Bookshelf Tour

Bookshelf Tour

I’m hoping many people will join me in using the livestream feature as a way to tell us about the books they enjoy enough to keep on their shelves. It would allow all of us to get to know one another better and maybe find some new books while doing so. For example, I’ve always been curious about the many books that

Simon K Jones

has behind him while recording his videos.

This is a short 7 minute video where I walk through some of my favorite books. The books on that shelf are either poetry or some piece of classical fiction. During the livestream I mention my favorite poem by Edmund Vance Cooke.

How Did You Die?

Did you tackle that trouble that came your way
With a resolute heart and cheerful?
Or hide your face from the light of day
With a craven soul and fearful?
Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it,
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only how did you take it?

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that?
Come up with a smiling face.
It's nothing against you to fall down flat,
But to lie there -- that's disgrace.
The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce;
Be proud of your blackened eye!
It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts,
It's how did you fight -- and why?

And though you be done to the death, what then?
If you battled the best you could,
If you played your part in the world of men,
Why, the Critic will call it good.
Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,
And whether he's slow or spry,
It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,
But only how did you die?

Join me for my next live video in the app.