LET'S GET CLASSICAL: A-Z OF CLASSICS READALONG // classics readalong announcement
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Welcome to Let's Get Classical, an A - Z of classics readalong! Classics can be scary, daunting and sometimes it's difficult to know where to start when it comes to reading classics so, Sarah and I decided to take some of the stress out of classics by hosting a readalong! Ultimately, we want to get out of our reading comfort zones and make reading classics fun! So, for the next 26 months, we'll be reading a classic every month, making out way through the alphabet as we go! We can't wait to embark on this classics reading journey and we hope you'll join us!
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The schedule:
A - At It With Atwood - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (March 2022)
B - Big Up The Brontes - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (April 2022)
C - Chilling With Charles - Hard Times by Charles Dickens (May 2022)
D - Down With Daphne - The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier (June 2022)
E - Evening With Eliot - Silas Marner by George Eliot (July 2022)
F - Freak out With Frankenstein - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (August 2022)
G - Good Times With Gatsby - The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (September 2022)
H - Hard For Hardy - Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy (October 2022)
I - In It With Isherwood - A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (November 2022)
J - Jumping for Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (December 2022)
K - Kicking it With Kerouac - On the Road by Jack Kerouac (January 2023)
L - Live Laugh Love With Little Women - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (February 2023)
M - Mastering the Margarita - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (March 2023)
N - Night In With Nabokov - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (April 2023)
O - Oh What Fun With Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (May 2023)
P - Party with Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (June 2023)
Q - Quest With Quixote - Don Quixote by Cervantes (July 2023)
R - Rolling Down The Road - The Road by Cormac McCarthy (August 2023)
S - Stepping Out With Steinbeck - East of Eden by John Steinbeck (September 2023)
T - Tripping With Tolstoy - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (October 2023)
U- You, Me and Haruki Murakami are going underground - Underground by Haruki Murakami (November 2023)
V - Vibing With Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (December 2023)
W - Work it with Waugh - Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (January 2024)
X - Xcuse me, we can't find a book that starts with X, but X marks the spot so we're reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (February 2024)
Y - Yeeting it with Yates - Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (March 2024)
Z - Zany with Zelda - Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald (April 2024)
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You mentioned so many books I happend to have on my tbr for years...I guess there is no excuse anymore:)
Aww how perfect!
Oh ! Slaughterhouse 5 is absolutely amazing , funny and completely bonkers ! A truly wonderful book one of my favourites
I'm definitely joining your readalong! So many new books to discover!
Side note from a Russian native speaker: it's BulgAkov, not BUlgakov. The accent falls on "a", not on "u"
Ooh thanks for the tip!
I absolutely adore this, and you have sooo many good books on this list! 💚🦋
Thanks Mary!
So excited to spend the next 26 months reading with you 👯♀️
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I might join you for some of these but I'm a very slow reader. I love The House on The Strand. I read it about 10 years ago. Sarah is right with the pronunciation of Waugh. It's one of my Dad's favourite books.
yey! so excited for this! i definitely will be joining 😊😊
So glad you’re joining!
This is such a great idea, I'm really excited about this readathon! And I love the books that you have selected. At first I wasn't too excited about the first few books but then I realised that this was a wonderful opportunity to broaden my literary horizons, so I'm joining from the letter A. I've also read three books from your list (The Master and Margarita, The Great Gatsby and Slaughterhouse 5) but I would love to re-read all of them, so I'm looking forward to that too.
Funny you should say that as that’s exactly what we’ve tried to do for ourselves! Some titles we’re really excited about and others not so much but hoping those ones will get us out of our comfort zones! Glad you’ll be joining!
This is a fantastic list and will be definitely joining in with some , as a-lot here i have already read .
Big up the Bronte will be my first Ann Bronte and have recently purchased this as well so looking forward to this . You are in for a treat with Master and Margarita - I have several translations , including the Penguin Deluxe . Enjoy x
Excited for this!! I’d love to see a reaction vid for Little Women haha That’s one of my favorite films ever ✨
It’s one of my faves too - can’t wait to rewatch!
“Love the titanic… the film not the boat” 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha just to clarify😂
So many of these I bought in the past 2 years with the intention to read soon-and this is definitely the kickstart to help me do that! Can’t wait to start-this sounds so much fun!
Aww perfect!
Oh I love the both of you! And be definitely joining in some of these great books! Greetings from Berlin 📚
So glad you’ll be joining!
Love the idea! I'll be joining for sure.
So glad!!
Great 😁 i planned to read some of those classics this year. That's perfect timing 👍 your videos are so relaxing. Lots of love from Belgium
I am so happy that I stumbled across your channel. Hello from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺. Two things I absolutely love... books ... especially classic books and tea.
I am so excited about this readalong. This was a great idea! 🥰
Aww thank you so much!
This sounds so fun! I’m in😊. The only book I won’t be reading is Lolita. I hated that one, and have been trying to forget it ever since I read it ten years ago. Thank you for doing this girls🥰.
Very excited! I think I’ll join in for a couple of these :)
This is SUCH a cool idea for a readathon! I can't wait to take part! x
Very exciting! I might join in with some of the books cause I'm afraid I won't be able to read them all :D But I have already read 2 books of your list: The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov and Lolita by Nabokov.
