This Week in Booktube: March 29, 2026

(These are the Booktube videos I watched this week. As always, I encourage you also to check out each of the videos I've linked to down below.  Support Booktube.  And let me know what you've watched this past week.)

Google document: docs, pub

Joseph Francis Burton A Better Life, by Lionel Shriver - book discussion

jim's books reading & stuff The NON-Fiction Book Tag

William's Library Netflix's '1983' Review

jim's books reading & stuff 1 min review: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Derek Green The Crusades.... An epic piece of history.

Bucky749 Book’em : BOOK’em : Sherlock homes and TMNT PICK UP

Barry Lyndon: Movie Review

Waterloo: Movie Review: https://youtu.be/-RU5-LByLLM

This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:

https://youtu.be/HgneyXvRI04  

and HERE: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/12/vlog-scripted-book-reviews-i-ramble-on.html

In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/02/barry-lyndon.html

Related Playlists:

Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x6N06WoIoV2fLb6xRYrepTk&si=EDHi2_Y41ACLnCmA

Scripted Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x49ts8TV1DbXQo8zN_e65us&si=_gzqGAmaz337NVCP

Scripted Reviews Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5BKcEIufNKlS58JHU_glyL&si=Pje0KQqIqOgWGGUI

Movies I Saw in 2014 Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x4WRnfM_TDQClWj8OOCg9f_&si=Uu6SYX9o1qm1Ndhc

The Hobbit 3: The Battle of the Five Armies: Movie Review

* The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien: Book Review: https://youtu.be/fBnzH2HFLTA

* The Hobbit 1: An Unexpected Journey: Movie Review: https://youtu.be/Vxe2vr-wWPU

* The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug: Movie Review: https://youtu.be/LPFNEqju7DM

This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:

https://youtu.be/HgneyXvRI04  

and HERE: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/12/vlog-scripted-book-reviews-i-ramble-on.html

In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-hobbit-3-battle-of-five-armies.html

Related Playlists:

Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x6N06WoIoV2fLb6xRYrepTk&si=EDHi2_Y41ACLnCmA

Scripted Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x49ts8TV1DbXQo8zN_e65us&si=_gzqGAmaz337NVCP

Scripted Reviews Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5BKcEIufNKlS58JHU_glyL&si=Pje0KQqIqOgWGGUI

Movies I Saw in 2015: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x426qg4s_QQsRhrKi2t2PeQ&si=uGRpPXXf84z_IiGo

6 Stars Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5J3Xt6eNnuYXV6HcAIbGEy

J. R. R. Tolkien Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5i-NI47xPtNmgnqSSCLPEB&si=c89xrIhefatmHHbt

The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7_AIufffOhnh-_TK8uCQed&si=URGoxv7w60KTS2zk

The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug: Movie Review

* The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien: Book Review: https://youtu.be/fBnzH2HFLTA

* The Hobbit 1: An Unexpected Journey: Movie Review: https://youtu.be/Vxe2vr-wWPU

This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:

https://youtu.be/HgneyXvRI04  

and HERE: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/12/vlog-scripted-book-reviews-i-ramble-on.html

In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-hobbit-2-desolation-of-smaug.html

Related Playlists:

Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x6N06WoIoV2fLb6xRYrepTk&si=EDHi2_Y41ACLnCmA

Scripted Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x49ts8TV1DbXQo8zN_e65us&si=_gzqGAmaz337NVCP

Scripted Reviews Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5BKcEIufNKlS58JHU_glyL&si=Pje0KQqIqOgWGGUI

Movies I Saw in 2014 Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x4WRnfM_TDQClWj8OOCg9f_&si=Uu6SYX9o1qm1Ndhc

6 Stars Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5J3Xt6eNnuYXV6HcAIbGEy

J. R. R. Tolkien Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5i-NI47xPtNmgnqSSCLPEB&si=c89xrIhefatmHHbt

The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7_AIufffOhnh-_TK8uCQed&si=URGoxv7w60KTS2zk

Started: Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners: The SIOP Model [6th edition]

This is a reread of sorts.  I read the 3rd edition of this book last summer.  I am rereading it now both because I want to solidify the concepts in my mind as much as possible, and because I have come to realize that I hadn't read the most current edition.

As a side note: I'm not sure how it was that I didn't get the most current edition when I ordered this book off of Amazon last summer.  When I was searching for this book on Amazon last summer, the 3rd edition was the first one that popped up on my search.  It didn't even occur to me that there were more current editions.  Although the 6th edition of this book changes part of the title to "Multilingual Learners" instead of "English Learners".  So maybe that's why the newest edition didn't spring up when I was searching last summer.  (I was searching for the title based on what SIOP books came up on a library search.)

