You should do a "Showing you all my classics", I think you have a very interesting selection on your shelves and your taste is amazing!!!!! Love from Mexico
As an American who also loves the Vintage red spines, along with basically all the classics designs in the UK over the US, I recommend ordering from Blackwells instead of Waterstones. Blackwells is owned by Waterstones, so it has the exact same inventory -- BUT the shipping is free at Blackwells unlike Waterstones. If you can wait 15-25 days, the books will arrive with free shipping.
A lot of great books! The Lady of the Camelias is by Alexander Dumas' son ("fils") and I believe it is inspired by the author's own life. Happy readings! Love from Portugal
The Lady of the Camellias was my maternal grandmother's favourite novel; she loved the film with Robert Taylor based on the book....not all that well, but OK. My grandmother insisted so should read it when I turned 21....Goodness knows why ! However,I was really busy with anatomy and physiology at the time do never got to read it. What have you done to me 😂 now I have to get the book and honour Granmama's wishes 😊 Thanks 🙂
I just stumbled upon this video, Mackenzie, but this was such an enjoyable book haul! I love the selection of books and classics you're keen on reading and what interests you about them - so many on my tbr as well! I love themes of nature and religion/theology as well! A new subscriber ☺️
I love your Carolyn Marie reads portrait of George Eliot in the background, Carolyn is so talented and George Eliot is a new favorite author of mine recently.
It’s so exciting to see somebody with an anglophone background being interested in Effi Briest 😍 it’s my all time favourite book. I’m German but live in the UK and I noticed how under appreciated the book is in the English speaking world while it’s one of the big classics in Germany. I hope you enjoy it!
Great video !! Love Oxford and penguin so much too.. jealous of the haul ! Also, just in case you didn’t know, lady of camellias is written by the son of dumas (of Monte Cristo and musketeer fame). In France they usually distinguish this by writing (pere) for father and (fils) for son after each name 😊
@@mckenziekate i only learned about that recently too Haha yes that’ll explain why it’s a different style than musketeers and monte cristo! Hope you enjoy !!
I have just stumbled across your channel and it’s absolutely wonderful! I adore your passion for classics and am eagerly adding to my colossal TBR all these! You are fabulous 😊
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is an absolute masterpiece, but fair warning it is also absolutely excruciating. The main reason is because the narrator keeps getting so distracted from the story he's trying to tell that he gets lost in countless digressions and endless wheels within wheels, and as a result some people love it and some people absolutely hate it. The whole thing is just one giant leg-pull on the audience, like the longest practical joke ever written. The jokes still make me laugh more than 250 years on so I hope you'll find stuff to enjoy, but considering that the theme running through the book is that life is so chaotic and amorphic that you can never get it to fit any shape, and that it acts as a commentary on man's inability to communicate with other human beings, it's rather fitting that Tristram never gets round to actually writing the story. Also, really lovely vid!
Oh my goodness! I freaking love this mini review so much 🤩 it literally makes me want to pick the book up rn! I hope I fall on the side of loving it but I guess we will see. And thank you for watching!
@@mckenziekate Hahaha awwh thank you 😊 that's really kind. There aren't many novels about how life is too rich/complex to be captured by any kind of art, and I feel like if you know in advance that it has no story, then it's less of a kick in the teeth when you pick it up and find that it has little of the life and basically none of the opinions of the main character.
You have a great collection of books. My favorite book of all time is The Brother's Karamazov because each brother has it's own point of view in life, I love the discussions between Ivan and Aliosha about the existence of God. It has a great story arc as well. Russian Literature in the 19th Century was really deep. :)
If we live to be a hundred we and read everyday yes, it would not cover a billionth percent of one percent of the books in an average sized town library ! Sad that lifespan is so short; even sadder that some of us waste our time in mundane things when we love books !
@@mckenziekate I’m glad you enjoyed it! The ending hit me so hard! It’s the only Steinbeck I’ve read but my friend Baron from Your Brain on Books highly recommends East of Eden.
i’ve been watching so many videos on classics lately and i’m so glad yours showed up on my suggested!!! so many good recommendations, many i have heard and many i have not, absolutely love it! there’s nothing as wonderful as getting way too many books. i just recently began my classics journey this year, and i’m already so overwhelmed with how many of them i want to read. i’m actually currently reading Milton’s Paradise Lost and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (btw, Ovid was Roman, not Greek! I thought he was Greek for years though tbf), and some short stories by Willa Cather (i don’t know if she’s considered classic but she’s one of my favorites and deserves to be read). I loved this video and i’m excited to watch more of them !!!
Ahh thank you so much for the correction! I did know that I just think sometimes when you get excited random stuff comes out of my mouth lmao 😂 it is SO overwhelming how many classics there are and I always want to read them all! You will have to let me know if you read any more of Cather’s works or any of her novels! I haven’t read her yet and am interested!
@@mckenziekate omg I feel you for sure, you should totally read Cather's My Antonia!!! It's absolutely stunning, one of my favorite books, Cather is so unique I adore her!!
