A Friday Reads for 8 November 2024

[@dylanmcmahon4902]

Good to see you again, Steve. Your videos are a much needed reprieve.

[@Jasper-Antonelli]

It’s amazing to see your facial expressions at the beginning and then see them at the end. It shows how much joy reading and talking about reading can bring

[@Shellyish]

Steve, I’m enormously glad to see you back.

[@GedDonohoe]

Just when I started worrying we wouldn't see you again..glad your back.

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

So good to hear from you, Steve. Thank you.

[@shawnstevens9819]

Happy to see you back, Steve! Thank you.

[@anneworks]

Contrary to my habit, I checked KZbin multiple times a day to see of you had posted yet. Relieved to find a video. Hang in there, talking about books will always be a good thing to do.

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Thanks for checking in Steve. Missed you.

[@wesleyasbell1813]

So glad you're back Steve. I know it's selfish but with everything going on and the uncertainty in the air, I've missed the comforting regularity of your videos.

[@Lake-Reads]

so glad you're back!

[@joshuacreboreads]

I’m happy to hear from you, Steve.

[@StevePartridge]

Very reassuring to see you.

[@JanetWertman]

Thank you for this.

[@constancecampbell4610]

It’s good to see you, Steve. Take good care. 🤗💕

[@backawayfromthedonkey]

I love watching your videos, you're like a beacon in an insane world.

[@marke6638]

Alistair MacClean! There is a blast from the past! Thank you for the recommendation. I am read a lot more authors from the past and am enjoying them. The old authors have a bit more zip. Look forward to getting reacquainted. 😊

[@karenpotter3015]

So glad you are back! Have been thinking about you and Frieda and checking in every day. Really pushing myself along right now, just to retrieve some normalcy in my personal life. So, thank you for this video. Understand the difficulty… Do take care!

[@alexandrahinrichsen6772]

So good to see you!

[@nasar8480]

I was waiting to hear from you, Steve.

[@m.i.miller8008]

Glad you are back... your knowledge and videos are wonderful and have Blessed me so much. Thank you.

[@ErynnWilson]

Glad to see you both. I imagine Frieda feels down as well. My Pug, Lizzy, picks up on how I feel so easily.

[@jobuckley2999]

My favorite video series from your channel was when you went through each of your Penguin Classic paperbacks and discussed them. I learned quite a bit about classics and I developed a taste for reading them. Hint.

[@Fruitjellyy]

Missed you both

[@NP-Hunt]

I was really happy to see this video appear in my feed. I hope you have reasons to be in better spirits soon, and hopefully we'll see a lot more of you in the remainder of the year (& beyond, if all goes well in your regeneration period). Thanks as always.

[@ingridfitz5677]

I’m so glad to see you Steve. I just finished Cleopatra: A Life. You recommended it in the past. I loved it. Even though my knowledge of the time period is not that great the book was still riveting like a drama.

[@pinkroket]

Thank you, your Friday Reads videos are some of my favorite.

[@StephaniePatterson-jb5it]

I feel better now.

[@tomorrowsclassic505]

Good to hear from you, Steve! I'm reading Juliet Gardiner's 'Wartime, Britain 1939-1945' and really loving it

[@BooklessPete]

Take care, good sir.

[@krzysamm7095]

He’s back yeah. The best advice I got from you was look for a translation that you can read and understand as there will be some differences but the meaning will still come through.

[@PortStiggs]

Good to see you Steve

[@kurtreichenbaugh6284]

Nice to see another upload and reading update. For nonfiction November I just finished The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir. I'd read The Plantagenets by Dan Jones earlier this year. Enjoyed both very much.

[@geesehoward6614]

Thanks for making videos.

[@barbaramoignard6082]

Steve, it's good to see you back.

[@Contraband_Pigments]

Thank you, Steve. I've been checking for a new upload from you every day. Your presence is much appreciated, especially right now.

[@tedrastlin7972]

Thank you Steve, appreciate it.

[@juliemartin6101]

My dad flew the B-24's and B-25's in the WWII Pacific. I don't know much about the Flaying Fortress - this book sounds like a good way to learn something.

