"So... these little women... how little are they?" sorry the way you said that reminded me of the episode of friends where joey reads little women and rachel reads the shining
The list of books: The Odyssey Dracula Frankenstein Villette Great expectations Tess of the D’Urbevilles Pride and prejudice Persuasion Northanger abbey Little women
charmoli apum khrime It’s the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, an ex-student in St Petersburg who believes that great people sometimes have to break the law and do bad things for overall good. He’s impoverished, alone and without money. He decides that he should kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, then descends into paranoia, disgust, nihilism and questions the nature of what he did and whether he should be punished. It’s hard to describe, that was quite a shoddy description, but it’s an exceptional book and Dostoyevsky’s writing is sublime.
I don’t really know why but I really like your rhetoric! I could listen to your voice talking about books for hours and hours straight. And I also enjoy the fact that the books you review are not as popular and well-known as those read and analysed by other booktubers. Thank you for recommending such good literary works😊
I totally feel the pain of being a public school grad in literature classes lol. When I got to college I ended up surrounded by a lot of people with much fancier educations than mine, and oh man I had never heard of half of the books everyone took for granted we had already read. The upside of that, though, is that the literature I read in highschool was a lot more diverse. Seems like a lot of my classmates came from backgrounds where they were reading near exclusively old white men in school, and I hadn't. Also, as the person who always follows up with "Have you read Villette?" when someone says they love Jane Eyre, I'm glad you gave it a chance. My reason for asking that question all the time is just to get more people to read the book so I can have more conversations about it lol. Imo it's not just better than Jane Eyre, it's better than anything. Best book ever. I will die on that hill.
I think you're probably right about the diversity thing. If you spend all your time reading the books you're "supposed" to then you'll never get to half the books you need to. There are so many life lessons that old white men from Greece can't teach you.
Not necessarily I had to study The Odyssey for my Classical Civilisation course and we didn't read The Illiad. The Odyssey it's self already shows us a brief understanding of key characters in The Illiad and what went on. But a bit of background information would help with the understanding of the hero's Odysseus encounters in the underworld but overall as long as they person has some understanding of Greek mythology it it totally fine to read without The Illiad.
the red/orange aestethic of your hair and makeup and your black clothes are bringing me back to my paramore era! and you are so enjoyable to watch. quirky and fun and not pretentious or snobbish!
I’m reading Little Women for the first time right now and I agree it is slow but at the same time it’s so great!! Im a little more than half way through and it has taken me a while but I’ve been loving it so definitely keep pushing through it!
I want to read it but like when I watch a movie before the book i just don’t like reading the book because when I read a book I want a movie afterwards because it’s like the book is coming to life so when it’s the other way it just doesn’t work for me
The reason it says "an heroine" at 13:07 is because in England the "h" is silent. The "n" is meant to distinguish the first word from the second because having two vowel sounds next to each other would be awkward and difficult to say with an English accent. I also noticed things like that when I first read Pride and Prejudice! Also, I totally agree with the Little Women thing. Slow slice of life reads are best reserved for stressful times in your life, when you need a refuge from the chaos of life.
Villette is an excellent book. It takes a long time to read because of all the French you have to keep looking up in the back(at least in the version I read), but so worth the time. Charlotte’s descriptions are just mesmerizing in some parts.
I have at least two classics on my to-read list for this year: The Count of Monte Cristo and Crime and Punishment. I actually started reading Crime and Punishment first, but I was kind of bored with the beginning, so I put it on hold and moved on to the Count of Monte Cristo, which I'm finding pretty enjoyable.
Bleak House is actually so good just make sure to keep track of the characters' names and general situations (I studied Bleak House in college and like my professor literally printed out a separate worksheet for us to fill out because there are so many of them) and you'll be able to enjoy it.
Great video. Im going throuh alot of my classics this year. Particularly finishing Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and starting Crime and Punishment by Froydo Dostoyevsky (which i highly recommend). I finished Dracula last year and Frankenstein a few years before. And i have to say, given the years both novels were written and published, you can see a dielectric tension between the novels. Each authors seems to agree, and disagree about alot of things. Particularly discussions about the progression of science, the anxieties of the time, the concept of faith, human nature and the sources of evil in parallel to good and where each resided. Fascinating read. I like to call them sibling books. Gothic masterpieces in spades. Another good one to look for is Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange case of Dr Jeckle and Mr. Hyde. It completes a appropriate trinity. Althouh i tend to forget simillar books that deserve its place among this house of works. It'll come to me. Lol happy reading.
