The BookTube Newbie Tag!

An introduction to my channel, packed to the rafters with rants!
My Instagram - joe_spivey_
No idioms were harmed in the making of this video
#books #booktube #booktubenewbietag

[@hoehoehello5736]

ok I was sold from the first 10 seconds ohmg, I am in love with you sir

[@antidelusionalpeeps]

I was only 3 seconds in the video and had to hit the subscribe button aha. I already love your personality, good luck with your channel!

[@JoeSpivey02]

Thanks for such lovely words. I’m glad it’s classed as entertainment!

[@hyacinthh6900]

:). Me too!

[@andreluissoriano]

Will definitely look forward to watching your videos. I have just recently gotten into classics myself (thanks to Orlando), and though I love my female booktubers like CarolineMarieReads who you also mentioned, it’s always nice to see another male booktuber for more diversity in tone. Welcome!

[@JoeSpivey02]

Thank you so much for your kind comments. I have plenty of videos planned for the next few months!

[@whatpageareyouon]

Ohhh, Steve is going to have a field day if/when/once he sees this haha. Welcome to booktube Joe, the 20min flew by! Feels like I’m just checking in with a friend. Looking forward to that Byron read-along/updates! I love Middlemarch too. 🤓 📚

[@JoeSpivey02]

Thanks! I'm glad to be of service. The Byron read-along may have to be brought forward :)

[@LauraRodriguez-Peace]

Welcome, Joe! Glad you are here. 😊 ☮️🧡📚

[@intovertedextrovert_08]

I understand...when you said- there is nobody else to talk to about book.

[@dipannitamazumder]

That intro was all i needed. Subscribing right now!

[@JoeSpivey02]

There are plenty more where that came from!

[@yenasung]

Welcome to booktube! You had me at bedfellows 😅 I love that you have the questions on an actual sheet of paper! Whistling! I do enjoy your gorgeously milky skin and vivacious off the cuff chitchat that I hope becomes more colorfully swear-heavy in future videos! Can’t wait to see what more bees there are in your bonnet.

[@JoeSpivey02]

Thanks for your very kind words! I'm afraid swearing would only get me knuckle rappings when the cameras are off :)

[@kristineherzog6570]

How wonderful, thank you for sharing. Love hearing and seeing you Teri ❤ Best to you on this journey. Hoping you'll share some of your paintings, I treasure the one I have.

[@deldevours]

Love it. Welcome to Booktube. I'm looking forward to watching more of your content.

[@JoeSpivey02]

There’s plenty to go around!

[@bookscrooksandhooks]

Welcome to Booktube! I look forward to more from you! Love the accent!

[@christopheroliver7589]

Hi Joe. Greetings to you from Mankato, Minnesota. Welcome!

[@EmmaBennetAuthor]

Hey! Welcome to Booktube. I hope you find lots of people to talk books with. I'm a romance writer and I've been on KZbin for well over a year now. Subscribed

[@JoeSpivey02]

Hi Emma! Thanks for the subscription - you’re hereby declared a founding member;) Romance doesn’t feature in my readerly routine as much as it ought to. What would be your recommendations for a complete layman in the genre?

[@EmmaBennetAuthor]

@@JoeSpivey02 hmmmm... I'd start with something with romantic elements and ease in! My books are full on romance!

[@saintdonoghue]

Hah! You're of course welcome at Hyde Cottage for wine & calzones any time - Frieda loves to scream at new people!

[@JoeSpivey02]

Thanks Steve! I'll be sure to pop across the pond mid-winter so as to get the full Bostonian experience, as well as seeing those diminished NE Patriots lose in terrific style!

[@kidus5431]

It's the Byron thumbnail that made me instantly subscribe. Welcome to booktube!

[@JoeSpivey02]

I’m happy to jump on the Byron-mania bandwagon. Welcome along for the ride!

[@sab8019]

Welcome to booktube!! Very excited for what you have in store for this channel (like the Byron read-along) ‼️

[@ChristcentredNaturalgee]

I love your personality.💝🙏🏾

[@butterflymagicwithhottea9291]

You have a delightful presence. Subscribing

[@MargaretPinard]

Watching just for the magnificent deployment of language. You're giving vibes of one of my favorite Classics-loving actor Booktubers 🤩know who i mean yet?

