Book lover has a grudge against Charles Dickens: 20 questions with a booktuber

If you feel like you want to even hear more about my bookish predilections, this is the video for you! I was tagged by @Grandpasbookclub & @ebonykenae to do the @jack_in_the_books 20 questions tag, and I now tag *you* dear viewer

people mentioned:
@jameskatie

books & authors:
the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante (2012-15)
the seasonal quartet by Ali Smith (2016-20)
A Tale of Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison (2019)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté (The Ethics of Ambiguity) by Simone de Beauvoir (1947)
Everybody by Olivia Laing (2020)
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson (2021)
the Iliad & the Odyssey by Homer (8th c. BCE)
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Motherhood by Sheila Heti (2018)
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (1973)
The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey (2023)
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles (2009)

other videos:

How many books in a series is too many?
Cliffhangers yes or no?
Hard back or paper back?
Favourite book?
Least favourite book?
Love triangles yes or no?
A book you couldn’t finish?
Current read?
Last book you recommended to someone?
Oldest book you’ve read?
Newest book you’ve read?
Favourite author?
Buying or borrowing books?
A book everyone liked and you didn’t?
Book mark or dog ear?
Book you’ve re-read the most?
Music while reading?
One or multiple pov?
One sitting or multiple days?
Book you read because of the cover?

socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis

[ebonykenae]

totally agree with you on so many points!! i too am fickle when it comes to filming book tags. i’m glad that you decided to give this one a shot!

[casskrug]

ooooh i’m loving these questions!! feel ya on not having hard answers to most of them though 😭 also living for these glasses!!

[rebareads]

Loved listening to all your answers, I always love your recs and takes!

Omg I felt the same way about Motherhood. I felt that I should have liked it much much more than I did. I’m still curious about Heti. I’ll try something else of hers.

[thelefthandedreader]

What a fun tag! I really like these questions and thinking about my answers. Oh I do need to read My Brilliant Friend. I started the first chapter when I was out of town and really liked it! I’m a big cover as candy person too! Oh yes. 😊

[DogEaredMusings]

Agree with you on four being enough for a series :)

[nathansnook]

we. did it for the big bad iceberg bb!

also i require more controversial hot takes! disliking A Tale of Two Cities?! but also same 😭

[MJ-in-Canada]

You didn’t like “A Tale of Two Cities?” A controversial statement indeed!😆 I read that book when I was quite young, of my own volition, and loved it. When a book is required reading, it can turn you off the author for life.