I'm british and i studied in secondary, school classical history (which aged 11 i thought was to do with literature, i was wrong) it was ancient history, greek and roman and i was hooked. i had to study the odyssey in great detail and it was amazing, i still love it now
Hello, One of my favorite books so far this year is Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë. When you read it you won't regret, believe me. It's amazing! Some of your books are also in my list for 2020. Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
No offense to you, I personally really hate Wuthering Heights. Something about the characters all being unlikable, and the aspect of supernatural just makes this book super not for me.
@@bruhkent6895 I always felt bad for not liking wuthering heights its my least favourite Brontë novel... the characters were so unlikable that i couldn’t bring myself to enjoy the story. After rereading it this year, i actually started hating it ?? Idk
Haha you're so funny. Was only listening to the audio of your clip and you could be a comedian... or a radio jockey! And yes, Pride and Prejudice/Persuasion are my favourite Austen novels too! Not sure about the little leprechauns though haha
I HIGHLY recommend my forever favorite classic in my whole life, im planning to read more classics because of this book and its The Picture of Dorian Gray i dont know if u read it but I recommend everyone idc
I'm surprised you haven't gotten into little women before, it is one of my all-time favs. Then again when I go back and reread certain books I know I loved I'm often surprised at how hard it is to get into it. Great video! I've written down a few of these that I haven't read and put them on my list too.
The odyssey is a must-read! I studied classics at uni (as in Ancient Greek and Latin texts) and there is so many literary references that would be lost on me if I hadn’t read the odyssey and Iliad
I totally agree. Frankenstein is one of my all time fav books of all time and of course Jane Eyre is on the top of my list.The book of my heart!Honestly, i've read it countless times
The Odyssey is sooo so good, also if you ever see this comment I know I’m beyond late the abridged The Count of Monte Cristo is INCREDIBLE. The unabridged is a behemoth but if you like Six of Crows you’ll LOVE Monte Cristo!
I have that same copy of Little Women! But yeah, the book took me from November-July when it typically takes me a couple days tops to finish a book sooo def a slow one lollll
If you haven’t seen the film about Mary Shelley you definitely should! It’s in Netflix in Finland at least, not sure about the US. Haven’t actually read Frankenstein and had no interest in reading it before I saw the film. It brings insight to her writing and it gave me a totally different view of her book, similar to that you explained!
Okay, so Little Women, for me, was slow up until chapter 3. Then onwards I could NOT put it down. I can honestly say that this book has and will continue to influence me for the rest of my life! An absolute MUST! xx
If you want to stay along the Gothic stream, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis is a trip. Also, I feel you would probably enjoy Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Great Expectations is a great novel, though I wish I could have read it as it was written - in periodicals. It takes a bit to get into it, but once connections start happening, it's beyond fantastic. Happy reading!
I had read most of the books mentioned, need to read 3 of the books. Persuasion is actually my favorite Austen novel! Little women, well I didn't liked it the first time. But decided to re-read it after the movie from last year and actually loved it. I need to re-read Frankenstein, that's on my list this year.
Update: try reading little women in kindle. It worked for me the second time. I have a physical copy buuuuut the letter font wasn't for me, and probably that's why I didn't like it the first time (because it was a headache).
I love watching book vlogs!! And i think you’re the only one who has made videos on classics!! Love them ❤️ planning to finish villette soon, too. Im stuck at 41% though 🤦🏻♀️
If you enjoy The Odyssey, read The Aeneid, on similar theme. Hardy is a wonderful writer. I'm currently reading Woodlanders. Then Far from the Madding Crowd (with two excellent film versions - Christie/ Mulligan).
I have also reread P&P a lot and love Frankenstein, yet have had Dracula sitting on my shelf for years and feel like a horror fraud. It creeped me out to hear some of my own thoughts come out of your mouth, but I think it’s a sign that I can trust your recommendations lol. Maybe I should try dusting off that copy of Dracula. I feel called out but I needed it. Subscribed. 😆
I loved Frankenstein. I read it for my first time this past October and like you said the monster just wants someone. So good. I want to reread it again also.
I am not a rereader either, but if I did forget about my massive TBR and decide to reread something it would definitely be Pride & Prejudice and Little Women. I hope you can get farther in Little Women- it does pick up the pace after a bit and turned into one of my favorite reads from last year!
