Classic Book Recommendations for Spring! 🌷🪺
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- I'm back with some classic recommendations for Spring!
***
Last Year's Spring Video: • Classic Book Recommend...
***
Works/Authors Mentioned:
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice Video: • I Reread Pride and Pre...
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thomas Hardy
Robert Frost
Robert Frost Poetry Reading: • New England Road Trip ...
***
Support My Channel/Links:
Kofi: ko-fi.com/thor...
Instagram: thornfieldbooks
What classics are you planning on reading this spring? ⬇
... Quite a few ...
Thomas Hardy is one of my most beloved writers. His nature descriptions are truly incomparable! Thank you for highlighting him. How I would have loved to have known him!
I agree! He's one of my favorites.
Your passion for reading is infectious 😊
Thank you! 😊
Perfect timing !!! I'm half way through David Copperfield right now, and am loving it. I think Frankenstein is a wonderful recommendation... to remind us that nature is best left to what nature does best, bringing things back to life every year and not be the humans that force creation ! I'm not sure if it's in Canada only, but April is recognized as poetry month... fitting for spring indeed. Great to see you again !!!
Well said!
So happy to hear you're enjoying David Copperfield! And I love that way of looking at it. It makes so much sense. And yay for poetry month! I looked it up and April is also poetry month in the US, I just had never heard of it before, fun!
It’s wonderful to see you back and thanks for offering some super suggestions for springtime reading. David Copperfield is a superb book, but at the moment I’m reading The Old Curiosity Shop, which is great, too. Yes, Hardy and Frost are totally appropriate for this time of year and a video of Thomas Hardy’s poems would be interesting. Katie, of Book and Things, observed Hardy’s prose was nearly all written in the 19th century and his poetry in the 20th. I have no recommendations except Katie’s new book, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall-I’m almost finished with it, and it’s captivating, well written, and any other similar synonym you can name. Good to see you, Valerie!
I'm also reading The Secrets of Hartwood Hall and really enjoying it!
I love your seasonal classics recommendations. Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing are my favourites. Ophelia is very spring.
Frankenstein does definitely feel spring to me, too. Frankenstein is one of my favourites, I still haven't read Paradise Lost.
I always read Jane Austen in spring and it makes me happy. The Keira Knightley one is my preferred one.
Oooh, Thomas Hard poems video would be so good. New Hampshire turns a hundred this year (the one with The Road Not Taken). I always want to be under a tree reasing a poem, that would be my ideal state.
Thank you! I’ve seen a performance of Much Ado About Nothing and really enjoyed it but have yet to read it! I think Paradise Lost adds such an interesting layer to Frankenstein, definitely worth it if it’s already a favorite. And I didn’t know New Hampshire is turning 100! That makes me even more inclined to read some Robert Frost.
~Great to see Marquez here!
I really need to read more Marquez soon!
@@ThornfieldBooks Sounds Great!
_Hamlet_ I've read and seen performed countless times, and it keeps on giving. Always worth the time and effort!
I'm currently reading Hardy's _The Return of the Native._ (more of a fall/winter book, though)
Robert Frost, my favorite poem: _Nature's first green is gold / Her hardest hue to hold_
It definitely rewards revisiting! I want to read Return of the Native at some point, maybe this year. And that’s one of my favorites from Frost!
Nature poetry in spring certainly does the trick.I think listening to music that evokes similar feelings is equally rewarding.There was a wonderful songwriter who has that wistful poetic quality to his songs,and in fact references Browning,Keats and Wordsworth in his song Home Thoughts From Abroad.
Music definitely would be a similar experience!
I DID appreciate the unhinged recommendations haha. I would add to your list: All Creature Great and Small by James Herriot, the Anne of Green Gables books or really anything by LM Montgomery, I Capture the Castle, and East of Eden.
So glad you appreciated them haha. Thank you for the recommendations!
as soon as you said hamlet i knew you were gonna reference the ophelia painting LOL
New year of me appreciating art lol
@@ThornfieldBooks time for you to appreciate van gogh
I’m going to be in Amsterdam on a layover but too late for the museum to be open boo
Intriguing suggestions.
I'll have to give 'A Hundred Years of Solitude' a try this year; but I'm looking to the first day of reading in the sunshine with some P. G. Wodehouse to hand; 'Uncle Fred in the Springtime' probably.
(It's the time of year a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of pig-napping.)
Sounds great! Happy reading!
As soon as you said Hamlet, I immediately thought of Ophelia and flowers so I think you’re right on there.
Glad it made sense! It’s such a beautiful painting
I've been wanting to read another bildungsroman ever since I fell in love with jane eyre so i'm bumping david copperfield up on my tbr!💓
It’s one of my favorites! Such a good one 😊
I loved Hamlet! I just finished Othello and I loved that one as well; I have to do a presentation about it so I'm talking about Desdemona's handkerchief as a feminist symbol and its really cool getting to study the text so closely.
Othello is another good one! There’s so much to study when it comes to Desdemona’s handkerchief, what a great symbol to be discussing 😊
❤❤❤