Very excited to see the upcoming 24 hour read a thon video. Sound strategy to read shorter works. 1) Baldwin 2) Keegan 3). Galatea. I recommend Old Yeller but not for this video. Looking at your Goodreads to be read, please consider Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell and Time Machine by H.g. Wells (good change of pace from your other selections).
I'm curious about the purpose of a 24-hour read-a-thon. What's the purpose of doing one with another person if you read different books? Do you sit and silently read your own picks the whole time?
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1) If Beale St Could Talk; 2) So Late in the Day; 3) Galletea; 4) Into the War; 5) Circles of Hell; 6) Come Rain or Come Shine;, 7) Old Yeller; 8) Ghost Ways
Ouch... Old Yeller... I know that it kinda makes me a horrible person, but I want to see your reaction to that book... even though I already KNOW what your reaction to that book will be. I just want to see a fellow person sad/happy at the same parts that I was sad/happy at too! LOL... I also have to say that Dante scares me. lol... kind of like how "War and Peace" scares me.... very intimidating in my mind. I'm literally afraid of reading Dante. Sooooooo .... I'm low key hoping that you will read it and then tell me that its "okay" for me to read it. LOL
Galate is really interesting; it is the original Greek myth of Pygmalion but from the statue's point of view. Have you read EM Forster's The Machine Stops? It is really excellent but very different for him, it is science fiction.
❤📚❤️ 1. Galatea 2. So Late in the Day 3. Old Yeller (a classic!) Also, I hope you can read Sense and Sensibility soon! A favorite re-read for me, and the movie is one I own. Love it!
I read Galatea recently , it was great ! Totally recommend ❤ i think if Beale street could talk would be a nice one to add- honour of black history month being February, I haven’t got italo Calvino into the war but I know you’ve said you like stories set during war times so in honour of your Italian heritage I’d probably pick that one too or the short Dante . I think it was me who said about so late in the day being one short story Caroline ! And I must apologise because over here in Ireland , the book doesn’t come with the addition of the two other short stories along side it (maybe Claire was trying to butter up her American readers 😂 ) i feel at a little bit of a loss now Ok so another recommendation I have and I don’t know whether you’ve read it or not but I think you’d absolutely love the audio book of lessons in chemistry (it too has a super smart dog in it ) , I know it was completely hyped but I think it deserves its hype. ❤ all the best x
hey Carolyn 🫶🏻✨ I loved the video and would like to share that I find it very curious that so many people around the world consider that they have a nationality of a country where they were not born 🤭 I am portuguese, and in Portugal we do have the double nationality concept, however what will automatically determine your nationality is the country where you were born. my boyfriend, on the other hand, is german, and in Germany lots of people say they are, let’s say Italian, while they were actually born in Germany, only they are Italian descendant.
You should definetly read Galatea, last year I read Methamorphosis and later Galatea and, for this particular story, I liked Madeline Miller's version more than the originakl! Than put your Dante into the list, since you wan to so bad to read it and then James Baldwin
I was going to suggest Calvino's Invisible Cities, but I see someone beat me to it! Definitely the Dante and Galatea to round out a Mediterranean theme.
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF ALL TIME 🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊please please please pick it up i absolutely promise you will not regret it!!!! besides that i think the keegan would be a great choice! haven’t read it myself yet but i’ve heard nothing but amazing things :)
Great options! I'd love to hear your thoughts on those. 1. Dante 2. Calvino 3. Baldwin 4. Ghostways 5. Galatea 6. Ichiguro 7. So late in the day 8. Old yeller
They all sound awesome! My top 3 (that is books I'd like to hear you talk about) would be the James Baldwin one, Galatea and Sense and Sensibility. Happy reading! 😊
What a lovely mug 🥰 My ranking is: 1. A few of the little black classics, I think finishing a few short stories would help keep up with the pace 2. Sense and sensibility 😁 3. Italo Calvino 4. James Baldwin 5. The rest of them (not really my taste). Enjoy the readathon!
For so late in the day- there were 2 editions published- the first edition only had one story in it and then the second edition had 3 😂 I ran into it when I first purchased it as well Also- sense and sensibility is available as an audio book and it’s narrated by Rosamund Pike (who played Jane in the Pride and Prejudice in 2005) so that would be my vote! Dante is awesome- highly recommend!
