Tag de France Booktube Tag

This tag is an ode to the Tour de France and overall, the Summer of Sport. This fantastic tag was created by Gavin ‪@GenreBooks23‬ I encourage you to check out his video and his channel.
Here is the original tag: • Tag de France - An Ori...
I was tagged by Kelly ‪@booksimnotreading‬
Please tell me what you think of the books mentioned in this tag or how you would answer these questions!
Prompts:
1. "Le Grand Depart" - A memorable preface, introduction or opening line.
2. "Maillot Vert" - A book under 150 pages.
3. "King of the Mountains" - A book that you persevered with, and are glad that you did.
4. "Maillot Jaune" - A book where "yellow" is prominent.
5. "Lantern Rouge" - A book you were late to.
6. "Hors catégorie" - What's the hardest book that you've read (or failed to read).
7. Endurance - Your favourite series.
8. "Champs-Élysées" - Your favourite "Paris" novel.
9. Lance Armstrong- Have you ever cheated to get to the finish quicker?
10. “L’equipe” - Tag some others of the BookTube team!
I tag:
‪@Michelelynnreads‬
‪@tahlia__nerds_out‬
Ann ‪@insearchofwonder‬
Books mentioned in this video:
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: bookshop.org/a...
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: bookshop.org/a...
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: bookshop.org/a...
Celine by Peter Heller: bookshop.org/a...
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand: bookshop.org/a...
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes: bookshop.org/a...
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon: bookshop.org/a...
Dragonfly in Amber (#2) by Diana Gabaldon: bookshop.org/a...
Voyager (#3) by Diana Gabaldon: bookshop.org/a...
Drums of Autumn (#4) by Diana Gabaldon: bookshop.org/a...
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[@insearchofwonder]

Thanks for the tag! This will be fun.

[@SueJacksonDE]

You're welcome - enjoy!

[@kfp10596]

Love this tag. I had to laugh cause I love the Outlander series. I am on book 9. They only get better!!!!

[@SueJacksonDE]

Wow, book 9! I did mention it a lot in this video - ha ha. Good to know they keep getting better!

[@GenreBooks23]

Hi, thanks for doing the tag! Heart of Darkness is a stone cold classic, but I have never even heard of that avocado film until now!

[@SueJacksonDE]

ha ha I'm not surprised! Definitely not an Oscar-winner lol We enjoyed our "bad movie nights" back then. Thanks for creating this fun tag!

[@CliffsDarkGems]

Great responses to the tag! A Tale Of Two Cities is my favorite Dickens novel. Some of those B movies were so bad, you just had to laugh! 🤣 I enjoyed the movie Seabiscuit. Hope you are having a great August.

[@SueJacksonDE]

Yes! That's why we enjoyed our bad movie nights! I am definitely due for a reread of A Tale of Two Cities :)

[@tahlia__nerds_out]

2:04 I love that you still have your high school copy of "A Tale of Two Cities"! Will you reread that copy? It might be interesting to look back at your high school impressions of the work from an adult's POV. 2:59 I love seeing the high school books come out! ❤ I've never read "Heart of Darkness", but the theme makes me think of the theme behind "The Lord of the Flies". 9:51 Wow. I designed a knit baby blanket pattern with my eyes closed while in bed (migraines + recovery from spinal fusion), but I can't even imagine trying to write that way... it requires so much more focus to write a story, and I'm astonished that she could read her writing later. I just looked up the title on Libby; thanks for mentioning it! I've heard of the title, but for some reason thought it was a fiction book vs a nonfiction. That is now going on my tbr! Great video, and thanks for the tag!

[@SueJacksonDE]

Good point, Tahlia - Heart if Darkness does have similarities to Lord of the Flies (only with adults rather than kids). Wow, I'm impressed you were able to design that blanket pattern that way! Yes, Laura Hillenbrand is absolutely amazing. She also wrote Unbroken, which is a stunning nonfiction book about a POW, though by the time she wrote that, she had been able to see some experts and try some treatments (thanks to the money she earned with Seabiscuit which was a huge hit and then adapted to a movie), so she was in better shape. YT doesn't always like links, so I will include a link to her story in a separate comment (just in case).

[@SueJacksonDE]

Tahlia - Here is an essay Laura Hillenbrand wrote for the New Yorker about ME/CFS called "A Sudden Illness": www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/07/07/a-sudden-illness

[@bethannebruninga-socolar]

"Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death"???? I may need to watch that, lol.

[@bethannebruninga-socolar]

I'm having a hard time thinking of books I've read set in Paris or France, though I'm sure there have been at least a few! The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue was set partly in Paris and was really lovely. :)

[@SueJacksonDE]

ha ha Bethanne! Oh, yeah, it's a classic. We used to have a blast on those bad movie nights.

[@SueJacksonDE]

@@bethannebruninga-socolar Oh, I forgot about that one! You're right.

[@bethannebruninga-socolar]

@@SueJacksonDE Bad movie nights with friends sounds like the best time. 💞

[@BookZealots]

did you tell the library there were 23 pages missing from their book? I hope they got their money back from the publisher or whomever they bought the book from. I've met Diana Gabaldon and she's very witty. I have a friend who will sometimes read the end of a book before deciding to buy a book. LOL Ugh, I cannot listen to audio books at regular speed, it is so stinking slow. It makes me a little anxious because it's abnormally slow.

[@SueJacksonDE]

I did tell the library, but it was an old paperback, so the pages probably came out somewhere along the way with so many readers! Wow, I would love to meet Diana Gabaldon - sounds great! You sound just like my son re: audio books! He feels the same way. We used to always listen to audios on our long cross-country road trips with our sons, but when he was an older teen, he said just what you did! If I sped up audio books, I would definitely miss something lol - I usually listen while doing stuff around the house or walking.

[@BookZealots]

@@SueJacksonDE is your son an auditory learner? My youngest is. If I listen to an audiobook, I have to follow along with the book. And I read faster than the audio, which is another reason it needs to be sped up. ahhhhh 🤗 I love that you all listened to audiobooks while traveling too. We made two car moves across the country and listened to a lot of audiobooks. Prometheus also became very good at being co-pilot for map directions. 😂 Now he's directionally challenged like his dad. How did that happen? 🤷‍♀ Thank you for sharing that. It brought back a lot of good memories. Love you Sue. I hope you have a great week.

[@SueJacksonDE]

@@BookZealots I'm not sure. He's an avid reader and did very well in school, even after he got so sick, so probably reading/writing is his learning style but I;m not sure. He loves reading epic fantasies so much that he's working on writing a fantasy novel now :) Ah, those road trip memories are the best!! We had such great times together as a family and saw so many amazing places. I admit, I miss those days! And both of our sons are severely directionally-challenged and can't read a map! By the time they started driving, GPS was around. Glad you had some good road trip memories, too!