Reading makes you awesome.

[TwiVampFan]

Anyone seen any video reviews or read any online reviews about the e-book

April Curran Meets the Vampire of Crimson Cove High School?

[asmodeusz257]

Hi! I am from Poland. Maybe you know us Polish? Nevermind. I love the moments 0:26-0:27, 1:30, 1:54, 2:49, 2:54-2:57, 3:05, 3:06-3:08, 3:16, 3:27-3:29, 3:35, 4:13-4:14, 4:48-5:00. I love when you laughingh, smiling or touching books by your cheek or neck. When you doing it i have tignle and crawly feeling in my spin. And you have nice pearls, i love pearls, only that jewellery i really love. And its very good that you reading Joyce. Maybe you try Finnegans Wake? Bye, from Poland Krzysztof(Chris)

[IMnotSAS]

what i wonna know is, would you sleep with your favourite novelist? cos i just wanna know if novelists are a little like rock stars or not?

thanks

[c64c64c64]

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

And how else can it be?

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

[c64c64c64]

thanks for the tips, can i suggest "the prophet" by kahlil gibran, if you have not read already? you can find his entire book online by searching the prophet kahlil gibran in google :)

as a taster..i have pasted a little from his section on sorrow and joy.

[BloggerMusicMan]

Read two of those books. The Year of Living Biblically was incredibly interesting. His encounters with young Earth creationists and other religious nutjobs like his uncle in Israel were absolutely hysterical. I've also read Portrait, which was a brilliantly conceived classic by one of the most fascinating authours of the 20th century.

Great list of books by the way, and your commentary was generally spot on.

[gorgeousbutterfly]

What kind of pearls are you wearing?

[lumosdawlish]

My dad gave them to my mother years ago. I'm not sure what kind they are. Unfortunately, I left them in a hotel about a year ago.

[buttsyrc8]

Not joking - Robert Louis Stevenson.

Do not get more cool than him!

[buttsyrc8]

A masterpeice-no question!

[chuy14nba]

pretty eyes!!! =))

[trisoctehedron]

This is so refreshing! Not many teens on YouTube have read James Joyce. Please make more videos. You're virtually unique.

[CrypticalOne]

You are mesmerizing, intelligent, and beautiful.

[meegs723]

Thank you so much for this video! I've never read any of these but they are definitely going to the top of my list. :)

[88giggles]

wow you're really smart. I love it!!!

[bc06dave]

I love Donald Miller!

Have you read "Through Painted Deserts" by him?

[lumosdawlish]

I haven't yet! It's on my list.

[buttsyrc8]

Is Ulysses the best book ever written?

[georges3601]

Ulysses is arguably the best novel ever written, but such a thing as a best book is impossible. Actually, that fact has a lot to do with Joyce and particularly Ulysses, which is essentially a book about books, and examines everything else-- Ireland, sexuality, nationalism, Catholicism, the Church, Judaism, fidelity, and humanity-- through the lense of literature and genre.

[buttsyrc8]

Ulysses is great but is for English Students as is not very enjoyable!

Would like to hear Moby Dick more

[buttsyrc8]

Not impossible for each of us.

Mine are Jane Eyre and Lord of the Flies!!!

[buttsyrc8]

Have a go at Jane Eyre if have not read it before as is stunning!

If you know the end do not bother.

A masterpiece.

[georges3601]

I've always wanted to read Jane Eyre!

Now I'm going to do it for sure.

And you should look for 'Autobiography of Red.'

[buttsyrc8]

Read it before anyone gives it away

[buttsyrc8]

You need to tell me more?

Love Joyce but Kerouac is easier for me to read and is great.

Try Great Sur which is a heartbreaker!

[georges3601]

Kerouac... I don't know. I have a love/hate relationship with Kerouac. I think I would have liked to know him in real life, but I don't like his work. As Capote said of On the Road, "that's not writing; it's typing!"

Read Virginia Woolf! Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse are favourites of mine.

