Reader's Profile Tag 😄📚💜

[@Curious-Cat]

That dinner party sounds like my kind of crowd ^^ Thanks for the tag 💛

[@ellenmadebookclub]

I'm sure we would both feel right at home! 😂🍻

[@books_and_bocadillos]

Me too! I was going to comment the same thing 🙃😉

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@books_and_bocadillos You’re both welcome! 😊

[@TheKatBite]

This was really fun to watch! Thanks so much for doing this tag, and thanks for tagging me ♥Really enjoyed hearing your answers ... the phone book - surprised that's not more popular given how many copies they used to print 🤔😂

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@TheKatBite Thank you! Haha right? It should be a page turner! I look forward to hearing your answers 😊

[@books_and_bocadillos]

The phone book 😂...thanks for doing the tag. It was alot of fun watching your video and hearing your answers 🤗

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@books_and_bocadillos Haha 😂 I couldn’t think of any! I’m glad you enjoyed 😊💜 Thank you for being here!

[@RDsLibrary]

Really interesting to hear your answers. I agree about what makes a good book, particularly about not having to great at everything. It's nice if it does certain things, but it's hard to specify what because you only know it when you experience it. I like your dinner party guests. I bet they have some fascinating perspectives on the stories they're part of, and it would be nice to hear from characters who don't get much of the limelight. Your desert island picks cover all the bases of practicality, empathy, entertainment, losing yourself and remembering where you come from, so they sound like great choices. Nice to see The Da Vinci Code getting some love. I remember reading all four of his early books and being thoroughly entertained. I've never read Stephen King, either, but would like to try his books. I think one of his novellas became The Shawshank Redemption and that was a really good film. I've heard the Swedish phone book is quite the read. Spoiler alert but there's a great twist after the Gustavsson entries :)

[@ellenmadebookclub]

Thank you for this very thoughtful comment! 😊 It is very hard to specify what makes a good book! It's that it-factor, the feeling you get of a book. And that's usually the thing that stays with me afterward as well, I don't remember the plots and details very well, but rather the feeling of the experience. Haha the dinner party seems very popular, everyone wants to join! I think we would all have a good time with those characters. It would be a night of retellings :) I have several Dan Brown books too, they weren't all fantastic but definitely entertaining! Yes, I've heard that. I'm also intrigued by 11/22/63. Like I said, never say never ^^ Haha oh no! Well I wasn't going to read it anyway, so the spoiler is fine by me, but please think of other people reading the comments ;)

[@MyMessyBookshelf]

Your dinner party sounds delightful and I would want an invitation 😂 I am like you… I hate to say never. I agree with you on The Da Vinci Code! I think I stayed up for 24 hours when I read that! And thank you for the tag!!

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@MyMessyBookshelf You are of course very welcome to join! There seems to be a whole bunch of people joining already haha 😂 Good vibes! I look forward to hearing your answers on this one! 😊

[@LibrariesandLattes]

Another fun tag video!! The Ocean At the End of the Lane is on my TBR, it definitely sounds interesting! I would love to be a fly on the wall at your dinner party, I love a good open minded, underdog, weird kind of vibe (maybe because I relate a little too much) 😂 Love that Piranesi kept getting mentioned, haha it’s totally deserved!! And I can’t do horror either, all the movies terrify me but for some reason I’m kind of interested in some horror novels, haha but who knows if I could actually handle it 😬

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@LibrariesandLattes Thank you! I feel like I’m just saying the same books over and over again but sometimes it’s all I got haha 😂 You would be very welcome to join our dinner party, there are already a bunch of people coming along so you’d fit right in 😊 Piranesi is a new favorite for sure! No horror messes me up, I’m already scared of everything, I don’t need any new ideas 😂 You could try Marina to start, it wasn’t too bad, but still had some creepy moments! It’s all I got! I’ve heard Kingfisher’s books are good too, and kind of funny.

[@subhareadsbooks]

This is such a fun tag and I loved your answers! I've been wanting to try Neil Gaimin. Did you finish the Harry Potter Series? I'm sure that the books after are longer?!

[@ellenmadebookclub]

Thank you so much! It is a fun tag, definitely do it if you feel so inclined! 😊 Yes, I finished the series, and the fifth book is the longest one. It depends on format and things, how many pages each book has, but mine match each other and that's definitely the thickest one! I want to read more of Gaiman's books too, since one of them is a favorite of mine, although it doesn't feel as exciting anymore considering the allegations against him.