[@JoeSpivey02]

Thanks for the compliment! But I’ve no idea who you mean.

[@MargaretPinard]

@@JoeSpivey02His channel is called doomantidote!

[@andreluissoriano]

@@MargaretPinardthinking the same thing!

[@mildrumpus]

I really enjoyed your thoughtful responses to the questions. I learned about your channel after watching your livestream chats with Steve Donoghue. I just started my channel this week, so I am going through all the responses to the tags and you were at the top of the list. 😎📚👍

[@QueenOphiliaIII]

Im glad i found you! Its not always i find a booktuber with my kind of reading! I do love poetry, classical lit etc

[@readswithlauren]

OK, first question down and I'm already in love. Subscribing now haha

[@TheLillyLibrary]

Happy to have found your channel! ✨✨ Subscribed!

[@JessAwesome]

You are so charming, subbed. i love the way you speak.

[@JoeSpivey02]

Thank you for such a wonderful compliment! I tend to just put one word in front of the other 😉

[@OmnivorousReader]

It is endlessly mystifying when an author you ADORE raves about a work/author. You dash out to get the book and just can't find anything in it all all to enjoy. Very aggravating.

[@gabiocampos]

The most British channel

[@Readingsottovoce]

I subbed and look forward to seeing more vids. I also admire your talking speed 😊

[@RichardFarley1976]

Welcome to booktube Joe. Great content. I’m originally from Hull, village of Thorngumbald.

[@JoeSpivey02]

I’ve spent many a happy afternoon frolicking in those fields! My school was in between Preston and Hedon so I had a lot of friends in that area!

[@RichardFarley1976]

@@JoeSpivey02 was it South Holderness I went there

[@JoeSpivey02]

@@RichardFarley1976 it certainly was! At the rate that place is renovated it’s possible that we sat on the same toe-crushing science stools!

[@RichardFarley1976]

@@JoeSpivey02 indeed 😂😂

[@jamgart6880]

Oh hell. I’m officially 350 years old 😳 👵 😩 😂

[@thelefthandedreader6632]

This is a good one! I enjoyed this. 😂

[@TangibleReads]

Hi Joe. Welcome, you are off to a good start.

[@TheEndermanNestGPage]

You're giving such Torry energy XD

[@JoeSpivey02]

That’s always the accusation levelled at me. I may dress like them and talk like them but I definitely do not think like them! 😂

[@KDbooks]

Love a good ol’ Byron book

[@BookTimewithElvis]

Jolly good to have you on board it seems I am late to the party with my welcome but welcome anyway :)

[@jwhend49]

Welcome to booktubeland. I've been a reader all my life, but that hasn't stopped me from enjoying Martin Amis, especially London Fields and The Information.

[@JoeSpivey02]

Its so nice to hear of others enjoying Amis too! The so-called London Trilogy will forever hold a place in my heart as the series that taught me reading could and ought to be fun. I’d be very interested to know if your perspective on some of Amis’ wry silliness and humour have had altering effects as you’ve matured. Certainly the older I get the sillier he gets!

[@areadersalmanacwithceleste1366]

Welcome to BookTube! I also have a channel. I’m looking forward to watching your videos and hope you have fun here. 😊

[@LadyJaneBooks]

Hello! Welcome to booktube! 🎉

[@BeyondTheBlurb]

AWESOME 😎 ... You (among others) inspired us to start our own channel 🎉.

[@JoeSpivey02]

My word! That’s far too kind. Happy hunting here on KZbin!

[@ObscureBookAdventures]

Welcome to booktube. Yes sitting in a Chesterfield chair with a good book, smoking a cigar and a whiskey nearby. That's the life ;-)

[@jscottphillips503]

Welcome to the community! Looks like you've hit the ground running!

[@JoeSpivey02]

Thanks so much! I’m delighted by the welcome you’ve all given me :)

[@shaunholt]

Welcome to booktube! Subbed. Looks like we read similar books, a lot of classics. I'm having something of an identity crisis because I don't like about 90% of what I read. I think it's overrated trash, nothing good about it. Which doesn't make for interesting book reviews just saying I quit after 25 pages. I need to find more books I enjoy, but I'm such a picky reader. I think most books aren't very good or not remarkable enough to recommend.

