I always love waking up and seeing a Video from you. I always wake up and immediately watch your Videos which is between 3 and 4 am Indiana time. You got several Victorian Books to read over the next few years. They all sound good too. I hope that you will enjoy them all as you read each one of these. I am going to finish reading Out Of Circulation by Miranda James. I was reading some Library Books but it is very bitter cold out and we got snow so I took them back to my local library. Take Care & Happy Reading ❤️🤗☕️📖🔰📒📚❤️
I Just discovered your Channel, thank to Books and Bao last wrap up where Willow talks about your book 👍. Really happy to find a lot of inspiration here for my readings as I want to explore more Victorian era novels ! 😊 I enjoy reading in English (my second language as you probably guessed) 😀, and I like your enthousiasm 👍
Seem to recall reading "Phantastes" decades ago. Liked it well enough to finish it, I think, but I don't remember much. In fact, according to the synopsis, I don't remember anything. 🤔 Went looking for my copy and all I found was my misplaced edition of "Lolita" that I was looking for earlier this year. Well, one mystery solved. Happy reading!
What a great list! I’m putting several of them on mine. Of the ones I’ve read, I’ve most enjoyed The Doctor’s Wife (which really seemed modern to me), The Daisy Chain, The Dead Secret (I’m a huge Wilkie Collins fan and I got a kick out of your pairing him with Braddon), and The Wood Beyond The World. I love that you mentioned William Morris. This was the first book on your list that I ever read, a lifetime ago when I was on a William Morris kick in college. On the other hand, I’ve tried to read The Perpetual Curate several times and just couldn’t get into it. I don’t know why because it sounds like something I’d like and I do like Margaret Oliphant.
Canadian here- Your videos post at 1030pm my time and I always look forward to watching your videos before bed. I’m slowly working on putting together my next TBR and it’s so much fun.
Looking forward to hearing about all these interesting reads in the future! I'm still in my beginner journey with Victorian Literature so in the next 2 years I'm hoping to have started reading Trollope and Elliot, and to continue reading Hardy, Wilde, Collins and Gaskell.
No, it's not too early for a new tbr; I find mine is a work in progress, or something to be revised after being stumbled over while looking for something else. For me, the only disappointment in 2023 is William Faulkner. Also there is the Collected Poems of Anne Sexton, tho I didn't actually expect a great deal of progress there. So, both of those authors are high up on the list for '24, and I expect I'll try to squeeze in some John Steinbeck. Usually I put a few French language books on the list, tho they tend to be impulse purchases, even if I say I want to read the French Nobelists. Thx Kate - Happy holidays!
Love your classics content!! I gave up on Sybil by Disraeli, will be interested to hear how you like Coningsby. I'm thinking of rereading the barchester series even though I have masses of Trollope titles I haven't read yet. He is so good.
I have added some of these to my own Victorian TBR. I love how enthusiastic you are about Victorian novels. I am reading A Tale of Two Cities and Bleak House before the year end. I also want to reread some Trollope beginning in December but going into 2024.
I thought A Life for a Life sounded interesting so I paused the video and picked it up for my Kindle. Looks like a great list - can't wait to see what you think of them all.
What a great list Katie! Some of these are on my own very vague TBR. I’ve only read a few of these, A Superfluous Woman which I really enjoyed although I’m not sure about that description 😉I’ve also read The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson and Ayala’s Angel and really enjoyed both. I’m yet to read most of these authors but thank you for the inspiration to pick them up!
Interesting and eclectic list as always! Of your books for 24 & 25 I've read: 1) The Perpetual Curate, which is probably my favorite of the Carlingford series; 2) The Doctor's Wife, written as a response to Madame Bovary, so keep that in mind as you read it. (I liked it better than Flaubert); 3) The Unsocial Socialist, with some interesting views on marriage, but does go off on philosophical tangents, which was OK for me; 4) Trollope's Struggles--completely different from any other Trollope I've read, and I didn't get on with it, but that just might have been my "Trollopian" expectations. I also have Jessie Phillips on my TBR--hopefully this upcoming year or Victober; and YES to William Morris--I'm not much of a design person either, but he can't go wrong in my book. That novel sounds interesting and I will try to find it. Thanks!
Please let us know what you think of your new Ellen Wood book. I recently purchased another one of hers, having enjoyed East Lynne. The title is Dene Hollow, and it is supposed to have elements of the supernatural. Really looking forward to reading another book of hers.
My goal is to read as much Anthony Trollope as well, I'm starting at seven and Elizabeth Gaskell, I'm starting at 2. I read The Light Princess by George McDonald and it's wonderful and funny, and Night Girl and The Day Boy is a fairytale geared older and very poetic. They are both about hour reads.
Wow! I love hearing about these lesser known Victorian authors and novels. "Women would be prettier in a socialist society." 😂😂😂 These Victorian men crack me up. All I can do is roll my eyes and laugh. I recently finished The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins, and I was doing just that throughout. 😅
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I always love waking up and seeing a Video from you. I always wake up and immediately watch your Videos which is between 3 and 4 am Indiana time. You got several Victorian Books to read over the next few years. They all sound good too. I hope that you will enjoy them all as you read each one of these.
I am going to finish reading Out Of Circulation by Miranda James. I was reading some Library Books but it is very bitter cold out and we got snow so I took them back to my local library.
Take Care & Happy Reading
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Watching and listening to you in Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪 great plans and titles. ❤
Have Sheridan le Fanu's "Madam Crowl's Ghost' in my Christmas reading pile!
