Hello Lucy. Nice podcast tonight. I am currently reading Notes from a dead house by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is my favorite Russian novelist. One day I think I will have all of his stories someday. I have seen books on his letter writings and would highly enjoy that as well. Looking forward to your next review. You articulate very well on camera. Thank you ever so much from me and all your viewers.
Dodie Smith - smashing turn of phrase; a very easy writer to like. I approve of The Five without having any particular inclination to read it, because I absolutely loath the very idea of the "true crime" genre. Sounds like a good antidote. Anyway, glad to see you Lucy, because I read Emma. :-) No, not chivvying, just making conversation - and you deserve a "thank you" for bumping it up to the top of my re-read list. Also, I finished Vanity Fair the other night, so it looks like the reading mojo is well and truly working again.
The Five really made me think about "true crime" and the way it is consumed - I thought it was all very tastefully done. And yes, I do need chivvying along to read Emma - I appreciate your reminder, and am glad to hear you read it! As well as Vanity Fair - you are on a roll!
@@lucythereader Ah, you'll read Emma when you're in the mood, and enjoy it immensely no doubt. Jane Austen's world is one of my happy places, so I appreciate you sending me off there for a while. As for the Thackeray ... well, that was quite something. Have you read it, Lucy - I forget?
Among other books, I've read Emma and Persuasion by Jane Austen and I loved both. It was actually because of you that I fell in love with Jane Austen, because I watched one of your older videos where you mentioned you watched the new movie adaptation of Emma twice in short time. Then I have seen Emma. three times in two days and I had to get my hands on the book as well. Now I own the whole Vintage edition and I'm looking forward to read more. And currently I'm working my way through Middlemarch.
I love seeing what you’re reading! I feel like I’ve read quite a few classics, but you often recommend books I’ve never heard of! I just recently re-read Sense and Sensibility and I’m currently reading Tom Sawyer. Next month I’m planning to read Huckleberry Finn and The Idiot (Dostoyevsky).
I also started 2021 with "Look Back with Love"! And agreed, it was a fantastic start to the reading year. I would say it's one of the best memoirs I've ever read. My library had to order it interlibrary loan from a university library, where they had the original edition from 1974. I especially remember the family's first extended motorcar ride--it was hilarious! I ended January with a re-read of "I Capture the Castle", so it was a great month of reading.
The Five is an amazing and eye opening history book. I will definitely have to read Vera. I read 2 classics this year. I read Pamela by Samuel Richardson and The Vampyre by John William Polidori. I read both for Georgianuary.
I have got so many books from your channel and loved so many. I read the 5 women and I loved it it was so interesting. I am going to have to pick up all the others and add them to my wishlist
Last year I happened to fall in love with I Capture the Castle (it was one of the set texts for an English language exam) and I got myself a copy of Look Back with Love (the same as yours). So excited to read it.
Hello Lucy! So lovely to see your smiling face. :) You're right about it being difficult to find a copy of "Look Back with Love", especially in the US, but I'm still looking. "Business As Usual" sounds so good and I'm going to look for it after I finish typing this note to you. "Vera" is sitting on my book shelf and I will have to pick it up soon as your description sounded ever so intriguing! I'm a big fan of Daphne du Maurier and especially love her "Rebecca". Btw, Elizabeth von Arnim's "Enchanted April" is a jewel ... best to be read in the spring time. ;) This year so far I read, for the first time, Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" and it blew me away! What a difference from "Agnes Grey" which I also loved. So much suffering in Wildfell Hall, though; I was very happy with the ending. I am now reading Dostoyevsky's "The House of the Dead". After this, I will probably pick up "Villette" for a second reading. Thanks for your video! I so enjoyed it!!! ~Debbie in Rochester, NY
Hello Miss Lucy. Hope you are doing very well. You are a well-read person. How old are you and how many books you've read so far? Where were you grown up and where do you live now? I started listening to your videos because of your good British accent. I would like to ask you a favour, do you have time to attend a ZOOM meeting where we can discuss books and classics. You are outstanding and we can learn from you.
Fantastic books selection I read Jane Eyre in January and I was my first 19th century classic, I had heard good critics about it and when I started seemed like the book that I've always been craving to read.I can say I enjoyed everything, took me the whole month to read but it worth it. I'm looking forward to read similar books. Thanks for posting your reads and good luck with what's coming.
Glad your 2021 reading has been great! 👍🏻Mine as well thankfully so far! Last month I read Mrs.Dalloway which was a very unique and enjoyable experience as my first Woolf read, currently Reading my first Gaskell “North & South” and loving it! Hopefully the rest of the year goes along the same lines fingers crossed 🤞🏼
I just finished The Radium Girls, which I think is a bit similar to The Five. It tells the stories of the women who painted luminous dials and watches with radium paint from the 1910s to the 1930s. Not a serial killer, just a negligent and immoral corporation and an industrial poison, but a similar point of view, I believe.