I just got done with the Odyssey. It was a surprisingly fun read. I was surprised of how much of it took place in Ithaca instead of the famous fantastical locations, but I ended up finding the whole killing the suitors thing more fascinating than the famous stuff.
I’m planning to start reading some classics and what made me think about starting was twilight (I know I sound stupid but I’m sure some twilight fans will understand why). My mom decided to buy me that same copy of the complete novels of Jane Austen and I’m definitely excited. I also now own Jane eyre and wuthering height
I love Frankenstein and Pride and Prejudice,they’re my favourite books of all time with Wuthering Heights.I tried reading Dracula but I can never go beyond page 50 because I find it boring.I’m currently reading Tess and it’s going really well,Hardy’s writing is amazing.
ooooooo man if you though Little Women was slow just you wait for the SLOG that is The Odyssey! Would recommend reading while listening to the majestic tones of Ian McKellen, that got me through my classics course in year 12 x
I still need to read "Frankenstein"! Hoping I love it. But I did pull the cliché move on Dracula a few years ago. Read it for Halloween and absolutely LOOOOVED it! The end left me slightly underwhelmed, but still a great read!
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy is actually a HAPPY book and it’s actually pretty much a romance novel, so I would highly recommend it if you haven’t seen it
3:18 My senior English class is actually going to be reading Frankenstein somewhere later in the year and I'm quite excited for it because my older sister has her copy of it from when she was in high school and I can't wait to read it :) ♡♡♡
Tip for reading Bleak House - Watch the BBC adaption with Gillen Anderson first. That's what I did. Visually seeing all the charactersfirst I think helps. Also I've watched Little Dorrit first because I couldn't get into the novel. Still have to read that one. Listening to you talk about how Jude the Obscure made you feel, was basically my reaction to Tess of the d'Ubervilles. Reading a Hardy novel is never gonna uplift your spirits, except maybe Far from the Madding Crowd.
I loved Frankenstein too. Jude wrecked me too. If you want emotional wreckage, Germinal by Emile Zola or Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck ( I’m still traumatised by that one!) it’s great to see a book tuber reading widely and not just YA.
I want to read Classics too! This is a good Video to start with ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I've Read the Illiad... And i haven't read the Odyssey, and other classics but im planning to ❤️
Little Women is a TOUGH read but there are some chapters peppered throughout that keep you engaged. I LOVED the movie too but I actually preferred the way the ending occurred in the book! It was so lovely. But it was hard to push through the “filler” chapters. However those boring filler chapters really help you grasp each character’s growth and motivations more, even if you don’t realize it.
i've re watched pride n prejudice with keira knightly in it and she was awesome! she nailed the character. i actually believed lizzy is living inside her.haha. i have the book with me but i did not read everything. i skip chaptrs and only read my favourite dialogues/scenes...and oh, little women, i bought it last year and i'm still at page errm..5, i think..haha..i know there's a movies with emma watson playing one of the sisters. i think i need to watch the movie first then maybe after that, i'll continue. Hi there Noelle. I just found out about your youtube channel today and i will buy Ready player one, as suggested by you. Thanks!
Okay, just discovered your channel and I just got to say 1. I loved everything in this video 2. You’re an absolute queen, I men so pretty and your personality is enchanting 3. Your humor is just...same. Just same.✨🌸📖
An ANGEL! AN ICON! I love The Odyssey and will scream about it with you while you read. Also, I want to read all of these books (except Dickens), are we the same? Book club?
Definitely need to read all these classics. I used to love all the books we got assigned in school but haven't been reading like I want for a while. Hopefully can get back into it with one of these books :)
I loved the northanger abbey pbs movie as a kid but the Tess of the durbervilles miniseries absolutely shattered my heart. Both books are amazing though lmao
Oh Northanger Abbey is my favorite Austen! I hope you like it! I also really only associate Dickens with Dickens' Fair because I go every year. This year I want to at least read one, I was thinking Oliver Twist though
Okay are we the same person?? I have almost all of the same book on my to read list. I loveeeeee Jane Eyre!! And I never re-read books (except To Kill a Mocking Bird, I read that twice). From Jane Austen, Ive only read Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensiblity, but Persuasion sounds interesting so I might read it.
