Booktube Community Joy and Gratitude Tag

[@MargaretPinard]

Letter of Note! How fun--I'm reading, fairly lackadaisically, Empire of Letters, and learning about the way of the letter in 18thc British Empire. Some of the funny silly facts I've put on my tiktok 😉

[@heathergregg9975]

Well, the british empire certainly spread families to the four winds and there were no phones.... I truly wonder what biographers and historians are going to use as source material for the 2020s as correspondence will have been through deleted emails and whatsapp etc. Completely different from sitting down to hold in your hands a handwritten letter with address headed notepaper for a home residence or hotel, scrawls and visible crossouts, doodled pictures in the margin.

[@HannahsBooks]

How lovely! Thank you for putting this together. Framed was just exceptional! I have read neither Saki nor Crompton, but really must pick them up. And I love your point that knowing people throughout the world makes us more connected to what is going on elsewhere. Love and Salt sounds wonderful.

[@heathergregg9975]

Both Richmal Crompton (a woman) and 'Saki' (a pen-name) wrote short stories, so easy to find out if you like their style. The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose introduced me to Saki via a story about Tobermory the Cat - who has been trained to talk. The Edwardian weekend party guests deeply patronise him as an animal until he starts repeating the private conversations he has overheard and who he has noticed with whom.... Richmal Crompton's William was written ages ago - about the 1950s so is also dated. But both have fine sense of the absurd.

[@HannahsBooks]

@@heathergregg9975 It looks like some of Crompton stories read by Jarvis and a few Saki stories read by Stephen Fry are available through my library!

[@heathergregg9975]

@@HannahsBooks oh go for it! Jarvis is super at doing the voices, both the vague, polite mother and the gruff little son who thirsts to be an Outlaw (in fact that's what his group of friends are called). Fry and Saki sounds like a perfect match, I shall make my own enquiries here - thanks for the tip!

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

Thank you so much for the lovely things that you’ve said about me, Heather, and thank you, too, for doing this tag. I so appreciate you! 🥰

[@heathergregg9975]

apologies for not saying your channel name right!

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@@heathergregg9975 oh no worries! People say it all kinds of different ways! I knew you meant me! 😉

[@heathergregg9975]

@@BookChatWithPat8668 That is very generous of you to say. You did make it easy to remember by having a rhyme in it - I should have remembered. I will just claim microphone brain - when the microphone goes live, the brain electricity dims - at least for me!

[@lindysmagpiereads]

I feel grounded in gratitude after watching this, Heather. Thank you for being here on booktube, celebrating the soul nourishment provided by art and literature.

[@heathergregg9975]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Hope you get time to do the tag too.

[@lindysmagpiereads]

@@heathergregg9975 Maybe, but no promises. Thanks for tagging me 🥰

[@heathergregg9975]

@@lindysmagpiereads oh yes, definitely only do if you have spare time and feel inspired to do it. And you may not - you make so much good content in your videos already that keeps you busy.

[@teresateri4803]

Absolutely love Saki.

[@heathergregg9975]

he's so little known or talked about, delighted that someone else gets his humour.

[@RaynorReadsStuff]

Hooray for the Saki fans 😁

[@RaynorReadsStuff]

Ooh Bandersnatch looks great. I’m certainly going to add that to my list. Yay for Saki. Truly one of my favourite short story writers. I adore Clovis. I really must read some Mapp and Lucia. Framed was my favourite new event of this year. I loved it. Thank you. Great recommendations and a fabulous video 😊

[@heathergregg9975]

I think you'll enjoy Mapp and Lucia - the Wordsworth Classics versions are unbelievably cheap but good - literally the price of a cup of tea for both books together. Since you enjoy humour, do do try your library for the Frank Muir book (or secondhand bookshops) - it's the mothership for humour. I think that's how I got to hear about Saki.

[@RaynorReadsStuff]

@@heathergregg9975 I will do that. I do love numerous books 😂

[@BeyondBooks-wt5il]

Hi, Heather! I was sent here by Fred. Nice channel - keep up the good work!

[@heathergregg9975]

I've just gone over the 500 subscribers mark so if you contributed to that - many thanks. This was a fun tag, I was going to suggest you might like to do it too - then saw your channel and that you did a similarly subject Tag last week "Booktube makes me happy". Coincidence!

[@BeyondBooks-wt5il]

@@heathergregg9975 Yes! I did subscribe to your channel and see that you are now over 500! Congratulations! I may do that tag, it is a good one!

[@book-ramble]

I saw the thumbnail and instantly thought... frumious!

[@heathergregg9975]

Do you mean the psychedelic band? knowledgeably asks the woman who just looked this up online 5 seconds ago.

[@book-ramble]

@@heathergregg9975 The beginning of Lewis Carrolls's 'Jabberwocky': 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsey were the borogroves And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjubb bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"

[@heathergregg9975]

@@book-ramble Ah, so the band was named after the poem. I saw the film of Jabberwocky and it was suitably surreal.

[@book-ramble]

@@heathergregg9975 Yes! That movie was out there for sure! Michael Palin, if I recall. Thanks.

[@MargaretPinard]

Oh, Enchanted April is SO marvelous. I will definitely reread that one.

[@heathergregg9975]

just such a great read

[@MargaretPinard]

Thank you for the tag, Heather! #YesShesReal

[@heathergregg9975]

ha ha - love the hashtag!