[@sueysbookbanter]

Such fun answers. Seriously I shouldn't watch yours before I do it myself because I just want to agree with everything, lol! Ah, I'm so excited to re-read Piranese for book club coming up sometime this next year. It's going to be so fun to discuss, yes? Stephen King does write all sorts of books that aren't scary, so go for it! I can't think who/what I "won't" read either... off to think hard about this one...

[@ellenmadebookclub]

Haha I'm glad you enjoyed! 😄 I'm sure you'll think of something though! Piranesi is a great book club read, so many things to look at and interpret - or just enjoy the story as is! I loved it!

[@awebofstories]

I read The Ocean at the End of the Lane last year and absolutely loved it!

[@ellenmadebookclub]

That makes me so happy! 😄 I'm not much of a re-reader, but that is one of the few books I would really like to read again.

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

I found a penguin classics edition of The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson and added it to my wishlist. Sounds so cozy and I love flying adventures. I think I read the Da Vinci Code in one sitting. Stephen King also wrote Shawshank Redemption a realist novella it's great.

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary Oh lovely! It’s been so long since I read it, it was written as a sort of geography textbook for children so it was probably in school sometime. But it’s a classic for sure! Loved the Da Vinci code, everything I wanted in a book! Right! See I knew I should never say never! At least not without doing some good (or at least some!) research first 😂 Thanks for watching! 💜

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

What a wonderful tag! I would like to come to your dinner party with the fictional characters. Thank you very much for tagging me. I will look forward to doing this one. 🥰

[@ellenmadebookclub]

You are very welcome to the dinner party! We'd have a great time I'm sure 😄 I'm thinking there would be a band of hobbits playing later in the evening! I look forward to hearing your answers! For once I managed to tag you haha! 😄

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@@ellenmadebookclub yes!! I will do this one next. Thank you again! 😊

[@itsmimiduong]

Oh I absolutely love this flag actually! So I think I'll definitely do it 🤩 Except I'll be struggling to figure who I'd actually want to meet and have dinner with because.... 💀introvert here... just thinking an imaginary meeting with people is enough to make me feel like NOT want to do this tag??? HAHA. For the question about what books to bring when stranded on an island... I've heard this prompt multiple times but it didn't occur to me to bring something for survival 😂 I just thought of the longest book I can read that I can enjoy or books that is a "cheat" because it's so long 😂 I agree so much with what you think about making a good book. Except I think for me... I need it to be what I want during the time of reading it. Eg. something humorous when I want something that is fun!

[@ellenmadebookclub]

Please do! I'd love to hear your answers! Honestly, same with the dinner party haha! I don't see myself interacting with everyone though, as much as sipping my drink and observing and listening to everyone else's shenanigans! And then when someone inevitably becomes drunk and sad, they'll come and sit by me and tell me about their secrets and life struggles ^^ You could do the question that way too! Just say which ones you would like to bring together to watch! 😄 Absolutely agree! It can depend so much on your mood, of course! Doesn't matter how good the book is, if I'm not in the right frame of mind for it. It's hard to know in advance sometimes though! Which I guess is the whole struggle of reading haha

[@BonnieNicoleWrites]

Yesss I will never read It! It is TOO MUCH for me! I would definitely read your book btw. Love strong female characters!

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@BonnieNicoleWrites Horrifying!!! Thank you! 😄

[@Bryndisdaugtherofgunnar]

This is a fun tag 😊 I wish I could say I've never read the phonebook 😂😂 I look forward to doing this tag, although it won't be until mid/late August.

[@ellenmadebookclub]

Not cover to cover I hope!? 😂 I will wait until mid/late August! ^^ I hope you're enjoying your vacation of rest and reading!

[@Bryndisdaugtherofgunnar]

@ellenmadebookclub I was a weird child, and yes, read it from cover to cover. Also some encyclopedias 😜

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@Bryndisdaugtherofgunnar Oh no! I don’t know whether to laugh or cry! 😂 I hope you enjoyed them at least! I like you even more now! 😂💜

[@Bryndisdaugtherofgunnar]

@@ellenmadebookclub 😜😊

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@Bryndisdaugtherofgunnar Haha I can’t tell if you’re messing with me or not! 😂

[@BeyondBooks-wt5il]

My attempt at this tag will post tomorrow - LOL! I won't read "It" either - or watch the movie.

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@BeyondBooks-wt5il I can’t wait! 😃 No, don’t! I remember hiding behind a chair in a summer cabin we were renting for the summer, I was so scared. Absolutely horrifying.

[@BeyondBooks-wt5il]

​@@ellenmadebookclubOH, no! That's not fun!