My wife got me a huge anthology of the collected works of all the Bronte sisters the year we met and I haven't picked it up yet because it weighs at least 20lbs 😂 but now I need to so I can read Vilette! Jane Eyre is also one of my favorites.
aha we have so many books in common for our classics tbr this year - dracula, frankenstein, great expectations, persuasion, pride & prejudice AND northanger abbey lmao
I'd love to read and try Dracula and Frankenstein as I'm a big horror fan myself and I've wanted to try out Little Women because I wanted to see last years film but I'm not sure if It would keep me captivated enough! Although I've heard such great things about it being such a feminist read that it still makes me want to pick it up! Maybe reading it to the audiobook would help keep you going past page 12 ;)
I loved Tess!!!! It reminds me a lot of Jane eyre. I read villette for my English Novel class last semester! I have been trying to read Dracula for a long time, but I really need to intentionally read it and finish this year! Great video!!
Hiya,I'm new to your channel so I'm kind of binge watching your videos :) I'm Greek so yes, I know the Odyssey because we had to study it at school as part of the ancient greek literature...I did enjoy the story but I think I would have prefered to read it in modern language so I could get lost in the story rather than having to translate all the way along! Dracula, I'm currently reading (50% into the story) and I'm loving it! And that comes from someone who is not a huge fan of horror...and who is not used to reading a ton of classics!It is definately a cool book to read! Frankenstein is on my TBR! :)
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"So... these little women... how little are they?" sorry the way you said that reminded me of the episode of friends where joey reads little women and rachel reads the shining
Mads Liddell I LOVE THAT EPISODE
😂😂 I love that episode.
Rachel with that potato masher thingy XD
do you want to put the book in the freezer?
It's the first thought that comes to mind whenever someone mentions little women to me😝😂
“if its better than jane eyre, why havent i heard of it???” i lost my mind
HAHAHAH I’m glad someone thought it was funny
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY !!!! I JUST READ IT AND I'M IN LOVE WITH OSCAR WILDE NOW
Really good book! My favorite my Oscar. I have 7 different copies of Dorian's story.🤷
The list of books:
The Odyssey
Dracula
Frankenstein
Villette
Great expectations
Tess of the D’Urbevilles
Pride and prejudice
Persuasion
Northanger abbey
Little women
Anna Miranda thanks
:)
Throw in Ben Hur- holy cow it’s good
Thanks for saving us all time!
An august list! ❤️
I can wholeheartedly recommend Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I’ve read a lot of classics and it’s easily one of my favourites!
One of the best. Anything written by Dostoyevsky is incredible.
What is it about?
I definitely agree. If anyone decides to read it, please get the Constance Garnett translation. A bad translation can ruin the whole thing.
charmoli apum khrime It’s the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, an ex-student in St Petersburg who believes that great people sometimes have to break the law and do bad things for overall good. He’s impoverished, alone and without money. He decides that he should kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, then descends into paranoia, disgust, nihilism and questions the nature of what he did and whether he should be punished. It’s hard to describe, that was quite a shoddy description, but it’s an exceptional book and Dostoyevsky’s writing is sublime.
it's the best thing I've ever read in my life, I've read it a year ago and i still can't get over it
I don’t really know why but I really like your rhetoric! I could listen to your voice talking about books for hours and hours straight. And I also enjoy the fact that the books you review are not as popular and well-known as those read and analysed by other booktubers. Thank you for recommending such good literary works😊
Pride and Prejudice is one of my favourite books. It's absolutely amazing.
I totally feel the pain of being a public school grad in literature classes lol. When I got to college I ended up surrounded by a lot of people with much fancier educations than mine, and oh man I had never heard of half of the books everyone took for granted we had already read. The upside of that, though, is that the literature I read in highschool was a lot more diverse. Seems like a lot of my classmates came from backgrounds where they were reading near exclusively old white men in school, and I hadn't.
Also, as the person who always follows up with "Have you read Villette?" when someone says they love Jane Eyre, I'm glad you gave it a chance. My reason for asking that question all the time is just to get more people to read the book so I can have more conversations about it lol. Imo it's not just better than Jane Eyre, it's better than anything. Best book ever. I will die on that hill.
I think you're probably right about the diversity thing. If you spend all your time reading the books you're "supposed" to then you'll never get to half the books you need to. There are so many life lessons that old white men from Greece can't teach you.
