I discovered your channel through this video. Happy Reading!

Always good to see you after a break Curtis and you are now a cat person! I’d never had one until three years ago and suddenly you understand the whole cat love thing 😻 Before I started watching booktube I read about 30 books about a year, that seems a decent amount of books to read and appreciate though I do read more now. And Other Stories is such a great publisher, if I lived in the U.K I think I’d be tempted to get their yearly subscription and I don’t mind Library books. I kind of like seeing where they come from and usually you can take the plastic off and the book is in great condition underneath. Hope we get to see more of you this year!

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Thanks Jo. I was an immediate convert after never having cared about cats in any way my entire life... Now I can't get enough of them!

Great to see you back. Thanks for showing the Beckett letters. Had wondered about the notes. Hope you are able to make more videos.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Thanks Shawn. Hope you are on the mend and enjoying life up north?

👏👏🥳🥳🥰🥰 You’re back! Love the new look. Now I’ll watch the video.

Great to see you again. Good also to hear someone now reading as many books as I have ever managed - 4-5 a month is a good number for me. Quality not quantity.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Agreed!

So glad to see you back, Curtis. As for my part, I think the quality of your videos is fine, imo the content itself matters way more than the camera quality or the editing. I guess that you still haven't reached 1k subs more because of the few hiatuses than anything else. That being said, I'll stick around whether you post more consistently or not, because I myself struggle with keeping any hobby consistent throughout the months or years. Also, I really relate to what you say regarding reading less now than in the past, I struggle with the same issue. I'd also love to be able to read more books a month like I used to, but being an adult with a full time job, plus the routine of everyday life, are demanding not only physically but also mentally, so I guess it is expected that the dedicated time reading for leisure slows down. Would love to see a future review of your reading of the Beckett's letters, if you feel like reviewing it.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the nice comment. I am now getting stuck into the letters again so hopefully shouldn't be too long before I move onto vol 2.

Well, howdy, stranger! I never thought to see you on KZread again. I hope this isn't a one-off. As you talked about Berg, it reminded me of Iris Murdoch's hilarious novel, A Severed Head. Murdoch's book deals with all sorts of combinations of couplings but does so as she brilliantly satirizes the guilty sexual secrets of the bourgeois. In my old age, I've found there's very little I get serious about. Life's tough enough without having a good laugh. I've read many of Murdoch's books and she cuts through the crap other authors unhesitatingly accept without thought. It's fascinating the way she adapts her approach to the story in order to mesh with her attitudes towards the subject matter she's writing about. Concerning not reading as much as you used to, a good reader (in my opinion) is a fluid reader. One day there may be a need to read voraciously. The next day that voraciousness may have experienced an ebb. It doesn't matter how much you read but that you are receptive to reading when the need arises. Otherwise, you change from being a reader to being nothing more than a machine that happens to read. There are a lot of people on the dinosaur called BookTube who are machines that read rather than normal readers. I'm seventy-five and throughout my life I've gone through spells of reading followed by dry spells of not reading much to speak of. Rather than be concerned about it, I just strive to make the time that I do read count. I do this by choosing my reading material purposefully and paying attention to what I read. How many BookTubers talk about books they've read and they don't even remember the name of the main characters? Pitiful. No pressure for you to continue making videos. It's just nice to see you back at it again. Take care.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Howdy SB, thanks for your comment as always. That's one Murdoch I haven't read yet (and truth be told I don't think I even own that one). But I love her. I think you're right about adapting and being fluid with your reading, but I also think you should always push yourself to read more. Otherwise you might end up making poor excuses for not reading at all. But I defer to your superior wisdom.

I think Quin's "Passages" is by far her best of the 4 novels.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction as always Marc

@MarcNash

Ай бұрын

@@CurtisBooksandFilms She's a really important female avant garde British author, but of the 4 books of hers, one I loved, one I couldn't get through and two 'Berg' & 'Three" were so so. I prefer the works of BS Johnson tbh

It’s good to see you, Curtis. Read on.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Thanks :)

I couldn't believe my eyes! I just checked today, if there's anything on your community page, saying that there's a chance of you coming back. And then there you are. Hopefully no one is coming for me for a witch hunt.😜

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Ah, so you're the reason I had the sudden urge to make a video then. I call voodoo!

Welcome back! :)

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

... and he's back! welcome! Yes to the idea of best books you've read this year video. You pick such interesting books. Especially want to hear about the Dixon book as it rates so highly on humour.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the vote of confidence as always, Heather.

@heathergregg9975

Ай бұрын

@@CurtisBooksandFilms Looking forward to hearing more from you and your shelves.

I see Vargamae on the shelf!

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Ай бұрын

Your fault probably 🤣. I forgot to mention I recently read Blue Postcards thanks to your incredible mystery guest a few weeks ago.