Friday Reads and The Reader Profile Tag

Happy Friday, Booktube! I won't ever be able to catch up on tags, but I did think this one was intriguing. I'd love to hear your answers to these questions in the Comments section or even what are you currently reading! As always, if you don't feel comfortable leaving a comment, you can leave an emoji or give this video a thumbs up. I appreciate it!

This tag was created by @HilaryBGreen (channel name is Book Bustle)
I was tagged by Pat @BookChatWithPat8668

1. What for you makes a good book?
2. What are you currently reading?
3. What's the last book you didn't finish and why?
4. What obscure book do you wish other people would read?
5. What's the longest book you've ever read?
6. If you could have a dinner party with five fictional characters, who would they be?
7. Five books you'd want if stranded on a desert island.
8. One book you could not put down.
9. Five books or authors you will never read.
10. If you were to write a book, what would it be about?

Booktubers mentioned:
Berna @BernasBookishAdventures
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Aaron @AaronReadABook

Videos mentioned:
Please Read This Book: Now in November (no spoilers)

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[bookstalgic]

Great tag! I’m almost done with my first read-through of the Bible and I know that I will definitely do a second reread at some point where I actually highlight and take notes. It was so cool to finally be at the end of it and understand so much more about the stories inside that I always sort of knew about, but didn’t really understand. I would love to read Les Miserables someday! And the count of monte Crisco. I put the Betsy Tacy series on my list for a cozy rainy day. Hope you have a great weekend full of relaxing and reading 😊📚✨

[MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH]

Loved that buddy read. One of my all time favorite books! ❤

[marciajohansson]

Please humor me 🙄😳🥺😏
I like to play along even though only a commenter
1) mix between a good story and interesting characters.
2) Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
3) Born Losers: A History of Failure in America by Scott A. Sandage ( i would like to finish, brought back to library as other books took precedence)
4) A Gracious Plenty By Sheri Reynolds · (Sheri Reynolds definitely needs more attention)
5) I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb 897pg
6) No idea
7) Not being a rereader typically hmm. I will go with the long books I want to read. Like you Les Miserables (did read in HS), The Count of Monte Cristo,
A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1) by Vikram Seth, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
and Why not because I am looking at this book right now. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
8) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, fiction and recently non fiction same time frame
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor
9) anything by the author of The Shack by William P. Young, James Patterson, Donna Everhart, Joyce Carol Oates, nonfiction tmtc
10) I would not write. I do not even like to journal or even write a shopping list hahaha 😵‍💫🤣🤪

[BookChatWithPat]

Hi Kelly. Thanks for doing this tag. Please don’t ever feel any pressure from me! I love your idea of booktubers meeting up rather than inviting fictional characters to dinner! I’m part of Ulysses Six, and we are becoming The Brothers and Sisters Karamazov! 😂 Want to join us? I’m actually with you on Finnegan’s Wake, and I’ve read Ulysses three times now. No desire to read FW whatsoever. If you did want to read Joyce, I’d recommend Dubliners. It’s a collection of short stories, and they’re very accessible compared to his later works. And some of the stories within, like “Araby, ” “The Sisters, ” “Two Gallants, ” and “The Dead” are frequently anthologized in collections. No pressure here either, but since you asked, that would be my recommendation. 😊 I hope you’re doing well. Have a great weekend!

[PatriciaTowill]

thankyou kelly.did like your review of authors/books you would never read.lets have more of that too.

[davidcreager]

I'm reading a biography of Ben Franklin, so far it's very interesting !!!! Enjoy your books and have a wonderful weekend ! 🎃👺☠️👻💀🦇🧟

[LaurieInTexas]

Great tag and I love your desert island choices. Shakespeare and The Count of Monte Cristo would be two of mine along with your least favorite Middlemarch. I am still reading Vanity Fair, but I finished The Small House at Allington this morning and of course I loved it. I'm not sure I could pick my favorite book from the series, but I have to wait until I am done to really give that some thought. I may read The Last Chronicle of Barset in December, but we'll see.

[AaronReadABook]

I've never heard of Betsy Tacy before, sounds interesting. I don't think James Joyce is for me either, I did read some of Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and that was reasonably understandable but it was his first, Ulysses sounds like the the apex of patience-testing nonsense. I think you should watch the Middlemarch mini-series, it's great and might improve your opinion of the book 😂

[stuartgriffin]

I hope you have a wonderful weekend too. I love your answers.

I am currently reading The Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackon, and Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

[gammaanteria]

Hi Kelly, TGIF!! 😁 Hope that you are doing great! Since you introduced me to "Now in November" (and I really enjoyed it!), you may be pleased to know I recommended and lent it to a good friend of mine who is also really into books/literature. As for me, I recently completed "Beowulf" (saw a copy for cheap and hadn't read it since high school days) and "Gulliver's Travels" by Swift. I am currently reading "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson.

[Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods]

I meant to reread the Betsy-Tacy series this year or last year, but had a lot of other reading and writing commitments. My favorite book in the official series, as of my first reading experience, is probably either Betsy's Wedding or Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown. I also loved the spin-offs Carney's House Party and Emily of Deep Valley.

I'm not sure yet which book I'll be reading over Yom Kippur tonight and tomorrow, but I'm leaning towards The Heptameron. It's a French Renaissance version of The Decameron, only with 70 stories instead of 100.

[sjmsutherland]

Hi Kelly, I hope you're well!! Another lovely, cosy video, I really enjoyed this!! Funny enough, I'm looking to start Count of Monte Cristo...if you ever fancy doing a buddy read at some point!?? I want to read Les Mis as well!! Hope you have a lovely weekend!!xx

[CrochetAndLattes]

Hi Kelly! it's been a hot minute since I've been on BookTube, and I've changed my channel name (remember me from Cozy Reads & Tea Leaves)? I've been rebranding my business and working on some crochet projects on a smaller YT channel. I would love to do this tag!
Les Miserables is one of my absolute favorites, I adore it!
Hugs from Mimi (Michelle)

[nathanfoung]

🎃 great Thumbnail Kelly! Your book sounds sad 😂😢😂

If you can get your hands on a copy, you might like/relate to a Japanese book called "There's no such thing as an Easy Job" by Kikuko Tsumura. She wrote your book already. Have a great weekend. Go well.

[BernasBookishAdventures]

Loving our chats in the buddy read ❤ and I decided not to read H is for Hawk in my try a chapter video. It just not was for me 😉

[binglamb]

Yes to Les Miserables and The Count of Monte Cristo. I would add The Three Musketeers as I just finished it and absolutely loved it. I plan on reading the sequels as well. I am with you on Fernando Pessoa. It was one of my rare DNFs. Progress report: I am two thirds of the way through Judi Dench's book and really enjoying it so far. 🙋‍♂

[marjoriedybec]

I'm going to answer 5 questions that I think might interest you and your readers.

4. What obscure book/s do you wish other people would read? I wish people would read “What is the Grass, Walt Whitman in my Life” by Mark Doty, “Out of this Century” by Peggy Guggenheim, and “Les Miserables, ” by Victor Hugo (also the longest book I've read at 1, 376 pgs.)

6. If you could have a dinner party with five fictional characters, who would they be? I’d rather pick five authors: Charles Dickens, Mike Pride, Peter Mayle, Walt Whitman, and Colette would make for a great dinner party. For fictional characters here are 10: Edmond Dantes, Jean Valjean, Eustacia Vye, Ebenezer Scrooge (after his night visits), Becky Sharp, Eleanor Lavish, Léa de Lonval, Oliver Mellors, Emma Bovary and the fair youth (the mysterious object of Shakespeare’s sonnets.) With that assemblage, we better have some guest rooms too. 😉

7. Five books you'd want if stranded on a desert island. Les Miserables, Leaves of Grass, The Collected Stories of Colette, Vanity Fair, Jane Eyre, A Christmas Carol (in my sock)

8. One book you could not put down. Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival (Anderson Cooper)

10. If you were to write a book, what would it be about? I’ve written a book. It’s a multi-generational family saga (lit fiction) set in Norfolk, England during the 1980s with historical fiction elements. It’s a story of love and loss, found family, and the pursuit of dreams. Sorry, can't give away the plot. Now to get it published—next year’s project.

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[marjoriedybec]

Re: George Eliot and Middlemarch. MIddlemarch was not my favorite Eliot novel but it is excellent although confusing at first and too long. I can also see how someone who wants appealing characters would find Middlemarch a slog. The characters do evolve and some become quite likable but you need to be well into the story before that happens. My favorite of her novels was Mill on the Floss. The end scene is so incredibly cinematic! For likeable characters, probably Felix Holt The Radical wins but I found it was too mired in the very specific english politics to really just enjoy the story. But don't give up on George Eliot. She was a remarkable author.

[mame-musing]

💁‍♀️Hi Kelly, this is an interesting tag. “The Dead” by James Joyce is a wonderful (longish) short story by James Joyce. It’s the last story in “The Dubliners” short story collection. It’s atmospheric and poignant with fully fleshed out characters. Anjelica Houston was mesmerizing in the film adaptation. It was the last film directed by her father, John Houston. It would be good to watch in December since the setting is a Christmas party in Dublin.
As for five books🧐I would bring anthologies of American, British and Irish short stories of the 19th, 20th and 21st C short stories plus a Bible (full of stories). An anthology of Russian stories could be added for variety.
A relatively obscure novel I would recommend is “An American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser. It’s a heck of a story based on a 1920’s news item about an upstate New York murder trial - but is it?
Happy reading 📚👓 ☕️

[abiwk]

My five desert island books: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, Dissolution by C. J. Sansom (my favourite book), Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Suzannah Clarke, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (another favourite) and some sort of Agatha Christie collection/ bind up.
It’s a shame not to have electricity because a kindle would be ideal for a desert island because you can read
in the dark and bring thousands of books.