1. If Beale Street Could Talk 2. Galatea 3. Into the War / Italo Calvino 4. Ghostways 5. So Late in the Day 6. Dante’s Circles of Hell 7. Come Rain or Come Shine 8. Old Yeller
From one Italian-American to another, I'm so happy to hear that one of my favorite booktubers is also Italian! Also, I read Dante's Inferno and I thought it was excellent! I think you would really enjoy it! ❤
I recommend Galatea, Circles of hell, and into the war. I’ve read them all and they’re good. Especially Dante’s works! I’ve read a couple novels you mentioned like Old Yeller, and If Beale Street Could Talk. I dislike this Baldwin novel from a personal and literary point of view. It’s overrated imo.
Happy reading! Dante's Divine Comedy long-time favorite of mine. There's a course on the Internet, a visiting Italian Professor at Yale going through the thee parts of the comedy (inferno, purgatorio, Paradise), and it does work better when you understand it as a love poem. Otherwise there is a tendency to focus on the horrors of hell, which are eye-popping but less meaningful without ultimate context. Enjoy!
I love the idea, here’s my top list! 1. If beale street could talk 2. Dante’s circles of hell 3. Into the war 4. So late in the day 5. Old yeller 6. Ghost ways 7. Galatea
If Beal street could talk is just a masterpiece. I’m so excited to know your opinion about it. 🌸 (he’s a 10 but he doesn’t want to read all day long with me that’s an easy 0 😂)
If you decide to read more of Dante I’d definitely recommend trying an edition with both the English and the original Italian! Even if you can’t understand much of the Italian yet you can get a sense of how the original sounds out loud, which is so much of the beauty of it. Also, get an edition with an introduction and plenty of notes, because the divine comedy is so complex you need all that context to keep up with it! Hope you enjoy it ✨
Great choices! I haven’t read any of these, but I’ve read from some of these authors before. You can’t go wrong with Madeline Miller or James Baldwin. My picks: 1. Galatea 2. If Beale Street Could Talk 3. So Late in the Day
The little black Dante!❤ Can you do it in bilingual? Once I heard someone read Dante’s Divine Comedy in Italian and it was so euphonious! Italian language is so rhythmical and romantic.❤
Looks like a fun time! I’m currently reading two cantos a week from the entire The Divine Comedy and because there’s 100 cantos, I’ll finish at the end of December! It’s a perfect year long project if you want to read Dante. 1. Dante 2. So late in the day 3. Calvino 4. Galatea 5. Baldwin 6. Ghostways 7. Ichiguro 8. Old yeller
Wow! 24 hours reading would be great! I'm currently jobless.. I was going to a nearby library to spend my time... but still i wanted to do something different.. your idea of readathon of different writings is something which would interest me 😁
Hi! I would love to hear about Galatea and James Baldwin's book. I would not read Old Yeller, fearing it could be sad and I would cry. A lot. Have a great readathon with your boyfriend! Happy reading! ❤📚
Marcus Aurelius meditations could be an option. If i were an Italian i feel it to be a must read. Not fiction but cool as heck to read the thoughts of one of the great emperors. A stoic philosopher.
I love Austen. I'm planning on making my way through all of her work. I've read 3 of her novels, but not Sense & Sensibility yet. I saw the movie as well and enjoyed it.
My vote goes to Keegan and Baldwin. Your edition of So Late in the Day is from the US where they published it with 2 of her older short stories. In the UK, So Late in the Day was published as a stand alone novella. Look forward to the readathon vlog!
Hi Carolyn. Thank you so much for reigniting my love of reading and to not be intimidated by The Classics anymore! I’m currently reading Jane Eyre and Anna Karenina is waiting in the wings! I also love how you embrace books from your childhood and teen years. One book that is a favorite of my teens in The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene. Every few years I love picking it up again. Thanks again
I loved Galatea, so impactful for such a short story, I kept thinking about it for days after reading it. Sense and Sensibility is amazing, you'll love it when you get round to it, I loved the movie too. Haven't read the others but would love to hear your thoughts on the Dante and Calvino
I know you already have a bunch of ideas 😅 but you should look at reading book 2 of the earthsea series! it's fairly short and, i think, a lot more engaging than book 1! ❤
Into the war is 3 short stories, super easy to read and very interesting as a depiction of not understanding exactly what a war mean/ what the future holds up. I feel like if you gonna read dante, read the whole thing, not an excerpt?? lol
If I had to pick, I'd say Galatea, Dante's Circles of Hell, Old Yeller, and Into the War are the ones I would prioritize :) So excited for your 24hr Readathon video!
Very excited to see the upcoming 24 hour read a thon video. Sound strategy to read shorter works. 1) Baldwin 2) Keegan 3). Galatea. I recommend Old Yeller but not for this video. Looking at your Goodreads to be read, please consider Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell and Time Machine by H.g. Wells (good change of pace from your other selections).
