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So happy to see you rated Les Miserables by Victor Hugo in your top five. It is a masterpiece! Also I really enjoyed Agnes Grey…….very genuine piece of literature. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on these books.

You should read Daniel Deronda if you are looking for more action in Eliot

You should read "The Woman in White and "Great Expectations"

Please read DHLawrence’s review of Thomas Hardy, “Containing Six Novels and the Real Tragedy.

My favorite Dickens might be Our Mutual Friend. Here's the Wikipedia blurb: Our Mutual Friend, written in 1864-1865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. This is great on audiobook and also has a great PBS series. Another of my favorites which probably doesn't classify as Victorian because it was earlier is Clarissa by Samuel Rechardson. This is a book which influenced many Victorian writers. It's an epistolary novel--all told via letters. It's quite long and there is an amazing audiobook of it which is around 100 hours long. Make sure you choose the unabridged version. These are both long books for those of us who like to live in the fictional world for extended periods. And that is the beauty of Victorian novels. They last and last...

So far Jane eyre is my favorite, because I LOVE the banter between the 2 main characters. I also really liked how they fell in love with other more because of their personality's and less because of physical attraction, which is rare in literature, and to a certain in real life to.

Even quarterly videos would be perfectly fine. An interesting video (later) would be “Reading ideas for when you’re in a slump.”

Life has its ebbs and flows. Sometimes our heads are just not in a good space for reading. We need to give ourselves permission to just live life sometimes. Short stories, audiobooks, rereads, lighter reads… When my brain needs to coast, my go to is Agatha Christie.

Yeah, I’m not a fan of WH. It’s so interesting hearing which books other people love. My list overlaps yours in several places. Other favs include: Our Mutual Friend, Little Dorrit, Jane Eyre, and Woman in White

Everyone seems to hate their first time reading Wuthering heights and here i am the one who fell in love whit the book from the very first time 😂 it was like a love at first sight, i feel so weird while almost every person i know thinks is not worth reading or have to re read it 2 or 3 times more to like it.

Ahh ! Victorian literature is pure love.. Btw my favourite is "David Copperfield" can't love any other novel more than this one.

I can recommend "Hadji Murad" by Leo Tolstoy if you haven’t had the chance. A great read.

Completely understand how reading sometimes goes up and down Tori. I remember several decades ago having a bad break up and reading five books the whole year but reading wasn’t calling me and that’s ok. If I feel slumpy I just enjoy the other things in my life knowing books will eventually come back into my life. I’m sure you’ll be all fired up for Victober!

Hope you’re doing all right and never worry about not posting as much - sometimes that’s just how things are 💜

We'll still be here. ❤ I call once-every-two-weeks "fortnightly," but that might be a Britishism.

I hear ya girl! I keep thinking I'm in a slump then suddenly i find a book i can't put down. But that lingering slumpiness is in the background. You take as much time as you need!

it still saddens me that jennifer left us too soon, her channel was the first book tube channel that i subscribed to. I remember she said she loved reading about history because of ancient egypt so I will be reading Egyptian mythologies tales translated from the paypries by flinders petrie and Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic by by Sophus Helle since it is oldest epic in history which started this tradition and I remember how she loved epic poetry. R.I.P jennifer.

still cant believe jennifer is gone. hope things get better for you and you start feeling better soon 💙

Reading slumps can be so discouraging when reading is your main hobby. Surrendering to it can be so powerful and freeing though! I have been reading much less than normal and loving not reading because I feel obligated but because I want to. I hope you treat yourself to lovely things in this time and feel refreshed!

Be kind to yourself! 💛

I slowed my reading way down this year, because I read too much last year and it burnt me out. I think leisurely reading like you are doing is a good idea, I have been doing this same. I reduced my goal to half of what I read last year, and am just reading what I want.

Gosh i *so* relate (i haven't even used GR since last Victober) 🙅‍♀ & im also in the midst of learning / new interests that is taking my reading time. I feel like letting go of the reins is a super healthy thing (im doing the same). Lovely to see your face & whenever u pop up is just a blessing 🙂 "We're so dramatic here on bt" 😆 i find myself being like that- they're only books! lol (i stll recommend Possession tho) 🧐💕☺

Take the time you need, Tori. Please keep us posted when you feel you can. We'll be cheering for you!🧡

I've always enjoyed your channel and understand that you need a break. After all, reading should be fun--not a chore.

