Counting the Days Tag

#booktube #Christian #books #reading #tag #nonfiction #historybooks
tagged by ‪@GenreBooks23‬ and ‪@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk‬
creators: ‪@ToReadersItMayConcern‬ and ‪@ProseAndPetticoats‬
Prompts: What is a book that exites you because of its...
1. . . cover
2. . . author
3. . . premise
4. . . style
5. . . influence
6. . .emotional weight
7. . . sense of humour
8. . . challenge or difficulty
9. . . TAG YOU'RE IT!
‪@CandlewickLibrary‬
‪@faithbooks7906‬
‪@kellireadsalot‬
‪@Eldertalk‬
‪@greenstickcottage‬
‪@HamsavahiniVajraasthra‬
‪@angieandthegreatworld‬
If you want to do this tag and I didn't tag you, please help yourself.
Books mentioned:
1. Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen and Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes
2. Controlled Thermonuclear Reactions by Samuel S. Glasstone and Ralph H. Lovberg and The Great Bridge by David McCullough
3. American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips and Prisoner of the State by Zhao Ziyang
4. Inside the Third Reich Memoirs by Albert Speer and My Dearest Friend edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor
5. First In Afghanistan by Gary C. Schroen and Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
6. Vietnam by Max Hastings and The Holocaust by Laurence Rees
7. Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger and Ignition! by John D. Clark
8.Controlled Thermonuclear Reactions by Samuel S. Glasstone and Ralph H. Lovberg and The Gulag Archipelago vol. 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Aww, how kind of you guys. Thanks 🥰 I'm glad you joined our second tag!

[@BookZealots]

Thank you for being so lovely. And we do your tags because they are worth doing. 🤗 keep up the great work. You are an inspiration. ~Erion

[@SueJacksonDE]

This is a fun tag! I hadn't heard about it yet, and it has some unique prompts. Clearly, you two have been doing some light reading - ha ha (WWI, WWII, nuclear war, gulags, etc.).

[@BookZealots]

LOL Those are all unread books. But I do happen to be reading a WW2 book at the moment. I look forward to your books if you choose to do the tag.

[@ToReadersItMayConcern]

Phenomenal selections throughout (the emphasis on history is especially nice). Thank you so much for joining in on the tag!

[@BookZealots]

Thank you for creating a good tag. I'm glad you noticed we did lean towards history. (a few science books). You're the only one to have commented on this. 👍 I appreciate your content and if it hadn't been for the first tag, I don't know how long it would have been for youtube to bring our channels together. ~Erion

[@kellireadsalot]

Thanks for tagging me! What an “explosive” list of books! 😉

[@BookZealots]

LOL you're right. And I am sure yours will be more pleasant and lighthearted, which is one of the reasons I tagged you. 🤗💗

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Some heavy books there! Heavy water to carry! Certainly not boring books.

[@BookZealots]

Lots of history, hopefully not presented in a dry/boring way. Thank you for tagging us.

[@CandlewickLibrary]

Thanks for the tag. This looks like a fun one! I enjoyed hearing the answers from both of you!

[@BookZealots]

the creators are awesome and this is the second tag we've participated in that they've made. I look forward to seeing your books if you decide to do it. 😁

[@greenstickcottage]

Wow, this one's a harrd one, but you both came up with intriguing picks.

[@BookZealots]

I was thinking about you today! Thank you for dropping in. How are you doing? You haven't posted in awhile. I've missed you.

[@Eldertalk]

That's an ominous pile of books you two are getting excited about! Thanks for tagging me. I think of all those books I'm more likely to read the one about Lafayette because I can use a little more humor in my life.

[@BookZealots]

Definitely not a pile of books for humour. I hope you find some laughter and joy. 🤗

[@P.EnglishLiterature]

This is a nice tag to jump on. Lovely to see your chosen books. Those questions are fun too. Haha.

[@BookZealots]

Hello Peter~ How are you doing? So good to see you. I currently have your video of Akure Book Club in a tab on my computer. 🤗 I'm at the part with you on the couch talking about bringing it altogether and people participating and talking about books. Well done. Very impressive. mwah 😘 ~Erion

[@P.EnglishLiterature]

@@BookZealots Aw aw. To know that you watched it all that long to that section is amazing 😅😅I mean, it's a long video and I was scared most people might not reached it half before saying goodbye. You are awesome to reached that length. I'm impressed. 😄

[@BookZealots]

@@P.EnglishLiterature I'm still watching. I wouldn't stop at the best part. LOL It's not just Nigeria that people aren't reading. That guy with the mask was kind of scary. Why did he have a mask? I was curious about looking up book clubs around me. I think the public library has one. Do you have public libraries?