1. Old Yeller
2. Galatea
3. Ghostways.
Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon is just so dreamy. I've always been in love with him 😊🤣
He is my favorite movie Austen man. He deserved better.
1. Italo Calvino
2. Claire Keegan
3. Old Yeller
4. Galatea
Happy Reading!😊
I vote for the James Baldwin. I'm reading Giovanni's Room now and this short novel is beautifully written.
That mug is so cute 🥰 As for the readathon, reading multiple smaller books sounds like a good plan. Have so much fun reading!
They all sound interesting~!
1. Galatea
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
3. Ghostways
I'm curious about the purpose of a 24-hour read-a-thon. What's the purpose of doing one with another person if you read different books? Do you sit and silently read your own picks the whole time?
Sense and sensibility vlog🥹?
Wait wait wait...your bf watched Jane Austen, loved it, and wants to watch it again with you??? 😲 Wow, I like him already!
Me too 😊
1. Claire Keegan
2. Dante
3. Italo Calvino
4. Ichiguro
5. James Baldwin
6. Old Yeller (so sad)
7. Ghostways
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1) If Beale St Could Talk; 2) So Late in the Day; 3) Galletea; 4) Into the War; 5) Circles of Hell; 6) Come Rain or Come Shine;, 7) Old Yeller; 8) Ghost Ways
Ranked
0. finish The Winners
1. Circles of Hell
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
3. Galatea
4. So Late in the Day
5. Come Rain or Come Shine
8.Galatea
2.So late in the day
1.Circles of hell
6.If bill street could talk
7.Old yeller
4.Ghostways
3.Into the war
5.Come rain or come shine
I’m quite late but whatever I’ll watch the video anyway, and oh my the mug is amazing! 1.Circles in hell 2. The first short story 3. James Baldwin*
Miller, Keegan, Old Yeller. Please let us know what your boyfriend picks. Lucky you, to have a boyfriend as infested in literature as you!
Ouch... Old Yeller... I know that it kinda makes me a horrible person, but I want to see your reaction to that book... even though I already KNOW what your reaction to that book will be. I just want to see a fellow person sad/happy at the same parts that I was sad/happy at too! LOL... I also have to say that Dante scares me. lol... kind of like how "War and Peace" scares me.... very intimidating in my mind. I'm literally afraid of reading Dante. Sooooooo .... I'm low key hoping that you will read it and then tell me that its "okay" for me to read it. LOL
Galate is really interesting; it is the original Greek myth of Pygmalion but from the statue's point of view. Have you read EM Forster's The Machine Stops? It is really excellent but very different for him, it is science fiction.
1) Galatea
2) If Beale Street Could Talk
3) Circles of Hell
🙂 enjoy your 24 hour readathon!
A good introduction to Spanish literature for you would be Pedro Paramo. A book that changed Spanish.
❤📚❤️
1. Galatea
2. So Late in the Day
3. Old Yeller (a classic!)
Also, I hope you can read Sense and Sensibility soon! A favorite re-read for me, and the movie is one I own. Love it!
Galatea was my last read of 2023; Highly recommend and would love to hear your thoughts!
Ghostways
Galatea
Circles of Hell
Into the War
So Late in the Day
If you read Old Yeller better have a box of tissues handy!
1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Circles of Hell
3. Come Rain or Come Shine
Woman, just read "Sense and Sensibility" for 24 hours straight. It doesn't get better than that. 😂
I read Galatea recently , it was great ! Totally recommend ❤ i think if Beale street could talk would be a nice one to add- honour of black history month being February, I haven’t got italo Calvino into the war but I know you’ve said you like stories set during war times so in honour of your Italian heritage I’d probably pick that one too or the short Dante .
I think it was me who said about so late in the day being one short story Caroline ! And I must apologise because over here in Ireland , the book doesn’t come with the addition of the two other short stories along side it (maybe Claire was trying to butter up her American readers 😂 ) i feel at a little bit of a loss now
Ok so another recommendation I have and I don’t know whether you’ve read it or not but I think you’d absolutely love the audio book of lessons in chemistry (it too has a super smart dog in it ) , I know it was completely hyped but I think it deserves its hype. ❤ all the best x
hey Carolyn 🫶🏻✨ I loved the video and would like to share that I find it very curious that so many people around the world consider that they have a nationality of a country where they were not born 🤭 I am portuguese, and in Portugal we do have the double nationality concept, however what will automatically determine your nationality is the country where you were born. my boyfriend, on the other hand, is german, and in Germany lots of people say they are, let’s say Italian, while they were actually born in Germany, only they are Italian descendant.
I vote for 1. Galatea, 2. If Beale Street Could Talk and 3. Dante's Circles of Hell.