I read somewhere, and this may well be true, that Jane Eyre has been made into a movie or TV mini-series more than any other classic novel.

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights certainly the most well-known. But Tenant of Wildfell Hall tends to also rank highly in these lists by readers who have read all the Brontes' novels. All 3 sisters share in the glory. And remember, unlike sports won-loss records, there is no authoritative objective criteria for ranking works of art.

Excellent mash-up of several of my favourite things 😅

Glad you had a good readathon 😊

I really enjoyed reading Wilkie Collins‘ novels The Woman in White and Moonstone. But on the other hand I had heard so much praise of Middlemarch, but I was not able to finish it, I just lost interest somewhere along the way.

I’m just SO over TS. It’s really to the point of over-saturation of mediocre music. But I still love your channel 😅

So fun 😄apart from 4 of these (im one of those who actually enjoyed Becky Sharpes character in VFair😅) i pretty much want to read them all your description of Wuthering Heights 😆👍 You've also reminded me id really like to read The Marble Faun (N. Hawthorne) & My Cousin Rachel.. i think i need to make an organized list lol. 🤓😊

Wow you had a great reading month 🤗 Great wrap up on MATJ (xtra thoughts on voxer) & i cant wait to hear your thoughts on When Christ.. i have the trilogy & yep im intimidated but exicted for it! 💙🧐😊

So glad you had such a good reading month!

I was wanting you to choose The Glass Hotel! I love that book but I also like intrigue and the "fly on the wall" feeling when people are being dishonest. Glad you had a great reading month!

I hadn’t even thought of myth retellings but that is a great shout! Joan has been on my TBR for a while - sounds amazing 🤩

Thanks for the reviews

The “Woodlanders” is the only one I haven’t read. Enjoyed the rest on the list.

Does Wuthering Heights count? For some reason that one stuck with me my whole life, though. Lord of the Flies is a great book.

I have a gorgeous Everymans Library bind up of the Pullman trilogy, The Miniaturist, The Secret History, The Historian & Live Ship Traders trilogy still tbr/ on shelves. keep pulling them out of my tbr jar then thinking.. 'but im not in the mood' 😆🙅‍♀ Possession is an all time favourite of mine (i sent Jenny a copy) 💘❤‍🩹 I have sooo many classics too & thy're probably my favourites also 🧐💕🙂

Oh my gosh i have that Penman series (& TSISpleandour) & i so wanted to get to one of them this year but alas im not sure im in the mood now. I finished MATJ last night & it is definitely affecting my Misery May choices (😪)im not sure if ill partake (i had a tbr Hardy etc planned) but y'know.. mental health etc 🙅‍♀ Ive always wanted to read Joan & / or Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross. Look fwd to catching up (just left u a voxer) 👍🙂

Don't get too sad with your Misery May TBR! If you don't get around to "Joan", maybe a group read in the summer?🧡

Thanks so much for these books/suggestions.. READ POSSESSION !. IT IS A wonderful endeavor. I've read it a few times. I couldn't put it down. I think Youl really enjoy it as well. Best, Rob in NYC

Nice list. If you’ve never read Rebecca (does that fall into Victorian?) check it out.

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if my books look new I know that I've not read them. and if i have not read them by now, they'll never be read again, therefore altered book journals it is. all my books that i read have and/or will have severe signs that they're owned and used. anything less is not acceptable to me. the worse the book the more I've read it. f pretty books. they're a waste.

You're right abt the Mandell books...i found more connections between The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility than Station Eleven and Sea.

i used to use netgalley for ebook arcs but then its so much pressure to actually read it fast and write meaningful thoughts so eventually i just stopped.

I also prefer a physical book, but I love that all read however they enjoy it

I'm with you, it's crazy that these things are controversies or even debated at all. 🙄 "Just enjoy reading, it's fine" indeed! Let people enjoy things!