[buttsyrc8]

Have you read it

[BloggerMusicMan]

@georges3601

Funny, I have the same opinion about Burroughs as you do about Kerouac. I think Burroughs would've been a really interesting guy to know in person, but I found "Naked Lunch" to be a "giant jack off session" (someone else came up with that, but I thought it summed it up too perfectly).

I'd have to disagree with you and Capote. I thought "On The Road" was really good.  Although I think both of them are subpar to Allen Ginsberg.

Haven't read Virginia Wolfe, I should.

[georges3601]

Oh, I definitely agree with you about Ginsberg.

But the thing with the Beats is that, I guess they all wrote jack-off sessions. They thought a bit too highly of themselves, imho.

But I'll give Burroughs this: On the Road bored me, but no matter how silly Naked Lunch gets, it's at least never dull.

[buttsyrc8]

A little harsh as am now obsessed with pirates and fishermen.

Have a try at the wonderful Treasure Island!

[buttsyrc8]

Golding Lord of the Flies is a stunner-but Joyce is not easy

[buttsyrc8]

My name is Ishmael prob the best opening line of any book

[goingforthegold]

You should read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. I'd be interested in hearing your take on it.

[buttsyrc8]

Ta.

Will give it a try!

[Milllie91]

I really like AJ Jacobs as well.

[fion2468]

i love your room and my mom say my is messy

well ill try to find and read the books

[rogermcnally]

Religion is all metaphor. When you have got that you don't need the trappings anymore. You walk in eternity ... now!!!

[hempenasphalt]

I think Joyce was raised a Catholic in Ireland at a politically fraught time and pretty scarred about it...I would hesitate to really take his religious views as those of, say, somebody dealing perfectly evenhandedly with the religion... When his daughter Lucia wanted to go to church he was a bit nasty about it, iirc.

anyway back to reality, I really liked your video! go you!

[upthedubs2008]

Yes, the end of 'The Dead' in Dubliners is something special.. And Ullyses is well worth getting through, might be useful to buy an accompanying reader to it. How do non-Dubliners cope with the Dublin slang that he sometimes uses? I think a lot of humour might be lost because of this (not a criticism, just something I wonder about..)

[BrianTheMusicMan]

You should study Joyce's view of Christianity =]

[GymMidget415]

Gaaaah don't recommend books for me to read! I work in a book store, I WILL go and buy them. And I don't have the money to do that. And I have a stack of books I need to finish reading.

[dwood2001]

I've got The Year of Living Biblically, but haven't had a chance to read much of it. There's always too much on my list!

As for analysis and symbolism, while I can enjoy studying books like that a lot, it's not the main reason I read. So when there are already a lot of books I want to read, I tend to skip anything literary unless it's got a good flow (as most modern books that are written for storytelling purposes have). I have the same preference with my own writing- I tell stories.

[TheFourthTemperament]

I really need to get on Joyce. I haven't read Blue Like Jazz, but have heard AMAZING things about it. I really, really need to read it.

[buttsyrc8]

Enjoy as Joyce is a stunning writer!

Ulysses is an amazing thing.

[AccioTrio]

I requested them all from the library while watching this. I'll give you updates in scones as they come in and I read them. You have awesome taste in books, so I'm really excited!

[tbyank19]

btw does anyone ever tell u that u remind them of Luna?

[lumosdawlish]

Yes, all the time.:-)

[ProfessorSpork]

I loooooooove you.

[owlssayhooot]

P.S. I read I Capture the Castle when Jo recommended it, too. But I don't really remember it... I should re-read it. I remember liking it! xxx

[xperpetualmotion]

Awesome, I'm definately going to try to check some of those out.

[owlssayhooot]

Ur h0tt.

[tbyank19]

i am perplexed

[owlssayhooot]

It was a joke... Sarah is one of my best friends.

[tbyank19]

ok sorry i apoligize

[lumosdawlish]

u r hawterr

[hayleyghoover]

*gangbang*