You had a wonderful reading year! I am going to just reiterate what I say every time: all these are going on my TBR...I just love the way you talk about books.
I love your Favorites of the year videos and this one is no exception :) I just bought the Kate Summerscale book and am very much looking forward to reading it, along with "What matters in Jane Austen". "Jane Austen at home" was one my favorite books of 2017, it is so good! "Rebecca" is such a masterpiece, it's been a while since I read it but I remember loving every page! I must read "Maurice" at some point, I've really liked the 3 EM Forster novels that I've read so far, especially "Howards End".
Thank you for being so passionate about Olive. Something rang a bell for me and I looked up the author and realised she wrote John Halifax, Gentleman which was one of my mother's favourite books. I read it in my teens forty years ago and had completely forgotten Mrs Craik as she was known then. All enthused now about reading Olive. I am so delighted that you loved Rebecca. Two of my favourite books of 2018 were by women writers of the same generation Last September by Elizabeth Bowen and The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend-Warner. Both authors to check out when you have time.
Thanks! Olive is amazing. John Halifax, Gentleman is on my list too and I'm really excited to read it, maybe this Victober. I'll definitely have to look up those two authors you mention.
I loved this video, great amount of books, Thankyou! I read Rebecca and loved it , I want to read my cousin Rachael this year. I also read two Kristin Hannah’s books, the nightingale and the Great Alone, both wonderful!
I added 3 new books to my TBR (all non fiction), was reminded about two books I want to read (Olive and Maurice) and cannot but agree that the watchmaker of Filigree street is a wonderful new all time favourite!
So many great picks! I read Tipping the Velvet this year and it has definitely made me want to pick up more Sarah Waters. I'm hoping to pick up The Miniaturist and Days without End this year as they sound fantastic.
Ahh Days Without End has been sitting on my bookshelves for far too long but it's just gone straight to the top of my reading list. It sounds wonderful. Also, yay for Rebecca. Such a good book! I've had sadly disappointing experiences with the Du Mauriers I've read since, but Rebecca still wins. And, of course, I'm so glad to see The Miniaturist on this list. You're right that the magical element gets far more focus than it should, but what a book! :)
My favorite book was Wives and Daughters! Love Gaskell. I was so interested in reading Olive that I checked on Abes.com and found paper copies there. Look forward to reading it this year.
Oh goodness, so many fantastic recommendations, my TBR has exploded!(You had me at Hollywood on the Moon🌙 ) My favorite read of 2018 was Circe by Madeline Miller.
If you like "pattern spotting" literary criticism, have you read MIchael Ward's "Planet Narnia"? (BTW, you probably know that there's a 2011 TV movie version of "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" and a TV documentary by Lucy Worsley to accompany her book on Jane Austin's homes.)
2018 was in many ways a year of Trollope for me. I read the Chronicles of Barsetshire (minus The Warden, which I'd already read) and the Palliser series (and this year I've already finished The Way We Live Now and The Vicar of Bullhampton, and am currently reading He Knew He Was Right). I think my favourite few books of 2018 were all Trollope ones: Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Phineas Redux and The Duke's Children. If forced to pick one, I'd probably go with Phineas Redux. Can You Forgive Her? would not be far behind those ones. I must thank you for helping to inspire me to read Trollope - it has brought me a great deal of pleasure, as I hope it will for you with your Trollope Project this year. I've come to the conclusion that the Palliser series may actually be even better than the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which is saying something, so you have plenty to look forward to!
I am also currently reading he knew he was right and i am not enjoyining it ,and it is my first trollope novel. i thought i would really like it. Maybe i should have started reading something else as my first trollope.
Trollope is just so great. Giorgi, I recommend Dr Wortle's School as a good place to start with Trollope - it's a bit shorter and has less characters, that can help too. Daniel, sounds like you loved the Palliser series and Barsetshire Chronicles this year. I'm really enjoying the Pallisers so far and am really looking forward to reading them all this year.
Have you never read A Room with a View then?! I think you would love it. It was my favorite novel for years (before I read any Austen). It's a wonderful book, and the film, while good, does not do it justice at all. The novel is both funnier and darker than the film I think.