Now imagine what happens with us, the Latin American studens
@@katherinarenas8758 ooooh I feel
any time i hear "Jude" and "my heart was shattered" in one sentence, i get war flashbacks to A Little Life
You talk about your mom often in your videos, and from what i’ve heard she seems to be an amazing lady! I wish my mom would discuss books with me lol
Picture of Dorian Gray is a must read. One of my favorite classics.
Frankenstein is literally the most angsty glorious gothic masterpiece of tortured souls and drama and gloom ever
Wow. I have to read it now lol
Elizabeth Bennett is my favorite fictional book character of all time. Jo March is my second :)
If you’re going the read The Odyssey, you should probably read Illiad first.
Not necessarily I had to study The Odyssey for my Classical Civilisation course and we didn't read The Illiad. The Odyssey it's self already shows us a brief understanding of key characters in The Illiad and what went on.
But a bit of background information would help with the understanding of the hero's Odysseus encounters in the underworld but overall as long as they person has some understanding of Greek mythology it it totally fine to read without The Illiad.
ABSOLUTELY!
the red/orange aestethic of your hair and makeup and your black clothes are bringing me back to my paramore era! and you are so enjoyable to watch. quirky and fun and not pretentious or snobbish!
I’m reading Little Women for the first time right now and I agree it is slow but at the same time it’s so great!! Im a little more than half way through and it has taken me a while but I’ve been loving it so definitely keep pushing through it!
I want to read it but like when I watch a movie before the book i just don’t like reading the book because when I read a book I want a movie afterwards because it’s like the book is coming to life so when it’s the other way it just doesn’t work for me
Lucky you... Wish i could read it over again like i am reading it for the first time
The reason it says "an heroine" at 13:07 is because in England the "h" is silent. The "n" is meant to distinguish the first word from the second because having two vowel sounds next to each other would be awkward and difficult to say with an English accent. I also noticed things like that when I first read Pride and Prejudice! Also, I totally agree with the Little Women thing. Slow slice of life reads are best reserved for stressful times in your life, when you need a refuge from the chaos of life.
Villette is an excellent book. It takes a long time to read because of all the French you have to keep looking up in the back(at least in the version I read), but so worth the time. Charlotte’s descriptions are just mesmerizing in some parts.
If you haven’t already, read “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt. It’s just so damn good.
I come back to this video every once in a while. It just gives me motivation to get back to reading
I just love this video so much
I have at least two classics on my to-read list for this year: The Count of Monte Cristo and Crime and Punishment.
I actually started reading Crime and Punishment first, but I was kind of bored with the beginning, so I put it on hold and moved on to the Count of Monte Cristo, which I'm finding pretty enjoyable.
"One hundred years of solitude" is my favourite classic ever, you should definitely give it a chance!😊
Bleak House is actually so good just make sure to keep track of the characters' names and general situations (I studied Bleak House in college and like my professor literally printed out a separate worksheet for us to fill out because there are so many of them) and you'll be able to enjoy it.
Me: saving all my best horror books for halloween.
Noelle: uuu, you’re a cliché sis
Me: *cries in cliché*
😂😂😂 I’m sorry!!!
Great video. Im going throuh alot of my classics this year. Particularly finishing Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and starting Crime and Punishment by Froydo Dostoyevsky (which i highly recommend). I finished Dracula last year and Frankenstein a few years before. And i have to say, given the years both novels were written and published, you can see a dielectric tension between the novels. Each authors seems to agree, and disagree about alot of things. Particularly discussions about the progression of science, the anxieties of the time, the concept of faith, human nature and the sources of evil in parallel to good and where each resided. Fascinating read. I like to call them sibling books. Gothic masterpieces in spades. Another good one to look for is Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange case of Dr Jeckle and Mr. Hyde. It completes a appropriate trinity. Althouh i tend to forget simillar books that deserve its place among this house of works. It'll come to me. Lol happy reading.
These amazon classics edition are such a DREAM
I'm british and i studied in secondary, school classical history (which aged 11 i thought was to do with literature, i was wrong) it was ancient history, greek and roman and i was hooked. i had to study the odyssey in great detail and it was amazing, i still love it now
Frankenstein is my absolute favourite novel of all time. To think Shelley was 19 when she wrote it is crazy!
Your sense of humor is *chef's kiss*. New subscriber here! Cracked me up.