Oh I'm so pleased you have chosen a play. This is an amazing challenge and I hope I can join you, who knows what the next 2 years brings!! 😆
Yay! This sounds like fun! I do own (and haven't read) many of these, so I'll definitely join for those! And for some authors, I do own others books by them so I might read one I have already, I'll see :) But excited about this readalong!
This kind of challenge is definitely something I would love to join! GREAT idea
aww that’s a great idea to still get involved in all of the reads!
Ahh this is so fun!! I definitely want to join for some of these! I love the titles btw 😂
Hahha glad you appreciate them😂
No Dracula? :( I am excited for this cause there is a ton that I have not even heard of. I’ll have to print the schedule.
So fun !!! Though I wish Z was for Zola !!!!
Ooh - is that a book or an author?
I’m so excited for this. I’ve been wanting to try Anne Brontë for ages. Sounds like a plan
So excited for this thank you! Love the selection, got ones on my shelves and ones I've wanted to get round to! Most excited for Frankenstein cause I've been waiting for the "right" time to read it for years haha, and Steinbeck (obvs I did mice and men too and didn't really enjoy it as a teen who only read YA haha so interested to see what I'll think of him, plus I've been wanting to read a multi-generational (I think it is?) epic), and Zelda! Fitz is my fave author and I heard the rumours he took her ideas or whatever but always thought it was diaries, so looking forward to that one too, and so many others:)
aww so glad you’re excited for some of these picks!
This is SO exciting! I'm definitely going to join in for some! And you guys are correct with a lot of the movie info here: A Single Man starring Colin Firth. Revolutionary Road starring Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
I'm American so idk how helpful this is but I say Waugh more like Sarah, like I'm about to say "water" but ignore the -ter. btw, I LOVE Brideshead Revisited! I read it in 2020 and thought it was just good, like a solid 3/5 stars, but then I KEPT THINKING ABOUT IT! It ended up having such an impact on me and I've come to really appreciate and respect the story and direction it takes with things, which I was initially disappointed by a little bit when I had read it. Like, it's one of my all-time favorite books, now! AND it's been recently adapted into a new miniseries (there's already a miniseries from 1981 and a film from 2008) that should be coming out this year. It's directed and written by Luca Guadagnino who is most known for Call Me By Your Name and it's starring Andrew Garfield, Joe Alwyn, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, and Ralph Fiennes. I just bought Decline & Fall by Waugh, so I'm hoping to get to that this year and reread Brideshead before the new adaptation comes out, even if it ends up getting pushed back. Things are so up in the air with release dates nowadays. Also, I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles last year and it was one of my favorites I read in 2021!!
Joining in!!!
im so excited! I just reread pride & prejudice and now im on a major classics kick
I’m so excited for this! 🥰
Ahhh Atwood for A! She’s my favorite author and Alias Grace is one of my faves of hers. Also I love that you mentioned Oryx and Crake…not many people talk about it. It’s actually the first book of a trilogy and I’m reading the second book currently - The Year of the Flood.
Wonderful idea! I am joining in! Great selection!!! From the books chosen, Frankenstein is the one I enjoy the least. Maybe this time I change my opinion.
I haven't read the book, but love the movie Revolutionary Road! It's amazing but be prepared to be broken
Hahah can’t wait!
Oh yes, Revolutionary Road (the movie) broke me... I couldn't stop crying for a few hours after watching it. I wanted to read the book ever since, but never came round to it, so I'm really glad that it's on the list.
I'm sure Olivia Newton-John approves,and I have never rahd Wow before.😁
Hahaha😂
I can’t wait for you to read Don Quixote, this is so funny hahaha. Also the complete name of the author is Miguel de Cervantes
This is a really great idea with a lot of planning, which i love doing. Some of this books are in my reading list so I will partially join
1st to comment. I love your videos freaking much! Keep it up and be happy :D
Thank you so much!
Robert Louis Stevenson also wrote my absolute childhood love ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’ that are so beautiful to read to children.
East Of Eden is one of my favorite classics
Hello, in the description for the letter K you put January 2022 instead of 2023
Happy to join 😊😊
What a fantastic idea!
X: Xantippe and Other Verse by Amy Levy
They said it couldn’t be done, but I did it! I found a classic book for “X”! It’s perhaps not as well known as the others on this list, it’s barely in circulation, and technically Xantippe is a poetry collection, but it counts! The title poem, Xantippe, is an imagined monologue from Socrates’ wife as she lay on her death bed. It’s the star of the show, and well worth checking out for that reason alone…
Letter U is not on the list. Underground by Haruki Murakami. 😊
Good catch - have added it in😂
In your list, you forgot the letter U and the corresponding book. In your video, you mentioned the book “Underground”, but it didn’t make it to your list. I was going crazy trying to figure out why I only counted 25 books on your list, instead of 26. 😂
Ooh my bad - thanks for catching, I’ve added it in now - Underground by Haruki Murakami! We did consider Ulysses but as we’re reading another Joyce earlier on decided to go for something different!
@@BooksAtMidnight Having read Ulysses, I'm actually glad that it's not on the list. It's a complex book and I feel like a month wouldn't be enough for it. It's doable of course, but I wouldn't rush with it to do it proper justice.
I always thought Evelyn Waugh was pronounced like ‘Woah’ and now I’m questioning everything.
Waugh is generally pronounced similar to War.