I’ve never watch around the world in 80 days but I loved the cartoon as a kid 😄 I might pick this up for nostalgia😁 I’ve only read paying guests but i loved the tv series of tipping the velvet☺️ ‘ You smell like a mermaid’ 🥰 I’ve heard it much more risqué than the tv version 😁Days without End😲😍 that book- it just builds up to so much drama I couldn’t cope towards the end😅 I loved how it wove themes of nature with what they were experiencing. Just need to say ‘ He didn’t love Rebecca’😂 I’ve never read any Patrick Gale heard could stuff and you are reassuring me🙌 I may have to pick up Mrs Gaskell and me 😲 I image this was right up your street I can see how this would get you😁 I saw the Miniaturist and liked it a lot and I’ve seen those doll houses in person they’re amazing. Maurice 🙃 I’ve still not read that but I’ve got the book and I’m often picked up for having never read it or seen the movie (I’m a bad gay) in planning to read Jayne Ayre this year I’ve not read any of the Bronte sisters but this one sounds particularly good. Olive sound ace as well regarding all the themes you mentioned especially being an artist☺️ the watch maker sound very cool added to my TBR. North and South made my top list but my favourite for the year was Let’s talk about Love by Claire Kann. I just loved it. This was a delight to watch 🙌☺️
I really must watch some of the Sarah Waters screen adaptations - I haven't seen any! And yes, Days Without End was just amazing. I think you'd like A Place Called Winter - it's so interesting. And also Maurice - Oly, it's so, so amazing, and you really must read it.
Books and Things sold! as long as you find the tv adaptation for tipping the velvet Nan is soo good Rachael Sterling is amazing as her. She captured being infatuated with someone in such a innocent and endearing way. It’s all played out in her face I loved it☺️
I've just bought Days Without End after your recommendation (Couldn't find The Watchmaker of Filigree Street in Argentina yet). I have a lot to read but I hope I'll finish it soon cause I'm so curious about this gay relationship set at that period of time. Is there a chance you'll make a separate review on it? I still remember your amazing video about LGBTQ+ themes in Victorian literature, very high quality content in this channel. Thanks for your support, it means A LOT to me and to so many others for sure! Peace and Love :D
Thanks very much :) I'm unlikely to do a separate video on Days Without End to be honest, as I usually just review books in my wrap ups, and if I do separate review videos I do them immediately after I've read the book - my memory would be a bit hazy by now! However, I am hoping to make a video recommending historical fiction looking at LGBTQ+ characters this month for UK LGBT History month, so hopefully that'll be up fairly soon :)
If you ever answer questions in your videos, I have one for you, an expert of Victorian literature: "Do you think it is better, if possible, to avoid watching film adaptations (for example, of Dickens) until one has first read the book?"
Hmmm I'm not quite sure. In general now I try to read books before seeing adaptations, but as a teenager I tended to watch adaptations and then read the books, especially of Victorian literature - and because that's what got me into Victorian literature and really helped me fall in love with it as a teenager, I can never really think it's a bad thing to watch adaptations first.
Because you have similar reading tastes to me , O thought I'd suggest A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Broken Girls by Simone St James Mad , Bad and Dangerous to Know by Colm Toibin
i read and loved tipping the velvet this year too!!! im exctied to see what i think of fingersmith this year. i loved Nan so much & the socialist aspect of the novel too!! left wing victorian lesbians!!!! nice!!! hope you have a great reading year this year!
I watched a debate with John Mullan in which he said he did not have a chapter on pianos in his book, but that he should have. I have read Rebecca, very creepy.
Oh so many wonderful books. I don’t think I have read any on your list so lucky me I now have twenty books to which to look forward. Brilliant!
Thank you! :)
Splendid list of books! And more to add to my tbr.
Thanks :)
Your enthusiasm for books is so infectious ❣️
Thanks :)
You had a wonderful reading year! I am going to just reiterate what I say every time: all these are going on my TBR...I just love the way you talk about books.
Thanks Andreea :) Lots of great books here I think you'd enjoy!
I love watching your videos with a cup of tea in the mornings ❤️
Thanks so much!
I love your Favorites of the year videos and this one is no exception :)
I just bought the Kate Summerscale book and am very much looking forward to reading it, along with "What matters in Jane Austen". "Jane Austen at home" was one my favorite books of 2017, it is so good!
"Rebecca" is such a masterpiece, it's been a while since I read it but I remember loving every page!
I must read "Maurice" at some point, I've really liked the 3 EM Forster novels that I've read so far, especially "Howards End".
I'm glad you've got some good recommendations from this :) Maurice is just fantastic.
Thank you for being so passionate about Olive. Something rang a bell for me and I looked up the author and realised she wrote John Halifax, Gentleman which was one of my mother's favourite books. I read it in my teens forty years ago and had completely forgotten Mrs Craik as she was known then. All enthused now about reading Olive. I am so delighted that you loved Rebecca. Two of my favourite books of 2018 were by women writers of the same generation Last September by Elizabeth Bowen and The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend-Warner. Both authors to check out when you have time.
