วีดีโอ

Hope you have fun in California!

I love love Hacks! I hope you have a wonderful trip!

❤️❤️❤️

I think I would still be paranoid about the melted wax. I am also cautious with candles because of my cat. I very seldom burn them and only when I am in the room, then I put them out before leaving.

💕✨💕✨💕✨

I didn't get my license until I was 20.... 1 month later got into an accident. That was 29 years ago. Haven't driven since lol. It's easier to manage than many imagine 😊

Before ever reading him I always thought about Zola as a kind of forbidding writer who dealt with antiquated themes, but after starting Germinal recently, I’ve quickly realized how wrong I was. I don’t know that I’ll ever read the whole cycle, but it’s an attractive idea.

Oh the garden is lovely! 🌸 the kittehs are enjoying it…naughty Lilly 😁 you’ll have to put some wire mesh around the bottom of shed. Enjoy your trip and take a clip for us! x

The flowers look lovely. I'm sure the kitties are thrilled with more birds stopping by your hard. 😂

Your flower garden is so beautiful. ❤️🌼

nice home tour.

The Dream is a very different king of novel for Zola. I enjoyed it, and read it very quickly.

Nice to see you. Glad you're enjoying the summer vacation outside of the fatigue. An interesting mix of books! I have such a hard time with horror movies. I can read them but I hate the jump scares in movies with the sudden loud noises.

Haha . . . I am always adjusting my “life hacks” … love that term.

It’s wonderful to hear from you! You always have such interesting reads! It’s fun to see what type of Summer reading you’re getting into.

Interesting set of books! Glad you are enjoying your reading!

Hi, like you I'm currently reading all the Rougon Macquart novels, in the new(-ish) Oxford World Classics editions. I read four or five of them in the 1980s in older translations. I'm using a reading order from Wikipedia.

Psychogeography is something I am also very interested in. London Orbital by Iain Sinclair (whom Alan Moore considers an influence) was an interesting read. Would you recommend any other authors who deal with this in their fiction? W G Sebald maybe but I didn't vibe with Rings of Saturn or The Emigrants and Austerlitz was just okay for me. I am interested to reread Jerusalem, when I read it first time last year, I got lost a bit.

Lovely to see your face! The problem I find with fatigue (as opposed to just being tired) is that just stopping doesn't help, you really need time to recover. And then you go back to work and start the cycle over again 🙃 I always appreciate the way you talk about books!

I'm glad you're doing well, other than fatigue. These are great reviews! You always go into just the right level of detail about the books and your analyses are clearly well thought out.

Oh, I know the kitties love wandering back there. ❤️😻

Bumblebees 💚

Really lovely pages! I enjoy all the woodland animal stickers as well.

Pretty yard, very peaceful. I like the cottage garden flowerbed. I would love to do something like that here, but this is not the year for it.

You’re reminding me not to sleep on reading more Dickens! I’ve only read David Copperfield and Great Expectations but you’ve made me more interested in continuing to read more from him. I’ve really enjoyed listening to his work on audio too. He does characterization and found family so well.

Reading room is room or museum, other buildings where people can read quietly and conversation is not usually allowed. Thank you for giving us Chance to read and learn . Happy reading.

Filpthrough means to look quickly through book , magazine, website without reading everything. Synonyms filck through , check over . Journel is daily written record of usually personal experiences . Thank you mrs Cathie for giving us chance to read and learn new words and new information. Iam Arabic lady subscriber to several British and American TH-cam channels.

Lovely pages! 😍

Thanks for reminding me what a great book Nicholas Nickleby is! It's been many years since reading it, but the school scenes stick with me, still. I believe there was a television adaptation of it back in the day, on PBS?

Love your cosy room ❤️ The postcards look lovely. I cover everything in scarves and throws too 😊

Your space is very calm, I loved this tour (and am inspired!)

Your room is lovely, I love the lights you have put around and the postcards. It's very much your own personal space! And kitties gotta do, what kitties gotta do - mine usually 5 minutes after I've gone to bed so I have to get up again.

So beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. 🌷

She might not know but I know how cute she is! ❤

I love Simon Vance reading Dickens! He hasn't read them all, but I think I have all of the ones he narrates. I particularly like his reading of Little Dorrit, especially his portrayal of Mr Dorrit as he goes into his decline. I read somewhere that Newman Noggs (my favorite character) is sort of an alter ego of Nicholas Nickleby. This was my mom's favorite Dickens--she saw a two-night (9 hours!) stage adaptation done by the RSC in London back in the 1980s, I think.

Loved getting to know your kitties! Lily looks so much like my tabby boy Bowie! ❤

I love the sweet little kitty purrs when you talk to them. ❤️😻

I've always been interested in the Grimm fairytales. I had never considered the history of the areas they grew up in and the level of education they were able to receive in the 18th and 19th centuries. You've inspired me to seek out more information about their lives! And whatever made them so interested in these kind of tales.... thank you!

That was a very interesting video. Thank you Cathy.

I thought The Woman Upstairs was underrated and still think about it sometimes. I remember it got a lot of criticism for the protagonist being so angry. I think if it had come out a couple of years later, when the me too movement was starting, it might have been more well received. So I do recommend it. Good to see the kitties and your Vlog.

Your kitties are adorable :)

Three Musketeers was the first "proper" (big) book that I read at the age of 10 or 11. I loved it at the time and it was a page turner. Not sure what I would think about it now if I reread it. I have also watched several films based on it over the years. When I was in middle school, our group of four friends were seriously playing musketeers on ongoing basis. I was Athos. We had a lot of adventures :)

What a lovely vlog. 😊. I really enjoyed Quiet. The Susan Cain book.

How are you doing mrs Cathie. Honestly I studied English both language and literature till second year and left college it’s will of god not mine . Iam Arabic lady subscriber to several British and American TH-cam channels since Christmas 2019 . Iam so happy to be subscriber in your channel I read about your profile you are assistant teaching professor in USA German literature, critical thoughts in 19 th century, German film , German women writers , European fairlytales ,European romanticism, American transcendentalism ( philosophy in 19 th century which based on material things ). I gathered main information about Grimm brothers Jacob and Wilhelm were German academics who together collected and published folklore brothers are among best known storytellers of folktales , popularizing stories our favorite childhood memories such as Cinderella, frog prince, Hansel and gretel, town musicians , sleeping beauty , Snow White, rapunzel . First collection of folktale , children and house hold tales began publication in 1812 . Legacy Berlin memorial plaque . Design of front of 1992 1000 marking showing brothers Grimm . There are several adaptations such as wonderful world of brothers Grimm film in 1961. Grimm variation Netflix anime series in 2024 featuring retelling of six of grim brothers tales. Thank for giving us chance to read learn new information improve our English as well . Actually English is international language we last decade in Arabic countries began to teach English since kindergartens. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .

A Tale of Two Cities is my favourite, I wasn't a lover of Nicholas Nickelby, but perhaps preferred the beginning of the book. I have yet to read Our Mutual Friend and Great Expectations, which I will be doing in June and July.