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I love the Screwtape letters & Narnia! One I’ve read you didn’t mention is Reflections on the Psalms.

I’m so glad I stumbled upon your channel! I love C.S. Lewis! I’m also a Christ follower, Booktuber, & stay at home mom, who is just starting homeschooling my preschooler! 🫶

I've read a few Christie, but no Miss Marple ones yet. Maybe this will be the next one after And Then There Were None (next on my list)

I have only read the last book that you mentioned but I have many of these titles on my 40 before 40 list. In 2024 some favorites include Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Poldark, and The Fellowship of the Ring. I can’t wait to see more videos from you this year!

Oh, that C S Lewis book sounds so good. I've not read that one yet. I agree that Mansfield Park is a very underrated Austen. It's a great book. I really need to read The Enchanted April, it's been on my TBR forever and ever, but I've not picked it up. OOOOHHHH Paradise Lost was one of my favorites last year! Girl, you and I love the same books. I'm twice your age I'm sure but we should be friends. 💖💖

Jane Austen is wonderful

Beautiful love your reviews some I have and some I dont❤

Such a great list!!

I love this conversation about NA! it's been a few years I think since I read it, but I'll be reading it again later this year in our Jane Austen 250th Birthday Celebration. I did not realize LLP had read and discussed this one! Isabella Thorpe is like a Southern Belle kinda character, lol. Comes across sweet and polite but has a sting! Excellent point about the irony of Tilney and Catherine's falling in love being so NORMAL. I never thought of that but you are so right! Loved this video!

I appreciate your point of view, as so many people make this book sound absolutely horrible. There is something that is drawing me to it, so I keep watching reviews. Thank you for sharing ❤ Edit: have you read any Charles Dickens? He is quickly becoming my favorite! I love Great Expectations so far. I also love Jane Austen.

The great movie with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, along with the Kate Bush song, give people the complete wrong perception. It's Gothic Romantic Horror centered around the relationships of truly awful miserable people. Written so beautifully though with such pretty over the top expresseive words.

What a wonderful video with many great book recommendations!

I still need to read The abolition of Man. Loves hearing your thoughts on your study of CS Lewis

I love these goals, the reading and the life ones. Great idea to pick a male and female author to focus on. I'm also rereading through the Anne series and I'm at the same point!

YOu would also love LEAD ME where the light is ours ~~ by N.GALILEA

I would like to congratulate you on your writing it has been very well articulated and also eloquently Express I must commend you on your ability to produce a quality the definition of ice cream meaning 2004 I very much appreciate all of your efforts and what you have taken the time to do such a wonderful thing and it will be a great contribution to mankind and that I truly believe for it is art in which you your seft have created

Without planning it, C.S. Lewis ended up being my most read male author last year and I loved it. I was drawn towards his work much of the year. The Abolition of Man, Preface to Paradise Lost, and The Great Divorce are still on my TBR. However, I did read his Space Trilogy and it was so good! I still like Chronicles of Narnia better, but he dealt with some interesting things in the Space Trilogy.

My favourite Miss Marple novels are 'Murder is Announced', and 'Sleeping Murder'. From the Poirot ones, it is currently 'Mrs McGinty's Dead' and 'the A.B.C Murders'. From Tommy and Tuppence stories I would say it is 'By the Pricking of My Thumbs'.

Haley, thanks for making this review. I’m reading through this novel as well, about halfway through. Your review is very thoughtful and in-depth. I felt the same with having my jaw dropped at various parts. Keep making more content!

This is a great idea to pick a female and male author. Your enthusiasm is contagious.

About 100 years late with the book review.

Hello Halley havent read the book yet, it has been on the book shelf for five years. Like you i thought it was a love story all my friends who read it said it was a love story even the movie which i havecnot seen . Againcthank you for ,aking it clear on what is exactly the book about. 😘😘😘🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for your honest opinion. Going to be on my TBR. 😊😊 Love your narrative 😊

I love Miss Marple! She is so fun and insightful. I love how playful she can be sometimes. I just started reading Agatha Christie this past year (bouncing around between Marple, Poirot, and Tommy & Tuppence) and am always amazed at all the little clues she sets in place that I somehow miss. I honestly thought I was good at solving mysteries before the big reveal in books... Until reading hers 😂. My favorite Miss Marple (so far) are the Tuesday Club Murders short stories. They show how her brain works a little more.

My favorite Miss Marple is Murder is Announced, but I think they are all good. I love Marple, but she's second to Poirot for me.

I started reading some Christie last year, but I've only read Hercule Poirot books. That's good to know when I start diving into Miss Marple books.Sounds like fun!