[@BenBell-1809]

Thank you for this video Steve

[@audreyh7892]

Nice to see you. It was a great joy after much anger and disappointment.

[@allancowley2254]

It's good to see you Steve. I thought the Shakespeare "mystery" had been solved long ago - Francis Bacon invented AI and pumped out the plays using Chateth GPT.

[@bjminton2698]

Santorini was a fun read! Lunar looks interesting. Thank you!

[@denotic]

Reading has been my refuge this week too, thank you for the video, Steve.

[@alejandrosilvasolis582]

Miss you, Steve. Thanks!

[@MarvinReads]

We missed you

[@westonloveswords]

Going to read another one for the gays, likely this evening--Glitterland, by Alexis Hall. Never read anything by him, but his books seem to be quite easy and appealing to most romance readers. Glad to see you, Steve.

[@joemac6280]

Halfway through the first Conan book based on your recommendation! So fun! Instantly ordered "The Complete Chronicles of Conan". 944 pages!

[@jeffmanjarrez1087]

Good to see you back Steve. I always miss you when you are away. The time change has slowed my reading. Though, I recently finished "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," which I enjoyed a lot. Now I am on to "The Thin Man." Be well.

[@jamiebbooks]

I have the excerpt of the new Stormlight Archive book from Netgalley, that is next in my reading queue for this weekend, ~300 pages long. Depending on how much I remember once I start reading it, I may do a reread next year of the series before I get the full version of the new one. The rest of my Netgalley queue, for today anyway while we're snowed in, is The Woman Behind the Door, by Roddy Doyle, Midnight and Blue, by Ian Rankin, Desolation Code by Graham Brown and Clive Cussler, and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey. I've added the Philosophy of Translation to my radar for next year.

[@randomperson-l2k]

glad to see you're back. for some reason i didn't think you'd be reading Brandon Sanderson, i should've known better, you do read everything after all... I've been reading the preview chapters released by the publisher, and it feels like the characters are speaking like modern people instead of fantasy characters, hopefully the story is still good...

[@charlesrettberg3907]

Good to see you back at it!

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Always look forward to “ something for the gays” ❤Much needed distraction from news media.

[@suzanscottartistobserver7225]

So good to see you and hear your voice today. This was such a difficult week for many of us. In times like these the need for the arts, literature, music, poetry and visual art are needed more than ever now. They offer us inspiration, solace and comfort in difficult days. And your humor, let's not forget that! Very necessary in difficult times. Thank you for what you do 🙏

[@tripp8833]

Unfortunately , none of those will help if we enter a dictatorship.

[@ingridfitz5677]

@@suzanscottartistobserver7225 I agree. While I am on a news blackout indefinitely my books, music and art are comforting and can help me through right now. The only media for me at the moment are my, as Steve would say , “ imaginary Booktube friends” . Take care Booktube friends ☺️

[@michaelwood185]

Glad to see you things are bleak right now but now more than ever we need a place to go to forget about things for a while

[@Ben-O25]

Thanks for powering through for us Steve. I've done a bit of jumping around to find the book that can best distract me and so far the most successful escapism has been The Comedians by Kliph Nesteroff.

[@gavinmcintosh5716]

Just saying thank you Steve. 😊

[@gaildoughty6799]

Nice to see you on a Friday evening, Steve.

[@JoelSwagman]

Good to see you back, Steve.

[@cwel1978]

Glad you are back good to see you and Frieda in this depressing time. Don't give up I know it hard. 😢

[@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn]

You looked a little subdued at the beginning of the video, Steve. I hope all is well with you. We missed you on the Dr. November livestream. Maybe next Friday if you feel up to coming on with us. Take care.

[@mediumjohnsilver]

Sharing what I’ve been reading, I just finished reading _Mathematics and the Imagination_ (1940) by Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. It’s a book I’ve had since I was a teenager, and although I had read a few chapters over the years, this was my first cover-to-cover read through. It was interesting. This is the book that coined the words “googol” and “googolplex”. Before that, I read another perennial shelf dweller - _Island in the Sky_ (1944) by Ernest K. Gann. That was surprisingly good.