Wow your makeup is just awesome!! Loved it so much💛
Татьяна Рубцова thank you so much!!
Hello, One of my favorite books so far this year is Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë. When you read it you won't regret, believe me. It's amazing!
Some of your books are also in my list for 2020. Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
YES! Definitely one of my favourites-it’s so beautifully written
You are absolutely right. Wuthering Heights is an incredible book, my absolute favourite. You should look for some of Emily's poetry too.
No offense to you, I personally really hate Wuthering Heights. Something about the characters all being unlikable, and the aspect of supernatural just makes this book super not for me.
@@bruhkent6895 I always felt bad for not liking wuthering heights its my least favourite Brontë novel... the characters were so unlikable that i couldn’t bring myself to enjoy the story. After rereading it this year, i actually started hating it ?? Idk
@@noname-dk3wi I hated it the first time I read it, it was for school maybe 10th grade but I reread it later in life and I LOVED it
Pride and prejudice deserves every reread 😂❤️ It's probably my favourite book of all time!
Haha you're so funny. Was only listening to the audio of your clip and you could be a comedian... or a radio jockey! And yes, Pride and Prejudice/Persuasion are my favourite Austen novels too! Not sure about the little leprechauns though haha
I HIGHLY recommend my forever favorite classic in my whole life, im planning to read more classics because of this book and its The Picture of Dorian Gray i dont know if u read it but I recommend everyone idc
I'm surprised you haven't gotten into little women before, it is one of my all-time favs. Then again when I go back and reread certain books I know I loved I'm often surprised at how hard it is to get into it. Great video! I've written down a few of these that I haven't read and put them on my list too.
The odyssey is a must-read! I studied classics at uni (as in Ancient Greek and Latin texts) and there is so many literary references that would be lost on me if I hadn’t read the odyssey and Iliad
I totally agree. Frankenstein is one of my all time fav books of all time and of course Jane Eyre is on the top of my list.The book of my heart!Honestly, i've read it countless times
Tess of the d'Urbervilles is AMAZING I am so excited for you to read it omg it is the only book that has made me cry
The Odyssey is sooo so good, also if you ever see this comment I know I’m beyond late the abridged The Count of Monte Cristo is INCREDIBLE. The unabridged is a behemoth but if you like Six of Crows you’ll LOVE Monte Cristo!
I have that same copy of Little Women! But yeah, the book took me from November-July when it typically takes me a couple days tops to finish a book sooo def a slow one lollll
Classics are... Mind blow!!! I loved your channel!!!
“I know what I mean, and that’s what counts.” 😂🙈😭 Same, Noelle, same. It me.
I read a couple of books regularly. Pride and Prejudice, I read it and then start again and The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy trilogy of four books.
If you haven’t seen the film about Mary Shelley you definitely should! It’s in Netflix in Finland at least, not sure about the US. Haven’t actually read Frankenstein and had no interest in reading it before I saw the film. It brings insight to her writing and it gave me a totally different view of her book, similar to that you explained!
Okay, so Little Women, for me, was slow up until chapter 3. Then onwards I could NOT put it down. I can honestly say that this book has and will continue to influence me for the rest of my life! An absolute MUST! xx
Noelle: "Oh hi! That was a book!"
Also Noelle: "Mom it's fine it did not break if you can believe it." 😂😂😂
If you want to stay along the Gothic stream, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis is a trip. Also, I feel you would probably enjoy Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Great Expectations is a great novel, though I wish I could have read it as it was written - in periodicals. It takes a bit to get into it, but once connections start happening, it's beyond fantastic. Happy reading!
Little women is one of my favourite books, the films are great but the book is so much better! I hope you love it.
I had read most of the books mentioned, need to read 3 of the books. Persuasion is actually my favorite Austen novel! Little women, well I didn't liked it the first time. But decided to re-read it after the movie from last year and actually loved it. I need to re-read Frankenstein, that's on my list this year.
Update: try reading little women in kindle. It worked for me the second time. I have a physical copy buuuuut the letter font wasn't for me, and probably that's why I didn't like it the first time (because it was a headache).
I love watching book vlogs!! And i think you’re the only one who has made videos on classics!! Love them ❤️ planning to finish villette soon, too. Im stuck at 41% though 🤦🏻♀️
If you enjoy The Odyssey, read The Aeneid, on similar theme.
Hardy is a wonderful writer. I'm currently reading Woodlanders.
