The "I'll Get Around To It Later" Tag

[@jaffacakes7557]

Hi Robert, we'd love to have a tour of your book collection at some point!

[@RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p]

I'm working on it. I have to sharpen some of my tech skills first.

[@shordiiepoo]

Love this, added a few to my TBR for the upcoming year ❤️

[@AlansReads]

This fits really nicely with the Read What You Own Challenge that I'm participating in at the moment, so I accept your tag! My video to follow in due course. Thank you.

[@rebeccalefler4506]

A Tale of Two Cities was also my favorite, thank you for the recommendations.

[@cheyenneguest4495]

Oh this is a fun way to categorize the tbr list and talk about books you want to read or haven't read to others.

[@larrycarr4562]

My problem is well over 100 unread books on my kindle, and invariably I add a book or two weekly. I’ll get around to that Pynchon Mason & Dixon one of these days…

[@larrycarr4562]

I just checked Goodreads I’ve consumed 97 ebks this yr (and a handful of printed books)… it’s a moving target 🎯

[@martiansmarigolds413]

Nickholas Nickleby play was fantastic and for those not lucky enough to see it in person was filmed for PBS. IM SURE Its out there in the universe someplace to watch. Some great books there.

[@jonathanbrewer7072]

Thank you.

[@jonathanbrewer7072]

Check out AN Wilson's analysis of Dickens. I love Great Expectations.

[@bookishbgg]

I love Wendell Berry's The Peace of Wild Things collection so much, it's a favorite and I've reread it many times. So that was a pleasant surprise to see! I'd love to hear your review once you get to it, if that's something you feel comfortable doing. At the very least I'd be interested to hear which poems you appreciate the most or which ones speak to you.

[@EileenSchmitt-r8d]

Ahhh the aspirational reads. I have a shelf of those collected "for later." I saw the Nicholas Nickelby play in the 80s in Adelaide South Australia. I bought the book to read too.

[@patriciafeehan7732]

It should be TBR To be read.

[@jonathanbrewer7072]

Doesn't it break your heart the abridged versions ? Scandalous.

[@JoeSpivey02]

This was a fascinating tag that produced LOADS of interesting books that I wish cluttered my shelves. 'The Club' looks particularly significant! I might even do this tag on my own channel in the next few days.

[@TimeTravelReads]

The Club sounds good. I'll have to add it to my British history list. I was thinking about the question of what books you've got on a TBR but have been putting off. For me, the answer would include too many to mention. I have probably hundreds of books on my several lists and it's hard to pick which ones I'd like to read next.

[@marnasorensen988]

I read All the King's Men in the early 1960's when we all thought it couldn't possibly get any worse....

[@J0zB]

I may be impertinent but I’ll risk it. Would you be willing to share your syllabus for your ancient Roman history course? It’s fascinating but I’ve been a reading magpie and would appreciate a more systematic approach. Thank for such thoughtful videos.

[@chrisbeveridge3066]

every day I amuse myself reading authors without any care for their learning, looking for their style, not their subject. Just as I seek the company of some famous mind, not to have him teach me, but to come to know him. he who speaks true can speak as foolishly as he who speaks false; for we are concerned with the manner not the matter of the speech. to consider the form as much as the substance , the advocate as much as the cause... so teaches my master

[@herothebard]

You can use the @ and user name on KZbin to tag people in the description

[@Richard.HistoryLit]

_Nicholas Nickleby_ is in some ways his most comprehensible novel. Because it has an obviously discernible plot that emerges quite early on. And is there a hero and heroine?? well, I guess there might be!

[@CionMohler]

There’s not enough space to list the books on my tbr. I guess David Copperfield is my favorite Dickens book. I’ve certainly read it more times than others although I love Bleak House and Great Expectations as well.

[@lollaughs09]

hi robert! quick question. i’m 25 and have been reading my whole life. i go through reading slumps a lot and have found that the only way to get out of them is to re read Young adult books i read as a child/teen. i think the nostalgia reminds me why i fell in love with reading in the first place. also i read a lot of nonfiction/theory so i think my slumps are caused mostly by me getting down about the state of the world. well my question is…i know that reading something is better than not reading at all. but do you have any recommendations for books to help someone get out of a slump? or maybe novels you find easy to ready to help you sway back into the joy of reading? i’m getting a bit too old for YA and i just want to read things that feel good. i enjoy all book genres. love your videos! xx

[@ASmile-xk1ef]

I did the same thing as you for a while. YA is great to get out of a reading slump until all the stories feel like they are alike. These days I read short story collections to get out of a slump. They work like a charm.

[@RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p]

Try reading books about the joys of reading books. Alan Jacobs' "The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction" and "Breaking Bread with The Dead", are short little masterpieces designed to inspire and encourage a love of reading. I would also recommend A.G. Sertillanges' "The Intellectual Life". It's a classic, though at first you might not think it's relevant to you but if you stick with it, I think you'll find it truly inspiring.

[@lollaughs09]

@@RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p thank you! i look forward to reading these!

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

Hi Robert. I’m a big fan of Dickens too, and David Copperfield is one of my two favorites. Like you, I have not yet read Nicholas Nickleby. I’d like to read Leo Damrosch’s book, The Club. It’s funny: a book on my shelves that I still haven’t gotten to is his younger brother David Damrosch’s book, Around the World in 80 Books. Nice job with the tag, Robert. I can try to explain to you how to tag people in your description box if you’d like. 😊

[@RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p]

Hi Pat, I wasn't aware Damrosch had a brother who is also an author. This is one of the many things I like about BookTube, discovering new authors, and their siblings hahaha. And, yes, if you have the time, I'd appreciate some info on tagging.

[@RobertGReaderofBooks-r3p]

Hi Pat, I have an email account just for BookTube. You can always contact me there.

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@ I believe both Damrosch brothers teach at Harvard. I’m at the gym now, but when I get home to my laptop, I’ll explain tagging. It’s easy once you know what to do. Basically, though, all you need to do is to list the channels you want to tag in the description box of your video with the “@“ sign in front of the channel name. If you do that, a dropdown menu will show up from KZbin, and you can select the exact channel that you’ve picked. Then that channel will get a notification that you have tagged them.

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@ will do. I’ll send you an email when I get home from the gym.

[@RandoCommando24]

I just read All The King's Men, and didn't much care for it. I really wanted to like it, but if you are expecting a novel about a corrupt and powerful politician or politics in general, you will find it a frustrating read. The "Boss" character is barely in the novel, instead you spend most of the time with the narrator Jack Burden, a hired investigator of the Boss. Burden is a very on the nose name, reading his stream of conscious ramblings was a boring chore. I think Faulkner was much better at this technique, and maybe that's part of why I didn't like AotKM, I read "The Hamlet" right before and it deals with very similar themes and setting, but in a more compelling and interesting way, imo.