[@virginiafernandes336]

❤

[@Lokster71]

Nice to see you Steve. Some interesting sounding books there, although I'll probably skip the Zane Grey. It's going well this month. I'm concentrating on Remembrance Reads. I'm having a fascinating time with Disputed Earth: Geology and Trench Warfare on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Peter Doyle.

[@GinoSeconnino]

Hi Steve, I’ve started reading “Hanging Ned Kelly” about Elijah Upjohn who was an Australian executioner. Grizzly stuff, but I’m fascinated by colonial Australian histories at the moment

[@fjuran1]

Wind and Truth is the end of the first ark of a 10 book series.

[@PattiReadsALot]

I’m so happy to see you ❤❤I’ve thought about you a lot this week. Even though I’m three weeks behind on videos, I certainly know how like minded citizens would feel about this past week and devastation (although completely expected) is still mentally draining. Thank you for soldiering on for your imaginary Booktube friends ❤❤

[@greycinza]

Or is it "devastating" because it was unexpected? I get the impression Kamala was as convinced as Hillary was, that she was going to win.

[@PattiReadsALot]

@ perhaps! I couldn’t help feeling crushed even though I was certain he would prevail

[@rumham7275]

I’m reading the Decameron in penguin classic form and loving it. A fire upon the deep and some Philip Roth also mixed in this week

[@LouiseReader]

Hi Steve, nice to see you, even if subdued by the events of the week. I do have an astronomy obsessive on my Christmas list, and I will get him a copy of Lunar. I went to a fabulous second book sale this week and one of the books in the two huge bags that I hauled home was a Penguin Classics of H.G Wells' A Short History of the World. I just recently listened to War of the Worlds for the first time and really loved it. I enjoyed Wells' writing, so I was intrigued by this nonfiction, which I'd never heard of. Now I'm wondering what this 100 year old book has for the modern reader, and what you think of it. I'm currently most of the way through Shannon Bowring's The Road to Dalton, and enjoying it as a small town tableau. I'm hoping to pick up the sequel pretty soon. And I've finally started The Immortal Life of Henrietta Sacks, which has been on my TBR for literally ever, but nonficitionnovember got me over the starting line.

[@jamesholder13]

The highlight of my reading week was my reread of She Heads Into the Wilderness by Anne Marie Macari. I am very likely going to make an effort to collect the rest of her work.

[@laura0104]

Glad to see you again Steve and Frieda! I'm reading an essay collection by Umberto Eco. I don't know if it was published in English. It's called De la estupidez a la locura.

[@lindseyreads5450]

I’m glad to hear from you. It’s been such a hard week. I’ve tried to bury myself in books and many hours spent on the wonderful Booktube community.

[@sherrillfair3601]

Thank you for posting. This is good for my mental health. My fighting is going on.

[@greycinza]

Kamala? Is that you???

[@franciscolealgonzalez1333]

Thank you so much for coming back. We know that you need some breaks from time to time specially now that the world is in mourning. Say hi to little Frieda!

[@Lulubobble]

Thanks for getting through this. It’s all so awful, although you predicted the outcome, it’s still horrible. Hug Frieda. ❤

[@angelica351a]

at least we can read until Trump defunds the libraries.

[@greycinza]

Has he ever threatened that or are you just pulling that out of your ass?

[@ffridiejr]

My first Steve video under facisim.

[@greycinza]

Learn to spell...

[@laura0104]

@@greycinza Why are you here?

[@greycinza]

​@@laura0104 Check your assumptions.

[@j75099]

Do you mean the kind of fascism where the government used private companies to cancel and censor their political opponents or the kind that forced people to take an experimental vaccine or lose their employment? Is that kind of fascism you mean?

[@nickpiccirilli4278]

​​@@j75099the kind where you get away with trying to overturn an election you lost.

[@ShawnMorey-sx7wm]

Forget the president reject, you and your readership are better than that.