So far I’ve only read pride and prejudice when it comes to classics, tales of two cities was too hard to get through. Hoping to read the wind and the willows soon and some Agatha Christie!
Lucy, I have been writing my historical fiction novel and I have truly been taking my time with it as I experiment with new scenes. I need to read Look Back With Love by Dodie Smith to understand what Edwardian society was like and it will also be research for the book I am writing. Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim seems much too intense for me at this age and I would like to first read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, which I have already read parts of. I am presently positioned on a sofa beside the windows, watching the roads blanketed with snow as I write this comment. I think by writing and learn by reading. Oh dear, this keyboard cannot keep up with my thoughts. I am currently reading a few books and there is no pressure to finish them anytime soon. I love you
Your thoughts on Vera are so interesting! I just read Rebecca and an even darker version of that story sounds fascinating.
I read Business As Usual after seeing it on your instagram and I loved it so much! Thank you for the recommendation
I read Pride and Prejudice for the first time and love it. Then I read The age of innocence which was good but didn't love it.
Hello Lucy. Nice podcast tonight. I am currently reading Notes from a dead house by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is my favorite Russian novelist. One day I think I will have all of his stories someday. I have seen books on his letter writings and would highly enjoy that as well. Looking forward to your next review. You articulate very well on camera. Thank you ever so much from me and all your viewers.
"I can't wait to find out what happens for the rest of the 20th century" is the full Lucy Powrie mood
Why am I like this
Dodie Smith - smashing turn of phrase; a very easy writer to like. I approve of The Five without having any particular inclination to read it, because I absolutely loath the very idea of the "true crime" genre. Sounds like a good antidote.
Anyway, glad to see you Lucy, because I read Emma. :-) No, not chivvying, just making conversation - and you deserve a "thank you" for bumping it up to the top of my re-read list. Also, I finished Vanity Fair the other night, so it looks like the reading mojo is well and truly working again.
The Five really made me think about "true crime" and the way it is consumed - I thought it was all very tastefully done.
And yes, I do need chivvying along to read Emma - I appreciate your reminder, and am glad to hear you read it! As well as Vanity Fair - you are on a roll!
@@lucythereader Ah, you'll read Emma when you're in the mood, and enjoy it immensely no doubt. Jane Austen's world is one of my happy places, so I appreciate you sending me off there for a while. As for the Thackeray ... well, that was quite something. Have you read it, Lucy - I forget?
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I read Frankenstein for the first time this year, and it’s really pushing me to read more classics! I’m reading The Great Gatsby right now too :)
I haven't found "look back with love" anywhere!! so sad, was really interested in reading it!
Hello readers!!
How about inviting you for a ZOOM meeting weekly to discuss novels.
Among other books, I've read Emma and Persuasion by Jane Austen and I loved both. It was actually because of you that I fell in love with Jane Austen, because I watched one of your older videos where you mentioned you watched the new movie adaptation of Emma twice in short time. Then I have seen Emma. three times in two days and I had to get my hands on the book as well. Now I own the whole Vintage edition and I'm looking forward to read more. And currently I'm working my way through Middlemarch.
I read The Picture of Dorian Gray and Persuasion in January and The Railway Children in February. Currently reading Anne Of Avonlea.
Vera was meant to be a dark comedy
I love seeing what you’re reading! I feel like I’ve read quite a few classics, but you often recommend books I’ve never heard of! I just recently re-read Sense and Sensibility and I’m currently reading Tom Sawyer. Next month I’m planning to read Huckleberry Finn and The Idiot (Dostoyevsky).
I also started 2021 with "Look Back with Love"! And agreed, it was a fantastic start to the reading year. I would say it's one of the best memoirs I've ever read. My library had to order it interlibrary loan from a university library, where they had the original edition from 1974. I especially remember the family's first extended motorcar ride--it was hilarious! I ended January with a re-read of "I Capture the Castle", so it was a great month of reading.
The Five is an amazing and eye opening history book. I will definitely have to read Vera.
I read 2 classics this year. I read Pamela by Samuel Richardson and The Vampyre by John William Polidori. I read both for Georgianuary.
I have got so many books from your channel and loved so many. I read the 5 women and I loved it it was so interesting.
I am going to have to pick up all the others and add them to my wishlist
What are you reading at the moment?
I read A Room With a View by E.M. Forster and I completely loved it. I would like to read more of his books this year :)
That’s my next read for March, so excited to read it!