Thanks! Olive is amazing. John Halifax, Gentleman is on my list too and I'm really excited to read it, maybe this Victober. I'll definitely have to look up those two authors you mention.
I loved this video, great amount of books, Thankyou! I read Rebecca and loved it , I want to read my cousin Rachael this year. I also read two Kristin Hannah’s books, the nightingale and the Great Alone, both wonderful!
I would really recommend My Cousin Rachel :)
I loved watching this video! Your excitement is contagious.
Thank you :)
Yet another extremely solid video! Thank you. As always you have added to my TBR! The TBR is getting too long...
Thanks you :)
I added 3 new books to my TBR (all non fiction), was reminded about two books I want to read (Olive and Maurice) and cannot but agree that the watchmaker of Filigree street is a wonderful new all time favourite!
Thanks :) The Watchmaker is just amazing!
So many great picks! I read Tipping the Velvet this year and it has definitely made me want to pick up more Sarah Waters. I'm hoping to pick up The Miniaturist and Days without End this year as they sound fantastic.
Oh I think you'll really like The Miniaturist and Days without End!
Ahh Days Without End has been sitting on my bookshelves for far too long but it's just gone straight to the top of my reading list. It sounds wonderful. Also, yay for Rebecca. Such a good book! I've had sadly disappointing experiences with the Du Mauriers I've read since, but Rebecca still wins. And, of course, I'm so glad to see The Miniaturist on this list. You're right that the magical element gets far more focus than it should, but what a book! :)
I would highly recommend Days Without End. Ah, I love the Miniaturist so much - as you say, what a book!
I'm currently reading the Miniaturist and thoroughly enjoying it. Marked "olive" on my TBR list.
It's wonderful! And yes, highly recommend Olive!
Your videos are my absolute favourite Katie! My ‘want to read’ list grows so much when I watch them 😂
Thanks so much!
Sounds like in Olive you have an answer for any Victorian 'sleeper' question. You make me want to read it, so ... job well-done!
Olive was just fantastic. Highly recommend it!
My favorite book was Wives and Daughters! Love Gaskell. I was so interested in reading Olive that I checked on Abes.com and found paper copies there. Look forward to reading it this year.
Gaskell is just amazing. And yes, I highly recommend Olive :)
Oh goodness, so many fantastic recommendations, my TBR has exploded!(You had me at Hollywood on the Moon🌙 ) My favorite read of 2018 was Circe by Madeline Miller.
Radiance is amazing - enjoy! I really need to read Circe, I've heard so many great things.
Dual narratives for the win! This list was so good .
They are my favourites!
I love these videos. I enjoyed reading Chicken Chow Mein.
You're an amazing writer. :)
Thanks so much :D
If you like "pattern spotting" literary criticism, have you read MIchael Ward's "Planet Narnia"? (BTW, you probably know that there's a 2011 TV movie version of "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" and a TV documentary by Lucy Worsley to accompany her book on Jane Austin's homes.)
That sounds great - I'll have to look it up.
2018 was in many ways a year of Trollope for me. I read the Chronicles of Barsetshire (minus The Warden, which I'd already read) and the Palliser series (and this year I've already finished The Way We Live Now and The Vicar of Bullhampton, and am currently reading He Knew He Was Right). I think my favourite few books of 2018 were all Trollope ones: Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Phineas Redux and The Duke's Children. If forced to pick one, I'd probably go with Phineas Redux. Can You Forgive Her? would not be far behind those ones. I must thank you for helping to inspire me to read Trollope - it has brought me a great deal of pleasure, as I hope it will for you with your Trollope Project this year. I've come to the conclusion that the Palliser series may actually be even better than the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which is saying something, so you have plenty to look forward to!
I am also currently reading he knew he was right and i am not enjoyining it ,and it is my first trollope novel. i thought i would really like it. Maybe i should have started reading something else as my first trollope.
Trollope is just so great. Giorgi, I recommend Dr Wortle's School as a good place to start with Trollope - it's a bit shorter and has less characters, that can help too.
Daniel, sounds like you loved the Palliser series and Barsetshire Chronicles this year. I'm really enjoying the Pallisers so far and am really looking forward to reading them all this year.
I'm so glad And Then There Were None made it onto the favourites list! It was fab, wasn't it?
It really, really was!