Then Far from the Madding Crowd (with two excellent film versions - Christie/ Mulligan).
If you haven't read "A tree grows in Brooklyn" , that's a great one! Actually my all time favorite book. I just loves the way she views the world!
SAME it’s the best!!
I have also reread P&P a lot and love Frankenstein, yet have had Dracula sitting on my shelf for years and feel like a horror fraud. It creeped me out to hear some of my own thoughts come out of your mouth, but I think it’s a sign that I can trust your recommendations lol. Maybe I should try dusting off that copy of Dracula. I feel called out but I needed it. Subscribed. 😆
I loved Frankenstein. I read it for my first time this past October and like you said the monster just wants someone. So good. I want to reread it again also.
I am not a rereader either, but if I did forget about my massive TBR and decide to reread something it would definitely be Pride & Prejudice and Little Women. I hope you can get farther in Little Women- it does pick up the pace after a bit and turned into one of my favorite reads from last year!
I just got done with the Odyssey. It was a surprisingly fun read. I was surprised of how much of it took place in Ithaca instead of the famous fantastical locations, but I ended up finding the whole killing the suitors thing more fascinating than the famous stuff.
I’m planning to start reading some classics and what made me think about starting was twilight (I know I sound stupid but I’m sure some twilight fans will understand why). My mom decided to buy me that same copy of the complete novels of Jane Austen and I’m definitely excited. I also now own Jane eyre and wuthering height
I love Frankenstein and Pride and Prejudice,they’re my favourite books of all time with Wuthering Heights.I tried reading Dracula but I can never go beyond page 50 because I find it boring.I’m currently reading Tess and it’s going really well,Hardy’s writing is amazing.
I totally recommend reading little women. It is an amazing story and so cozy and makes u feel warm inside.
ooooooo man if you though Little Women was slow just you wait for the SLOG that is The Odyssey! Would recommend reading while listening to the majestic tones of Ian McKellen, that got me through my classics course in year 12 x
I still need to read "Frankenstein"! Hoping I love it. But I did pull the cliché move on Dracula a few years ago. Read it for Halloween and absolutely LOOOOVED it! The end left me slightly underwhelmed, but still a great read!
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy is actually a HAPPY book and it’s actually pretty much a romance novel, so I would highly recommend it if you haven’t seen it
I got that same collection of Jane Austen for Valentine’s Day!! It’s freaking gorgeous
perfect background music! trying to read more classics too
OMG that Jane Austen book cover is BEAUTIFUL!!! Periwinkle dreams. Jealous beyond belief
3:18 My senior English class is actually going to be reading Frankenstein somewhere later in the year and I'm quite excited for it because my older sister has her copy of it from when she was in high school and I can't wait to read it :) ♡♡♡
Tip for reading Bleak House - Watch the BBC adaption with Gillen Anderson first. That's what I did. Visually seeing all the charactersfirst I think helps. Also I've watched Little Dorrit first because I couldn't get into the novel. Still have to read that one.
Listening to you talk about how Jude the Obscure made you feel, was basically my reaction to Tess of the d'Ubervilles. Reading a Hardy novel is never gonna uplift your spirits, except maybe Far from the Madding Crowd.
My dad read Great Expectations to my brother and I when we were like 6 and- is this why I am the way I am?
Am a spaniard, we were read Don Quixote, totally feel that's why I am wired so weirdly, still love it though!
I loved Frankenstein too. Jude wrecked me too. If you want emotional wreckage, Germinal by Emile Zola or Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck ( I’m still traumatised by that one!) it’s great to see a book tuber reading widely and not just YA.
After Northanger Abbey I read Udolpho and The Monk and loved them so much. Northanger is my fave Austen.
I haven't read any of these classics! OMG! So much to read! Thank you for this great video :-)
I love the Jim Carry Christmas Carol
Ooh i read dracula this year as well! I loved it! It‘s definitely a must read for gothic literature!
I love this video! I just read Pride and Prejudice for the first time last month and it was lovely!
I want to read Classics too! This is a good Video to start with ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I've Read the Illiad... And i haven't read the Odyssey, and other classics but im planning to ❤️
I loooooooovvvvvvveeeee the semi modern classic That was then this is now! It ripped my heart out in the best way.