I Just discovered your Channel, thank to Books and Bao last wrap up where Willow talks about your book 👍. Really happy to find a lot of inspiration here for my readings as I want to explore more Victorian era novels ! 😊 I enjoy reading in English (my second language as you probably guessed) 😀, and I like your enthousiasm 👍
Always learning about "new to me" Victorian authors! Thank you! 📚❤
Just finished Mayhew’s London Labor… (Read as well as listened to the Audible book). Well worth it. Revolutionized the way I read Victorian fiction.
Seem to recall reading "Phantastes" decades ago. Liked it well enough to finish it, I think, but I don't remember much. In fact, according to the synopsis, I don't remember anything. 🤔 Went looking for my copy and all I found was my misplaced edition of "Lolita" that I was looking for earlier this year. Well, one mystery solved. Happy reading!
Fabulous list - many new titles ( to me) and some I have heard of but have not got round to yet! Inspiring - now I have to go and make my list!
I loved the Dead Secret.
Some great books there. Best wishes with your reading.
Thank you!
What a great list! I’m putting several of them on mine. Of the ones I’ve read, I’ve most enjoyed The Doctor’s Wife (which really seemed modern to me), The Daisy Chain, The Dead Secret (I’m a huge Wilkie Collins fan and I got a kick out of your pairing him with Braddon), and The Wood Beyond The World. I love that you mentioned William Morris. This was the first book on your list that I ever read, a lifetime ago when I was on a William Morris kick in college.
On the other hand, I’ve tried to read The Perpetual Curate several times and just couldn’t get into it. I don’t know why because it sounds like something I’d like and I do like Margaret Oliphant.
Demos is one I really enjoyed! Just discovered Gissing a few years ago and have been reading whatever I can find!
Canadian here- Your videos post at 1030pm my time and I always look forward to watching your videos before bed. I’m slowly working on putting together my next TBR and it’s so much fun.
Thanks very much :)
Looking forward to hearing about all these interesting reads in the future! I'm still in my beginner journey with Victorian Literature so in the next 2 years I'm hoping to have started reading Trollope and Elliot, and to continue reading Hardy, Wilde, Collins and Gaskell.
Love love love Le Fanu.
No, it's not too early for a new tbr; I find mine is a work in progress, or something to be revised after being stumbled over while looking for something else. For me, the only disappointment in 2023 is William Faulkner. Also there is the Collected Poems of Anne Sexton, tho I didn't actually expect a great deal of progress there. So, both of those authors are high up on the list for '24, and I expect I'll try to squeeze in some John Steinbeck. Usually I put a few French language books on the list, tho they tend to be impulse purchases, even if I say I want to read the French Nobelists. Thx Kate - Happy holidays!
Love your classics content!! I gave up on Sybil by Disraeli, will be interested to hear how you like Coningsby. I'm thinking of rereading the barchester series even though I have masses of Trollope titles I haven't read yet. He is so good.
I have added some of these to my own Victorian TBR. I love how enthusiastic you are about Victorian novels. I am reading A Tale of Two Cities and Bleak House before the year end. I also want to reread some Trollope beginning in December but going into 2024.
Great selection! Workers in the Dawn is one of my favorite classics. It is so fabulously bleak 💔
So excited for that one! George Gissing is amazing
I thought A Life for a Life sounded interesting so I paused the video and picked it up for my Kindle. Looks like a great list - can't wait to see what you think of them all.
What a great list Katie! Some of these are on my own very vague TBR. I’ve only read a few of these, A Superfluous Woman which I really enjoyed although I’m not sure about that description 😉I’ve also read The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson and Ayala’s Angel and really enjoyed both. I’m yet to read most of these authors but thank you for the inspiration to pick them up!
Good to know on A Superfluous Woman!
I recommend Ann Hereford by Ellen Wood. It's a sensation novel with some Jane Eyre/Villette vibes
Interesting and eclectic list as always! Of your books for 24 & 25 I've read: 1) The Perpetual Curate, which is probably my favorite of the Carlingford series; 2) The Doctor's Wife, written as a response to Madame Bovary, so keep that in mind as you read it. (I liked it better than Flaubert); 3) The Unsocial Socialist, with some interesting views on marriage, but does go off on philosophical tangents, which was OK for me; 4) Trollope's Struggles--completely different from any other Trollope I've read, and I didn't get on with it, but that just might have been my "Trollopian" expectations. I also have Jessie Phillips on my TBR--hopefully this upcoming year or Victober; and YES to William Morris--I'm not much of a design person either, but he can't go wrong in my book. That novel sounds interesting and I will try to find it. Thanks!
Please let us know what you think of your new Ellen Wood book. I recently purchased another one of hers, having enjoyed East Lynne. The title is Dene Hollow, and it is supposed to have elements of the supernatural. Really looking forward to reading another book of hers.
My goal is to read as much Anthony Trollope as well, I'm starting at seven and Elizabeth Gaskell, I'm starting at 2.
I read The Light Princess by George McDonald and it's wonderful and funny, and Night Girl and The Day Boy is a fairytale geared older and very poetic. They are both about hour reads.
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Wow! I love hearing about these lesser known Victorian authors and novels. "Women would be prettier in a socialist society." 😂😂😂 These Victorian men crack me up. All I can do is roll my eyes and laugh. I recently finished The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins, and I was doing just that throughout. 😅
I mean, really, William Morris? REALLY?! XD