The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth: Poem

(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)

Transcript: docs, pub
Video: HERE

The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth: poem

Video: https://youtu.be/4rdx5CjaOLg

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

Related Playlists: Poems ESL Listening Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7ReDXIOlVgC1Ci0mGdDWqd ESL Listening Exercises Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7xq-zLjulU2DRTjg2TNmAx https://sites.google.com/view/reading-and-listening-practice

The newest of the Oldest Stories Podcast is out now.  (For my review of the whole series, see here.)

Sargon II and the Fall of Merodach-Baladan - Oldest Stories Podcast

Grand River Riverfront Park (Early Spring)

(Travelogues--West Michigan)

Grand River Riverfront Park (Early Spring)

Part 2: Grand River Riverfront Park (Early Spring)

(Microsoft Clipchamp was giving me problems when I tried to make this into one long video, so I had to split it into two parts.)

Address: 12570 Grand River Dr SE, Lowell, MI 49331

Related Playlists:

Travelogues Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x71JnPJ1gs_uaswSALX-7V9

West Michigan Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x4D-0HPmovcbB6cCqlVVGEL&si=IEFmZ3UMgJxI0F4F

Kent County Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5EOMa9ZWDBtdpQFwtlk_ev&si=t8952PnDfrJQTvBY

Lowell Township Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x4EtIjQDNap8FOdiCWbmdDm&si=TXvlm31f1oeO_Jiq

Tootsie: Movie Review

Links to stuff mentioned: 

Watch this movie on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Q73kG4ltDts?si=f_TOTGclROYVmO0q

It might be you song: https://youtu.be/Y9AVoIROBt0?si=30smy0ePlfgf-RX7

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker: https://youtu.be/yZh25tJ7b9s

Gene Siskel's review: https://youtu.be/Zbt4zRflBFs?si=FGgdDIy7g6jCF-QG

Roger Ebert's review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tootsie-1982

The AVclub review: https://web.archive.org/web/20150501032338/http://www.avclub.com/review/tootsie-7229

This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:

https://youtu.be/HgneyXvRI04  

and HERE: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/12/vlog-scripted-book-reviews-i-ramble-on.html

In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/02/tootsie.html

Related Playlists:

Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x6N06WoIoV2fLb6xRYrepTk&si=EDHi2_Y41ACLnCmA

Scripted Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x49ts8TV1DbXQo8zN_e65us&si=_gzqGAmaz337NVCP

Scripted Reviews Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5BKcEIufNKlS58JHU_glyL&si=Pje0KQqIqOgWGGUI

Movies I Saw in 2014 Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x4WRnfM_TDQClWj8OOCg9f_&si=Uu6SYX9o1qm1Ndhc

1 Star Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7eBH--jB7tqjusGk1CaCuV

The Nonfiction book Tag

The tag was created by Bibliophile-Bookscape: https://youtu.be/kuhyyyGyR0M?si=O5VRfk759FLX5qin

I was tagged by Derek Green: https://youtu.be/qKNFqj1rC0g?si=EOzuVnNTSywnyyyc

1. What originally made you interested in reading nonfiction?

2. Do you read nonfiction mainly for curiosity, learning, or enjoyment?

3. What topic could you read endless nonfiction about?

4. How do you usually discover nonfiction books?

5. Do you follow authors or topics when choosing nonfiction?

6. What nonfiction book stuck with you long after reading?

7. What topic have you learned the most about through books?

8. What nonfiction book made you curious about something unexpected?

9. What topic would you recommend everyone explore at least once?

10. What nonfiction book would you recommend to curious readers?

11. What nonfiction book would you give someone who says they don’t like nonfiction?

Links to stuff mentioned:

* The Scramble for Africa: 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham: https://youtu.be/oy8fySdy4zw

* My Favorite Narrative History Books: https://youtu.be/-IpTC7RX9d0

* The Moral Animal by Robert Wright: https://youtu.be/f7ATNq7CMqA

* The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker: https://youtu.be/yZh25tJ7b9s

I tag:

 @Bucky749  

 @mindysbookjourney  

 @WilliamsLibrary  

 @jimsbooksreadingandstuff  

 @bethannebruninga-socolar  

 @JosephFrancisBurton  

Tag Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x68GfUHYtDeSJLo6gwRKIID