Have you never read A Room with a View then?! I think you would love it. It was my favorite novel for years (before I read any Austen). It's a wonderful book, and the film, while good, does not do it justice at all. The novel is both funnier and darker than the film I think.
I haven't, though I have seen a film a long time ago. I'm really looking forward to reading it.
I’ve never watch around the world in 80 days but I loved the cartoon as a kid 😄 I might pick this up for nostalgia😁 I’ve only read paying guests but i loved the tv series of tipping the velvet☺️ ‘ You smell like a mermaid’ 🥰 I’ve heard it much more risqué than the tv version 😁Days without End😲😍 that book- it just builds up to so much drama I couldn’t cope towards the end😅 I loved how it wove themes of nature with what they were experiencing. Just need to say ‘ He didn’t love Rebecca’😂 I’ve never read any Patrick Gale heard could stuff and you are reassuring me🙌 I may have to pick up Mrs Gaskell and me 😲 I image this was right up your street I can see how this would get you😁 I saw the Miniaturist and liked it a lot and I’ve seen those doll houses in person they’re amazing. Maurice 🙃 I’ve still not read that but I’ve got the book and I’m often picked up for having never read it or seen the movie (I’m a bad gay) in planning to read Jayne Ayre this year I’ve not read any of the Bronte sisters but this one sounds particularly good. Olive sound ace as well regarding all the themes you mentioned especially being an artist☺️ the watch maker sound very cool added to my TBR. North and South made my top list but my favourite for the year was Let’s talk about Love by Claire Kann. I just loved it. This was a delight to watch 🙌☺️
I really must watch some of the Sarah Waters screen adaptations - I haven't seen any! And yes, Days Without End was just amazing. I think you'd like A Place Called Winter - it's so interesting. And also Maurice - Oly, it's so, so amazing, and you really must read it.
Books and Things sold! as long as you find the tv adaptation for tipping the velvet Nan is soo good Rachael Sterling is amazing as her. She captured being infatuated with someone in such a innocent and endearing way. It’s all played out in her face I loved it☺️
I've just bought Days Without End after your recommendation (Couldn't find The Watchmaker of Filigree Street in Argentina yet). I have a lot to read but I hope I'll finish it soon cause I'm so curious about this gay relationship set at that period of time. Is there a chance you'll make a separate review on it? I still remember your amazing video about LGBTQ+ themes in Victorian literature, very high quality content in this channel. Thanks for your support, it means A LOT to me and to so many others for sure! Peace and Love :D
Thanks very much :) I'm unlikely to do a separate video on Days Without End to be honest, as I usually just review books in my wrap ups, and if I do separate review videos I do them immediately after I've read the book - my memory would be a bit hazy by now! However, I am hoping to make a video recommending historical fiction looking at LGBTQ+ characters this month for UK LGBT History month, so hopefully that'll be up fairly soon :)
Has anyone read the Little Stranger by Sarah Waters?
I haven't yet, but it's on my list.
If you ever answer questions in your videos, I have one for you, an expert of Victorian literature: "Do you think it is better, if possible, to avoid watching film adaptations (for example, of Dickens) until one has first read the book?"
Hmmm I'm not quite sure. In general now I try to read books before seeing adaptations, but as a teenager I tended to watch adaptations and then read the books, especially of Victorian literature - and because that's what got me into Victorian literature and really helped me fall in love with it as a teenager, I can never really think it's a bad thing to watch adaptations first.
@@katiejlumsden I thank you for your response.
Because you have similar reading tastes to me , O thought I'd suggest
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Broken Girls by Simone St James
Mad , Bad and Dangerous to Know by Colm Toibin
Thanks very much - will add to my list :)
That settles it for my _Trollope Choice_ for #Victober: _Can You Forgive Her_
✊🌩️👍 !¡! Thx, Katie !¡! 👾💡🕵️♂️
I certainly recommend it!
off to read Olive
I hope you like it!
♥️
i read and loved tipping the velvet this year too!!! im exctied to see what i think of fingersmith this year. i loved Nan so much & the socialist aspect of the novel too!! left wing victorian lesbians!!!! nice!!! hope you have a great reading year this year!
I know, it was amazing! :)
I watched a debate with John Mullan in which he said he did not have a chapter on pianos in his book, but that he should have.
I have read Rebecca, very creepy.
Ha I would like to read a chapter on pianos from him!
Could u pls slow down ur speed haha
This is already digitally slowed down. Sorry, I can't help that I speak quickly - I try really hard.