You should definetly read Galatea, last year I read Methamorphosis and later Galatea and, for this particular story, I liked Madeline Miller's version more than the originakl! Than put your Dante into the list, since you wan to so bad to read it and then James Baldwin
1. Old yeller
2. Gallatea
3. Calvino
My favorite Sense and Sensability movie adaptation is the BBC version.
I was going to suggest Calvino's Invisible Cities, but I see someone beat me to it! Definitely the Dante and Galatea to round out a Mediterranean theme.
Yes S&S. After this 24hr readathon!! I'm reading it now and loving it!!
Read some of your Penguin Black Spines lol
If you read Old Yeller, better prepare yourself with a Bo of Kleenex.
Does Carolyn have a favorite novel written this century about the victorian era?😊
James Baldwin! And ghostways!
1. Ghostways
2. So late in the day
3. Calvino
1. So late in the day
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
3. Galatea 😊
off topic but can we have a hair routine? your hair looks gorgeous
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is fantastic & nice and short!
1. Galatea
2. Italo Calvino
3. Dante Alighieri
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF ALL TIME 🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊please please please pick it up i absolutely promise you will not regret it!!!! besides that i think the keegan would be a great choice! haven’t read it myself yet but i’ve heard nothing but amazing things :)
LOVED Sense and Sensibility Both 1995 Movie And Book😊🤎📚
1. So late in the day; 2.(Rest of them) xD
Old Yeller is also a movie. I did not know it was a book....
Great options! I'd love to hear your thoughts on those.
1. Dante
2. Calvino
3. Baldwin
4. Ghostways
5. Galatea
6. Ichiguro
7. So late in the day
8. Old yeller
1. Calvino
2. Dante
3. Baldwin
Old Yeller 😭😭
I hope we get to meet your boyfriend soon! :)
1. Baldwin
2. Dante
3. Keegan
Galatea
Dante’s circles of Hell
Old Yeller
Ghostways and Galatea.
Galatea definitely
They all sound awesome! My top 3 (that is books I'd like to hear you talk about) would be the James Baldwin one, Galatea and Sense and Sensibility. Happy reading! 😊
Old Yeller is so sad 😭
What a lovely mug 🥰 My ranking is: 1. A few of the little black classics, I think finishing a few short stories would help keep up with the pace 2. Sense and sensibility 😁 3. Italo Calvino 4. James Baldwin 5. The rest of them (not really my taste). Enjoy the readathon!
My vote is for “If Beale Street Could Talk.” It is probably my favorite book that I have read from Baldwin. 😎📚👍
For so late in the day- there were 2 editions published- the first edition only had one story in it and then the second edition had 3 😂 I ran into it when I first purchased it as well
Also- sense and sensibility is available as an audio book and it’s narrated by Rosamund Pike (who played Jane in the Pride and Prejudice in 2005) so that would be my vote!
Dante is awesome- highly recommend!
1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Galatea
3. Into the War / Italo Calvino
4. Ghostways
5. So Late in the Day
6. Dante’s Circles of Hell
7. Come Rain or Come Shine
8. Old Yeller
From one Italian-American to another, I'm so happy to hear that one of my favorite booktubers is also Italian! Also, I read Dante's Inferno and I thought it was excellent! I think you would really enjoy it! ❤
All Sound Very Interesting But I Think You Should
1.Galatea
2. Old Yeller
3.Beale Street and
4.Into The War, 😊📚
I recommend Galatea, Circles of hell, and into the war. I’ve read them all and they’re good. Especially Dante’s works!
I’ve read a couple novels you mentioned like Old Yeller, and If Beale Street Could Talk. I dislike this Baldwin novel from a personal and literary point of view. It’s overrated imo.
I couldn’t stop crying when Marianne saw Willoughby and he acted cold towards her. Reminded me of my younger self.
Happy reading! Dante's Divine Comedy long-time favorite of mine. There's a course on the Internet, a visiting Italian Professor at Yale going through the thee parts of the comedy (inferno, purgatorio, Paradise), and it does work better when you understand it as a love poem. Otherwise there is a tendency to focus on the horrors of hell, which are eye-popping but less meaningful without ultimate context. Enjoy!
1. Galatea - I enjoyed this one
2. Ghostways
3. Circles of Hell
Ok, my Top-3:
1. ''If Beale Street Could Talk''.
2. ''Galatea''.
3. ''Into the War''.
Happy reading :)
My order: So Late in the Day, If Beale Street Could Talk, Into the War, Galatea, Old Yeller, Ghostways, Circles of Hell
I love the idea, here’s my top list!