[@P.EnglishLiterature]

@@BookZealots Yes, there are public libraries here but they don't host book club meetings. I have searched my city and couldn't find one so, I thought to myself "why not create one at the absence of one?" You know, and yeah, we did it. We will be having another edition this week's Saturday on the 27th, Most of the members have read the chosen books but I haven't yet. I plan starting tomorrow, I have a lot of books to read myself, adding this to it looks like a lot. Haha. But I will get to it surely as the organizer, I can't be left behind.

[@P.EnglishLiterature]

@@BookZealots As to the guy on mask, I don't know 🤣🤣But he is found of wearing mask to events. More like his one style I think.

[@tahlia__nerds_out]

I love all the history books in this tag. I have yet to read any of David McCullough's work, but I have heard great things and have a few of his books on my tbr. I look forward to doing the buddy-read with you for "My Dearest Friend"!

[@BookZealots]

McCullough does not disappoint. There's a McCullough readalong starting next month with one of his smaller books. The books are being read in publication order. If you can you should join in. I am also looking forward to our buddy read. I told my son, "I'm already planning my tbr for 2025! LOL Isn't everyone?

[@tahlia__nerds_out]

@@BookZealots which McCullough book is being started in August? That sounds like it could be a fun readalong. Historathon makes the year seem like it's flying by; even though we're still solidly in Q3, it feels like we're already a hop, skip, and a jump away from Q4, with 2025 not being far behind. Not that I'm pulling the string; I'm enjoying this quarter. I need to make sure I write down on my developing 2025 tbr list that we have our buddy read, so that I don't forget about it!

[@BookZealots]

@@tahlia__nerds_out The first book for the readalong is The Johnstown Flood. @eldertalks is the host. She has an announcement video and a leisurely calendar for the reading plan. Participants can jump in with whichever books they're interested in or read all or one. I pulled My Dearest Friend out from its spot on the top shelf and put it on another shelf facing out so I won't forget. 😁 But I do also have a 2025 tbr excel spreadsheet started. The year certainly is flying. I think next year I'm going to do Historathon differently. I have come to realize I do not like secular prehistory. And not a big fan of the middle ages either. But get me into quarter 3 and 4 and I can't read fast enough for all of the books I have. LOL And often life interrupts.

[@tahlia__nerds_out]

I’ll have to check out @eldertalks; thanks! It will be interesting seeing how you’ll do historathon next year to better fit your reading preferences. Is there a specific reason you choose an Excel spreadsheet over a Word document for a reading list? I usually associate Excel with things with sums (like tracking costs, where the Excel formulas can simplify things)… so I was wondering if there is some sort of reason that I haven’t considered before that would make Excel more convenient (or fun) for this purpose. I know that I have only scratched the surface of everything Excel can be used to do.

[@Littlebiglibrary]

For the cover I would pick The Amityville Horror the newest release with the House and the black and red cover. It just screams horror! I also would pick David McCullough book but I choose 1776. I love that cover. Interesting tag video -James

[@BookZealots]

James, do the tag. 👍👍

[@Littlebiglibrary]

​@@BookZealots I might. I'm not big on doing tags but this one looks fun

[@BookZealots]

@@Littlebiglibrary ditto that. A few years ago there were far too many tags going around and my son and I had decided we were going to concentrate on the books and not the tags. So it was nice to get a few this year that had more substance.

[@holt_arr]

Hi, hello and interesting tags and choices. I wish I had more to contribute, but I got nothin lol. I finished up the latest Riley Sager and it was alright, didn't hate it but didn't love it either. One big thing though, and this is real big for me, I started listening to the audio version of this during our afternoon walks. Spotify has audiobooks now so I figured I'd give it a shot and am hooked now! Might as well use something that I'm getting charged for anyway right? I'm doing the same thing now with the new Stephen King short stories book I'm reading now Thanks again for sharing and take care! See ya on the next one

[@BookZealots]

Hi, hello~ Sorry for the delay. KZbin had the comment blocked. That's great that you're able to listen to audiobooks while you're out walking. 👍 Riley Sager really falls flat for me. It's such a shame. Some of his books have a good premise, he just doesn't execute the stories well. I've read some of my uncle's book that is basically a memoir, but because I don't have spotify, I couldn't finish the book. LOL Happy reading and stay cool.

[@CourtneyReads]

I have Storm of Steel and have been wanting to read it for a while. I need to get to it. And yes, there are three volumes of The Gulag Archipelago. You can get a single volume abridgment as well. I'm hoping to read volume 3 this year.

[@BookZealots]

How long did it take you to read volumes one and two? I'm thinking I will slowly nibble on volume one so as not to be overwhelmed by the content.

[@CourtneyReads]

@@BookZealots I went through them slowly over a few months each. I did volume 1 in 2022 and volume 3 last year.

[@BookZealots]

@@CourtneyReads That sounds like a good pace. I think I'll do that as well. A three year project.