I’m glad that there’s a M&G newsletter, thank you for doing this for your followers. I enjoy the podcast more and more each time I listen to it. The pace of the discussions and the topics chosen, as well as the variety of titles discussed are perfect. I especially liked the dustiest book episode.
For a future episode I would like to know if other readers ever experience what I call reader’s block, when no matter how many books I start none of them hook me. I sometimes think it’s because I’m spoiled for choice, usually though I don’t know what it stems from, but it’s very frustrating when it happens.
Do other readers experience this and if so what do they do? Sometimes I re-read a beloved book, sometimes I read short stories, lately I use that time to read some of the Greek classics I’ve recently discovered that I love, if it’s particularly stubborn case, I don’t fight it and instead binge watch Call the Midwife or Lord of the Rings until a particular title calls to me. Which more often than not is one of the dusty books that has been patiently waiting to be noticed.
You're going to get tired of seeing my name, but on tbe Summer Reading Part II episode Paul mentioned having a book that belonged to his grandfather. Among a few treasured books from previous generations, including my sweet dad, are a couple of books that came down to me from my great-great grandfather Henry Hulbert who wrote his name and 1890 in the front cover. These books were passed to my great-grandfather, Lowell Bliss, who wrote his name and "grandson of Henry Hulbert" on the inside cover. The books are a bit radical for their time: The Clergy A Source of Danger, Religions of Man and the Ethics of Science, The Book of Religions, and my favorite is A Stellar Key to The Summer Land by Andrew Jackson Davis. My great-grandfather was a Spiritualist and A Stellar Key.. is a Spiritualist book. I think the author was mentioned in A. S. Byatt's Possession, but I have to double check.
I bet a lot of book lovers have books passed down from parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and others that are now treasures. Maybe you could talk about that one show.
Thanks for your first newsletter! I love the show and the show notes. I think I can beat the 1977 record of the "dustiest" book. I have a copy of The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, bought for me at the house itself in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1966 and inscribed by my mother. Although I have read, enjoyed and even taught The Scarlet Letter and quite a few Hawthorne short stories, I STILL haven't cracked The House of Seven Gables. I think that your very enjoyable podcast and writing this message will be my inspiration for putting it on my 2022 Summer Reading list!
I’m glad that there’s a M&G newsletter, thank you for doing this for your followers. I enjoy the podcast more and more each time I listen to it. The pace of the discussions and the topics chosen, as well as the variety of titles discussed are perfect. I especially liked the dustiest book episode.
For a future episode I would like to know if other readers ever experience what I call reader’s block, when no matter how many books I start none of them hook me. I sometimes think it’s because I’m spoiled for choice, usually though I don’t know what it stems from, but it’s very frustrating when it happens.
Do other readers experience this and if so what do they do? Sometimes I re-read a beloved book, sometimes I read short stories, lately I use that time to read some of the Greek classics I’ve recently discovered that I love, if it’s particularly stubborn case, I don’t fight it and instead binge watch Call the Midwife or Lord of the Rings until a particular title calls to me. Which more often than not is one of the dusty books that has been patiently waiting to be noticed.
You're going to get tired of seeing my name, but on tbe Summer Reading Part II episode Paul mentioned having a book that belonged to his grandfather. Among a few treasured books from previous generations, including my sweet dad, are a couple of books that came down to me from my great-great grandfather Henry Hulbert who wrote his name and 1890 in the front cover. These books were passed to my great-grandfather, Lowell Bliss, who wrote his name and "grandson of Henry Hulbert" on the inside cover. The books are a bit radical for their time: The Clergy A Source of Danger, Religions of Man and the Ethics of Science, The Book of Religions, and my favorite is A Stellar Key to The Summer Land by Andrew Jackson Davis. My great-grandfather was a Spiritualist and A Stellar Key.. is a Spiritualist book. I think the author was mentioned in A. S. Byatt's Possession, but I have to double check.
I bet a lot of book lovers have books passed down from parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and others that are now treasures. Maybe you could talk about that one show.
Thanks again for the wonderful podcasts!
Wendy
Thanks for your first newsletter! I love the show and the show notes. I think I can beat the 1977 record of the "dustiest" book. I have a copy of The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, bought for me at the house itself in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1966 and inscribed by my mother. Although I have read, enjoyed and even taught The Scarlet Letter and quite a few Hawthorne short stories, I STILL haven't cracked The House of Seven Gables. I think that your very enjoyable podcast and writing this message will be my inspiration for putting it on my 2022 Summer Reading list!