1. If beale street could talk
2. Dante’s circles of hell
3. Into the war
4. So late in the day
5. Old yeller
6. Ghost ways
7. Galatea
What a coincidence, I watched ‘Sense and Sensibility’ adaptation couple of days ago. Loved it ❤
Looking forward to a vlog 🙌🏻
If Beal street could talk is just a masterpiece. I’m so excited to know your opinion about it. 🌸 (he’s a 10 but he doesn’t want to read all day long with me that’s an easy 0 😂)
I can absolutely recommend Dante’s Inferno / Divine Comedy! 😍(Hozier´s taste is just chefs kiss!)
If you decide to read more of Dante I’d definitely recommend trying an edition with both the English and the original Italian! Even if you can’t understand much of the Italian yet you can get a sense of how the original sounds out loud, which is so much of the beauty of it. Also, get an edition with an introduction and plenty of notes, because the divine comedy is so complex you need all that context to keep up with it! Hope you enjoy it ✨
Great choices! I haven’t read any of these, but I’ve read from some of these authors before. You can’t go wrong with Madeline Miller or James Baldwin.
My picks:
1. Galatea
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
3. So Late in the Day
1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Galatea
3 .So Late In The Day
happiest of reads tomorrow !!
The little black Dante!❤ Can you do it in bilingual? Once I heard someone read Dante’s Divine Comedy in Italian and it was so euphonious! Italian language is so rhythmical and romantic.❤
Sense and Sensibility as it is FebRegency then James Baldwin and the Dante book..
Looks like a fun time! I’m currently reading two cantos a week from the entire The Divine Comedy and because there’s 100 cantos, I’ll finish at the end of December! It’s a perfect year long project if you want to read Dante.
1. Dante
2. So late in the day
3. Calvino
4. Galatea
5. Baldwin
6. Ghostways
7. Ichiguro
8. Old yeller
Wow! 24 hours reading would be great! I'm currently jobless.. I was going to a nearby library to spend my time... but still i wanted to do something different.. your idea of readathon of different writings is something which would interest me 😁
Hi! I would love to hear about Galatea and James Baldwin's book. I would not read Old Yeller, fearing it could be sad and I would cry. A lot. Have a great readathon with your boyfriend! Happy reading! ❤📚
Marcus Aurelius meditations could be an option. If i were an Italian i feel it to be a must read. Not fiction but cool as heck to read the thoughts of one of the great emperors. A stoic philosopher.
My ranking:
1. Galatea
2. Into the War
3. Come Rain or Come Shine
I love Austen. I'm planning on making my way through all of her work. I've read 3 of her novels, but not Sense & Sensibility yet. I saw the movie as well and enjoyed it.
My vote goes to Keegan and Baldwin. Your edition of So Late in the Day is from the US where they published it with 2 of her older short stories. In the UK, So Late in the Day was published as a stand alone novella. Look forward to the readathon vlog!
Hi Carolyn. Thank you so much for reigniting my love of reading and to not be intimidated by The Classics anymore! I’m currently reading Jane Eyre and Anna Karenina is waiting in the wings!
I also love how you embrace books from your childhood and teen years. One book that is a favorite of my teens in The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene. Every few years I love picking it up again.
Thanks again
I pick for you: If Beale Street Could Talk, Old Yeller, Ishiguro's and Galatea. Happy readings, Carolyn! ❤😊
1. Chess, 2. The Fall. 3. Mother Night. If children's classic is a must, Peter Pan. Happy reading!!. Thank you for the video.
A vloooog!
I loved Galatea, so impactful for such a short story, I kept thinking about it for days after reading it. Sense and Sensibility is amazing, you'll love it when you get round to it, I loved the movie too. Haven't read the others but would love to hear your thoughts on the Dante and Calvino
I know you already have a bunch of ideas 😅 but you should look at reading book 2 of the earthsea series! it's fairly short and, i think, a lot more engaging than book 1! ❤
1. So late in the day, 2. circles of hell, 3. into the war would be my top three picks :)
Galatea and ishiguro book definitely!!!
This mug!!!!! Where did you get it from???😊
I vote for Galatea, If Beal Street Could Talk , Old Yeller and Dantes book
Into the war is 3 short stories, super easy to read and very interesting as a depiction of not understanding exactly what a war mean/ what the future holds up.
I feel like if you gonna read dante, read the whole thing, not an excerpt?? lol
1. Baldwin
2. Keegan
3. Calvino
If I had to pick, I'd say Galatea, Dante's Circles of Hell, Old Yeller, and Into the War are the ones I would prioritize :) So excited for your 24hr Readathon video!
that mug is so cute!! my top 3 are circles of hell, galatea, and ghostways :) I cant wait to see what ur bf reads too!!