I think reading The Hobbit would be a good transition from Narnia to LOTR. It’s my fave and so much fun. I’m doing the same and collecting certain types- mine are Macmillan Collectors Library and Everymans Library. I am just getting started with these. I love findings classics out in the wild. I got a good Wind in the Willows last month. My big books this year are Moonstone and Bleak House.

Not a fan of reading. My mind starts to trail after a while if its boring or too hard. Did you find it an easy read?

I intend to start my journey with Jane this year - and this may well be the start. Thanks!

I'm glad you enjoyed Northanger Abbey so much, I think it's very underrated! I'm not familiar with this podcast, but if you are listening to it to find out more about the historical context of a novel, they did you a disservice, because it is NOT set in the Victorian era. It is set in the Regency period. When Jane Austen died, Queen Victoria had not even been born. ETA (after finishing the video--excellent review!): My favorite when I was younger was S&S. Now my favorite is Persuasion, I read it every year. My least favorite is Emma--I think NA is way funnier! And more romantic--but in a real way, as you said. I love Henry Tilney, and their dynamic together.

Northanger is my favorite Austen. Loved hearing your thoughts.

I have been so excited to hear your review of this book! I'm glad that you liked it. I think that it is such a funny story and I adore Mr. Tilney's character. It is definitely one of my favorite books of Austen's. My daughter finished this book a couple of months ago and it is now one of her favorite books as well.

❤ I have a goal to read the LOTR trilogy this year too. I’m going to try to slow my reading down … 🫣

I just love hearing your goals! I think you’ll learn to love The Lord of the Rings. They intimidated me too and now I find the most comfort in them. I’m on The Return of the King and will be reading soon. ❤

I read The Hobbit in 6th grade and it became my favorite book for years. I plan to read the Lord of the Rings series for the first time this year as well! I love the Anne of Green Gables series, but never read any of Montgomery's other works. I may have to check that out. I love your idea of reading a biography about each of your authors for the year. You have some great goals for the year! My big reading goal is a deep study of the entire New Testament this year, and 52 books (at least 12 of which are intended to be about spiritual growth). Your other goals have inspired me to think about some additional things that I can work towards this year as well!

Great goals for yourself for 2025!

Woo hoo! LM Montgomery! I’ll be re-reading the Anne series and some of her other books this year with Chantel’s challenge . The Emily series and The Blue Castle are some of my favorites too.

Tolkien! Yay! They are so good.

WOW! I am so happy to find another Christian classics reader on booktube 🤩 this year is also going to be my Tolkien year so I am excited to follow along the journey 🫶

I’m so glad you are doing this again! After watching your videos last year, I decided to choose a male/female author for my year as well. I chose J.R.R. Tolkien as well and started reading The Hobbit in November and The Fellowship of the Ring which I finished at the end of December. I chose Elizabeth Gaskell as my female author after reading North and South during Victober and fell in love with her writing. My goal is to read all of her main novels and I will be reading The Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales of Numenor if I can get through Tolkien’s main works. I’m also going to be reading The Aeneid in August to hopefully pair with Dante’s Inferno since Virgil is one of his guides. I’m excited to hear how your reading journey goes!

I love love your goals!! I love those Everyman's books too and have started collecting them too. Yes to including the Lord in your homeschooling and every day life. It's living your faith! We did a Bible curriculum when mine were young and we homeschooled. Or even keeping it simple with a simple guide to reading a small Bible section and work on memory verses.

Frankenstein is a sort of emotion and nostalgia. 😇

Single best piece of writing ever put to print. Paradise Lost: the answer to the question, What if we had a real writer try his hand at the book of Genesis.

Hi! Thanks for your review. I have a question and maybe you can help me. It is why is important to believe Adam and Eve where real? I mean I don't have to believe the three little pigs were real to understand it is better to build a solid house, and since the message is the important bit, why the characters being real or not should matter? Well, thanks again for this review!

Terrible people? They are just ordinary Yorkshire folk!

Wow, this book sounds right up my alley. Thanks for sharing it!

Added to my tbr. Thanks!

I started reading the book after watching a conversation between Clarkson and Malcom Guite, but DNF because I felt I was not grasping her concepts. Like you, I’m a lover of words and language so I was surprised and disappointed that I wasn’t enjoying it. Maybe the timing just wasn’t right. Thanks to your encouragement I will give it another try.

I've been wanting to read this book for a while! Great review, makes me even more eager to read it.

🎉🎉 so glad you loved it. It’s one of my favorites! The Netflix adaptation is really well done too.