Little Women is a TOUGH read but there are some chapters peppered throughout that keep you engaged. I LOVED the movie too but I actually preferred the way the ending occurred in the book! It was so lovely. But it was hard to push through the “filler” chapters. However those boring filler chapters really help you grasp each character’s growth and motivations more, even if you don’t realize it.
All editions of the classics are beautiful.
Love the odessey. Have read a few of the others. All good. Favourite Frankenstein.
i've re watched pride n prejudice with keira knightly in it and she was awesome! she nailed the character. i actually believed lizzy is living inside her.haha. i have the book with me but i did not read everything. i skip chaptrs and only read my favourite dialogues/scenes...and oh, little women, i bought it last year and i'm still at page errm..5, i think..haha..i know there's a movies with emma watson playing one of the sisters. i think i need to watch the movie first then maybe after that, i'll continue. Hi there Noelle. I just found out about your youtube channel today and i will buy Ready player one, as suggested by you. Thanks!
Okay, just discovered your channel and I just got to say 1. I loved everything in this video 2. You’re an absolute queen, I men so pretty and your personality is enchanting 3. Your humor is just...same. Just same.✨🌸📖
An ANGEL! AN ICON! I love The Odyssey and will scream about it with you while you read. Also, I want to read all of these books (except Dickens), are we the same? Book club?
August Braddock book club YES OF COURSE and it needs to have the sweetest name!!!
You are AMAZING ! I laughed so hard on the first scene. That's Noelle !!💗😂
I just found you and connected on so many different levels with this video. Thank you for being so adorable and fun!
Definitely need to read all these classics. I used to love all the books we got assigned in school but haven't been reading like I want for a while. Hopefully can get back into it with one of these books :)
I loved the northanger abbey pbs movie as a kid but the Tess of the durbervilles miniseries absolutely shattered my heart. Both books are amazing though lmao
Oh Northanger Abbey is my favorite Austen! I hope you like it!
I also really only associate Dickens with Dickens' Fair because I go every year. This year I want to at least read one, I was thinking Oliver Twist though
I read the Odyssey back when I was 10. I enjoyed it.
You really won me over when you said Frankenstein was one of your favorite books. ME TOO ME TOO.
I love The Odyssey!!!!!!! It is truly incredible. Can be a little gruelling to read but I loved it so much.
Okay are we the same person?? I have almost all of the same book on my to read list. I loveeeeee Jane Eyre!! And I never re-read books (except To Kill a Mocking Bird, I read that twice). From Jane Austen, Ive only read Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensiblity, but Persuasion sounds interesting so I might read it.
My wife got me a huge anthology of the collected works of all the Bronte sisters the year we met and I haven't picked it up yet because it weighs at least 20lbs 😂 but now I need to so I can read Vilette! Jane Eyre is also one of my favorites.
aha we have so many books in common for our classics tbr this year - dracula, frankenstein, great expectations, persuasion, pride & prejudice AND northanger abbey lmao
I'd love to read and try Dracula and Frankenstein as I'm a big horror fan myself and I've wanted to try out Little Women because I wanted to see last years film but I'm not sure if It would keep me captivated enough! Although I've heard such great things about it being such a feminist read that it still makes me want to pick it up! Maybe reading it to the audiobook would help keep you going past page 12 ;)
I saw you randomly dropping the books and I connected so much I had to subscribe immediately 😂😂😂
Tess of the durbervilles is so sad , absolutely loved it’s one of the books for my A level english lit exams it’s so heart wrenching.
I took a Literature class last semester, the theme was horror. IT WAS AMAZING!
I loved Dracula!!! hard to start but picks up amazingly.
I loved Tess!!!! It reminds me a lot of Jane eyre. I read villette for my English Novel class last semester! I have been trying to read Dracula for a long time, but I really need to intentionally read it and finish this year! Great video!!
Hiya,I'm new to your channel so I'm kind of binge watching your videos :) I'm Greek so yes, I know the Odyssey because we had to study it at school as part of the ancient greek literature...I did enjoy the story but I think I would have prefered to read it in modern language so I could get lost in the story rather than having to translate all the way along! Dracula, I'm currently reading (50% into the story) and I'm loving it! And that comes from someone who is not a huge fan of horror...and who is not used to reading a ton of classics!It is definately a cool book to read!
Frankenstein is on my TBR! :)
TESS OF DURBERVILLES FREAKED ME OUT!!! I ABSOLUTELY DETESESTED THIS BOOK