Year, Hannah. I'm happy you got to see your family. That's so important. I think if there were a 2024 version of Trivial Pursuit, I wouldn't do very well compared to the 80s.
I think you'll be happily surprised how quickly your stamina will improve as you start doing more activity. That has been my experience this past year. And I'm promising myself to read The Warden this year for the first time. Here's to moving forward in many ways.
Thank you so much for the encouragement about exercise! My flexibility is already making huge leaps forward. I hope you''ll love The Warden as much as I did. It really is a small quiet book compared to most Trollope--so if you're underwhelmed, go on to Barchester Towers (which I gather is much more like most of his other work). I can imagine you might love The Warden, though.
Happy New Year, Hannah.
Other viewers are coming up with much deeper thoughts than I could hope to as to a word for your life evolution. So I will just mention that I am reading Hanff's The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street and, while I don't adore it as much as 84, Charing Cross Road, it is a delight. Have you read it?
Now, are you absolutely dead set against Hannah's Fitness Channel, because I would totally watch!
Nina xo
Ha! Help me come up with a title. Hannah’s Bod instead of Hannah’s Books? Maybe I will make a video with a title like that in the spring if all is going well.
I too enjoyed Duchess of Bloomsbury Street-although it has been a long time since I read it. Perhaps I need to pick it up again!
Loved your plans and thoughts. I'm reading Edith Frome in Summer. I wanted a short read and decided I didn't mind reading a book that contrasted with the season 😅
Wishing you the very best for 2024 💛
Thank you, Katja! The idea of reading Ethan Frome during the summer sounds like it might be a very good idea if it is as bleak as I remember!
Wonderful video!
Thank you, James! Happy new year.
Hi Hannah and Happy New Year and thank you for your post and the New Year's Tags. You have got me thinking about what I want this year to be about. I loved the movie 84 Charing Cross Rd too and must read the book. Helene Hanff such an interesting woman and I really identify with her lifelong passion for English literature. Regarding Ethan Fromme, we think alike. I read it in high school and hated but 20 years later I read House of Mirth and loved it. And what I learned from the experience is that the first book you read by an author matters. Choose the wrong book and you may never go on to the second. Regarding early 20th century American regional writers I read Fidelity by Susan Glaspell about two years ago. The setting is the Midwest and I thought it was quite good. All the best to you and your family in the new year!
Thank you for the recommendation of Fidelity. I recently picked it up at a used bookshop-mostly because I have long loved her story “Jury of Her Peers.” I’m thrilled to hear your recommendation!
Happy New Year, Hannah!
Thank you so much, Antonia!
Hi Hannah,
Happy New Year!
Until today I had never heard of '84 Charing Cross Road', but it sounds like a great book to check out. A love story including an antiquarian bookstore, - that seems to be promising 😊. Thanks a lot for this recommendation. Greetings from cold wintery Germany.
It is such a lovely book-and very quick to read. If the idea of books about antiquarian bookstore doesn’t put you off, I suspect you will love Hanff! I would love to hear what you think.
I love antiquarian bookstores❤😊. Actually, I'm standing in front of one right now, about to enter after finishing this. comment (Haus der Bücher i.e. 'house of books' in Bremen) 😊
@@HannahsBooks Finished 84 Charing Cross last night. What a hilarious variation on the theme of "clash of civilisations", and a heart-warming story about the virtue of mutual support, sharing and caring for each other. And a lot of 'bookish' things in there as well. It was a perfect read for a rainy winter night in a rather austere hotel room 🙂 Thank you so much for this recommendation.
@@polyglotreading I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Hello Hanna, Good luck with your list! Especially Henry James, my least favourite author. I also hope to read Ethan Frome this year. In 2023 The Custom of the Country was one of the very best novels I have read for a long time. It completely changed my mind about Wharton and helped me to get a new perspective on The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth.
The Uncommon Reader is a little silly though. But I also read that in 2023, and enjoyed it, though it is much lighter than my usual thing.
Yes, Henry James was my least favorite author among a small handful I had in classes - later I tried the Penguin of his literary criticism and still, ew. _Custom of the Country_ will be my next Wharton but I don’t know when.
I thought I had read The Custom of the Country, but now I’m not certain. Maybe I need to read it again…. Yes, The Uncommon Reader is light reading, but I find it charming and soothing, especially this time of year. Thanks for your comment. Henry James seems like quite a marmite author!
@@davidnovakreadspoetry I hope you enjoy it. Undine Spragg is a character I will never forget, which really tells me what a great book it is.
Happy New Year. This was a wonderful video. Speaking of Trollope, I just finished Dr. Thorne, which was a delight.
I have heard so many people talk lovingly about the series. I can’t believe I haven’t read it yet!
I love those Hanff and Bennett books. Are you familiar with the local color writer Hardin Taliaferro? He wrote about the "Fishers River" area of North Carolina and I read his stories when doing historical research on the region.
No-that is a new author for me; excellent! Although my family is from SC and returned when I started highschool, I was born and grew up in NC-although the other side (SE vs NW). I’d love to hear about your research!
Happy New Year! I'm glad you were able to spend the holidays with family and cherished friends. You have some great goals in place. I hope to try my first Trollope this year. Would The Warden be a good entry point?
So sorry for my very late reply. Yes, I think The Warden is a great entry point. If you are underwhelmed, stick it out through Barchester Towers (which I hear is more like his usual style). My first Trollope was Rachel Ray, which is a stand-alone that I enjoyed but not as much as I enjoyed The Way We Live Now.
Great, thank you!
Local color literature has been such a rewarding way to expand my understanding of our country, our history and our people. I look forward to hear about your journey.
Thank you so much, Rachel. It is really rewarding to see how other people see the country--in different places as well as in different times, isn't it?
Have you ever considered reading books from Indian authors?
Definitely! Do you have some favorites to recommend?
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Ooh, I love this one!