Last year I happened to fall in love with I Capture the Castle (it was one of the set texts for an English language exam) and I got myself a copy of Look Back with Love (the same as yours). So excited to read it.
Hello Lucy! So lovely to see your smiling face. :) You're right about it being difficult to find a copy of "Look Back with Love", especially in the US, but I'm still looking. "Business As Usual" sounds so good and I'm going to look for it after I finish typing this note to you. "Vera" is sitting on my book shelf and I will have to pick it up soon as your description sounded ever so intriguing! I'm a big fan of Daphne du Maurier and especially love her "Rebecca". Btw, Elizabeth von Arnim's "Enchanted April" is a jewel ... best to be read in the spring time. ;) This year so far I read, for the first time, Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" and it blew me away! What a difference from "Agnes Grey" which I also loved. So much suffering in Wildfell Hall, though; I was very happy with the ending. I am now reading Dostoyevsky's "The House of the Dead". After this, I will probably pick up "Villette" for a second reading. Thanks for your video! I so enjoyed it!!! ~Debbie in Rochester, NY
Hello Miss Lucy.
Hope you are doing very well.
You are a well-read person. How old are you and how many books you've read so far?
Where were you grown up and where do you live now?
I started listening to your videos because of your good British accent.
I would like to ask you a favour, do you have time to attend a ZOOM meeting where we can discuss books and classics. You are outstanding and we can learn from you.
Fantastic books selection
I read Jane Eyre in January and I was my first 19th century classic, I had heard good critics about it and when I started seemed like the book that I've always been craving to read.I can say I enjoyed everything, took me the whole month to read but it worth it. I'm looking forward to read similar books.
Thanks for posting your reads and good luck with what's coming.
Glad your 2021 reading has been great! 👍🏻Mine as well thankfully so far! Last month I read Mrs.Dalloway which was a very unique and enjoyable experience as my first Woolf read, currently Reading my first Gaskell “North & South” and loving it! Hopefully the rest of the year goes along the same lines fingers crossed 🤞🏼
Miss Lucy!
How can I read fast?
What is your favourite reading technique?
Love your podcast very uplifting!
I read Ethan Frome and Summer by Edith Wharton this month! 💕❤️
Me too! I LOVED IT!
Ethan Frome - an intense read. I think about it often, a terrific character read, so well written. Wharton is a great writer.
You've read such great books so far, Lucy!!😍 I've noted them all down, especially the first 2! Thanks for the recommendations💜😇
I just finished The Radium Girls, which I think is a bit similar to The Five. It tells the stories of the women who painted luminous dials and watches with radium paint from the 1910s to the 1930s. Not a serial killer, just a negligent and immoral corporation and an industrial poison, but a similar point of view, I believe.
I have this to read and it sounds like just my kind of book. Did you enjoy it (if that's the right word!)?
Silence is Golden.
I just started reading ‘The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady’ by Edith Holden. It’s absolutely stunning - I really feel you would enjoy it, too.
Yes, I LOVE The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady!
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my elder brother who introduced me with you channel passed away few month ago...pray for him...😥
I’m so sorry. I will pray for you, I understand loss and know that the pain never goes away but it does get easier to cope with.
Two novels I have read so far this month and LOVED are Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo and A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan
Such a good video, Lucy. Very glad you're having such an unexpectedly great reading year! : )
So far I’ve only read pride and prejudice when it comes to classics, tales of two cities was too hard to get through. Hoping to read the wind and the willows soon and some Agatha Christie!
I loved THE FIVE so, so much too! Can't wait to see what HR comes out with next.
have u seen bridgerton yet? i'd love to hear your thoughts on it! :))
You had such a fantastic reading month in January! Fingers crossed for a great rest of 2021!
Hope your reading month was great too!
@@lucythereader Mine was just average, but I've had a wonderful February so far so things are on the up! Thanks :)
Lucy, I have been writing my historical fiction novel and I have truly been taking my time with it as I experiment with new scenes. I need to read Look Back With Love by Dodie Smith to understand what Edwardian society was like and it will also be research for the book I am writing. Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim seems much too intense for me at this age and I would like to first read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, which I have already read parts of. I am presently positioned on a sofa beside the windows, watching the roads blanketed with snow as I write this comment. I think by writing and learn by reading. Oh dear, this keyboard cannot keep up with my thoughts. I am currently reading a few books and there is no pressure to finish them anytime soon. I love you
I hope you're keeping warm and cosy in the snow! ❄️
@@lucythereader
Yes, it has been warm and comfortable at home. Thank you so much. I hope you are well.
Amazing recs
Thanks!