Thirty Books on Thursday

[@FollowSmoke]

I love this! Thirty on Thursday should be every week. Be our reading cartographer, Steve

[@socaltoobie8984]

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[@noarelax]

yes please!

[@crypsid]

This is always such a bittersweet time of the year to be a viewer of your channel Steve. On the one hand you make some of my favourite videos to watch around now, just random bookish thoughts that still seem different from your regular videos; but then, you're also going to go fishing in a few days..

[@karenpotter3015]

Great list! Love “Thursday Thirties” Don’t worry! Your videos are never too long…

[@gaildoughty6799]

Agreed

[@HannahsBooks]

What a fascinating list! I am always so happy to have your bookish company for a while.

[@amandatrask9695]

Just found your channel. I am feeling a bit old. It feels like I read some of the anniversary books just a few years ago. Glad to see Ursula Le Guin on your list. She was my first sci fi author. I first read one of her books in high school. Some of your other books are on my favorites list, and now I have some additions for my TBR.

[@michaelchandler490]

Always enjoyable Steve. Ended up downloading three of the books you showed.

[@RobinSongReads]

"On the internet everything is forever. Except for old articles of mine," Steve says as I shake my fist at the heavens. Still can't find your blog post about the 17 books you carried in a small chest around the world, but I guess some mysteries must remain unsolved.

[@Unpotted]

We’d like to know without watching all 5,000+ KZbin videos. 😝

[@ThatReadingGuy28]

I’ve actually found it, using an archive web link. It’s from 2011 which includes his best of lists from 2011 as well.

[@Unpotted]

@ Do you want to share the link or title or some way to find it? The Wayback Machine wasn’t helpful. Thanks! 😺✌️

[@michaelibk418]

My Eyes are so bad, I read Dirty Books on Thursday which wouldn’t surprise me because you do read all kinds of books. Maybe for another time.

[@chazgross4519]

I really enjoyed Joseph Wood Krutch's biography of Dr Johnson which I read 20 years ago. Ive never read any of his nature writings but you have inspired me as I also am fascinated by desert ecology.

[@famillioner]

No 19K Q & A?

[@ThatReadingGuy28]

Looks like Stephen Becker’s novels are all available on Kindle Unlimited.

[@StephaniePatterson-jb5it]

I have an e-copy of a book called "Backward Ran Sentences" It's a collection of the writing of Wolcott Gibbs. I read it years ago. I remember a profile of Father Divine. I thought the writing was quite good, but it's true that the name will mean little to people.The New Yorker centennial year is 1925 and I'm anxious to see how that is noted in the magazine itself, but I'd also like to see them publish collections of some of the older (and dead) New Yorker writers.

[@saintdonoghue]

Oh my, that's right - their centennial year! I'm sure they'll lavishly reprint selections from the writers of that century ... provided those writers are female, non-straight, and/or non-white. James Thurber will hardly get mentioned. Wolcott Gibbs won't be mentioned at all.

[@Unpotted]

@@saintdonoghue 🤦‍♂️

[@StephaniePatterson-jb5it]

@@saintdonoghue I hope you’re wrong. They have released three volumes-1940s, 1950s and 1960s-in the past. I guess we’ll see.

[@Unpotted]

Re: Boy Culture I found City of Night, by John Rechy in a thrift store. What a fascinating story! I’ll keep an eye out for Boy Culture, now I know the subject matter. 😺✌️

[@nickpiccirilli4278]

The Lathe of Heaven was easily one of the best books I read this year