[@JoeSpivey02]

I certainly know what you mean as regards some works that litter the canon. And yet some ardent traditionalists would chastise us for being critical of some stuff that got onto syllabuses because of (brace yourself) mere happenstance! You should read whatever pleases you, be that shopping lists or road signs and never let anybody tell you that 'lesser known' or 'lesser regarded' works shouldn't afford you pleasure!

[@forestcabinreads]

Welcome to booktube!! im also new!!

[@Tankstalksfilm]

Love the video man. I subbed and you convinced me to actually post on this account

[@JoeSpivey02]

If I can help somebody as I pass along...

[@Tankstalksfilm]

@@JoeSpivey02 just posted my first video

[@kjmav10135]

Judging from the cover of the Penguin Edition, you actually look a bit like Lord Byron!

[@JoeSpivey02]

That’s the finest compliment I’ll ever receive!

[@melissamybubbles6139]

Good luck with your channel.

[@RichardJSchwartz]

Good luck on your channel

[@user-xm9pk1xt5j]

That is exactly what I read 20 years ago when I was 18.

[@novelideea]

Welcome

[@JamieAdStories]

You come across so well.

[@NicolesBookishNook]

Welcome to BookTube!

[@Myrecommends]

Welcome!

[@JWCat757]

Lord Byron woot woot!

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Nike here, the goddess of victory. You called?

[@materiagrix]

Welcome to BookTube.

[@jennyyeh4730]

@carolynmariereads an illustration commission of Martin Amis 🙏🙏

[@heathergregg9975]

Reader, Indeeder, Napoleonic delusional, messianic complex media mogul, adamantine eve-angelist for books, mercantile schmercantile... but enough about me, welcome to the Booktube experience.

[@jesuisravi]

Bellow can be a very funny guy when he wants to be. And he can also be great . Read Seize the Day and maybe you will begin to get why he is Amis' favorite.

[@JoeSpivey02]

I like The Adventures of Augie March for its descriptive ingenuity and power. Seize the Day didn't do too much for me though. I can see why it was that Amis took to his writing so much. I don't think it was an admiration on Amis' part but rather a successful man he could roughly imitate.

[@jesuisravi]

Yes, that's possibe.@@JoeSpivey02

[@gramatprieks]

Good luck with building your Napoleonic booktubish empire 🥂 🤞 I'm very fond of your personality, reading IS cool!! Do you have goodreads account, it would be nice to see what you are reading also there :)

[@JoeSpivey02]

Thanks for such lovely praise! Unfortunately I don’t have a goodreads account but all of my recent reads are posted as stories on my Instagram!

[@heathereads]

Like. Subscribed

[@twostepClutch]

Byron is a G

[@katjack2780]

Sirrah -- It will have to be rapiers at dawn over your slur on Master Shakespeare, my literary god. Should you survive, I look forward to conversing with you on all manner of things -- tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited.

[@JoeSpivey02]

If Shakespeare’s a literary god then I’m a militant atheist! In all seriousness, lots of his plays are excellent and most of the sonnets never fail to quench! Messrs Pope and Byron make for helpful anti-inflammatory agents against bardolatry ;)

[@katjack2780]

I think I have a greater appreciation of Shakespeare because I "discovered" him myself and read all of his works before being force-fed a play or two in school. When I first tried to read Alexander Pope, he just left me cold. But then I remembered some excellent advice from my favorite English teacher, who said that if you are reading something that is considered a work of art and you're just not getting it, put it aside. You're not ready for it. Come back to it at a later date. So Mr. Pope and I didn't meet again until I took a course called 'The Age of Satire" and fell in love with all of that mob. As a matter of fact, I'm now going to back to tackle Pope's translation of The IIliad and The Odyssey. Re Byron" yes, he's a megawatt charmer with a vivid "voice." No wonder he was practically irresistible to one and all.

[@girl...124]

Are you british?

[@rayanakesty]

you chose the worst niche for world domination purposes

[@thegardenoftere]

welcome to the booktube community Joe 😊

[@MichaelRomeoTalksBooks]

Welcome to BookTube.