Came across this video on my recommended page and what can I say, where the heck have I been 😭. I don’t come across made booktubers who love books that explore religion/theology and nature so hearing that you do is amazing! Will definitely be adding some of the books you mentioned on to my growing tbr!
Loved it ! I love classics as well so I added many new books to my TBR. I also love Penguin and Vintage Editions 🎉 I have yet to read Yates and I almost ordered the three books 😅 I love Middllemarch and plan to read her again. And the Russian authors 😊 this video was awesome thanks !
Thanks, great video - I've added lots of titles to my TBR list! One for you - if you haven't yet 'got' John Steinbeck, I recommend East of Eden. It's his masterpiece, one to be read and re-read.
@@mckenziekate yes please don’t give up on him! Grapes of wrath might not be the one to save your opinion of him, but east of Eden will (it changed my mind about him) ! Esp if you like novels touching upon religion (which I’m not particularly keen to but he did it so well ) and highlights the salinas valley of California beautifully. It might be longer.. but it’ll go by fast ! (And that’s coming from a slow reader!) Im glad I found your channel, actually feel we are alike in reading tastes/styles and approaches ! (Love G. Eliot as well)
@@jennyyeh4730 I am so glad to find someone who shares similar reading tastes! That is always such a joy ⭐️ and I will pick up East of Edwin I promise!
I am new here! I have recently start reading classics, but because of Emma! ahhaha since its my second language, I find it a bit hard to brisk through and really have to take my time in it.
The way you talk about these books!! Your descriptions/explanations, inputs of your thoughts and/or additional, interesting facts made it feel so, like, personal 🥲?? Idk, but it just really makes me want to purchase every single one.
Grapes of Wrath was boring lol. But East of Eden is one of my favorite books ever. It is truly a work of art. Also, I read the introduction after I read the book. I feel like it is better that way lol. I want to go in blind and just enjoy the experience. Vintage has the BEST covers.
I just picked up a copy of East of Eden Last week! Everyone has said it’s much better than Grapes of Wrath haha And I will for sure read the introduction after reading the book! Haha
I loved The Grapes of Wrath but got bored stuff when Tom and S Al had to fix the vehicle all the time, the l ing description of A has to go below B but watch out invade C drops yes 😂 the flood near the end was boring and the End was disgusting. However, East of Eden awaits ! My TBR list has really increased beyond any possibility of it being completed, mostly because of brickbooks (I call any book over 800 pages a brickbook) ! Alas, I have now added even more books by Willie Collins and some will require me to use a microscope 😂😂 Btw: Subscribed.
I have so many of those! Great choices. The feeling of getting a beautiful pile of books is really unparalleled. Currently reading Shirley. Love ❤ I recently got Guy de Maupassant’s “Like Death”. I am so excited for it. I honestly feel that Russian classics delve so deeply into the psychological make up of human beings, it is almost claustrophobic in the best of ways. Great haul. Happy Victober and happy reading. ☕️
Ahhh thank you so much! I am SO excited to read Shirley!! It is on my Victober tbr ⭐️ If you read “Like Death” please message me and let me know your thoughts! I’ll try to read it around the same time... It is SO fascinating to see/feel the cohesive vibes of the literature of any given country. Do you have a favorite Russian novel? I hope your evening/day is going beautifully!
@@mckenziekate Anna Karenina is my favorite novel of all time. i reread it every single year 🤗 I honestly learn something new about myself with each reading. I was forever changed by Crime and Punishment. I'll be reading The Idiot this winter season... wondering how I'll feel, but I can depend on Dostoyevsky to plunge me into despair. Karolina Pavlova is wonderful and rarely mentioned. You just can't go wrong with either Puskin, Turgenev, Chekhov, or Gogol. Happy reading! 📕 Oh and yes we can certainly do a loose buddy read of sorts of Like Death!
@@KindleAndCoffeeCups Anna Karenina is one of the greatest novels ever for sure! And I NEED to just finally jump into Dostoyevsky, I keep putting it off bc I am nervous/intimidated lol so stupid, I just need to push through. And maybe after I read Turgenev I will give Gogol a try. And yay! Looking forward to it. Do you have an Instagram?
@@mckenziekate Hey I replied and have no idea how/why it got deleted. I abandoned my Instagram, but always say I'm going back. It's (at) coffeeandcopyrights . Hopefully they won't delete this comment again. Ughhhh it's 1984 yall.
@@KindleAndCoffeeCups lol it really is 1984 😂🥲 that has happened to me many times before (comments getting deleted) And ok yay I will go follow you there!
As a matter of curiosity, are you a quick reader ? The average speed of reading is supposedly 100 pages per hour , but to be honest I read half that speed unless the books relate to my profession: medicine ! Good luck from an avid reader from GB.
Hello! I would NOT call myself a fast reader at all! I did not know that that was the average pace and I am horrified to be quite frank, lol. I probably read 50 pages per hour??? Maybe?? I’m not sure. I usually read fantasy or romance the fastest as the language is usually more straightforward
Buying books and reading them are two different hobbies 😂The Nibelungenlied is a medieval banger, more people getting killed than in Game of Thrones haha. Since you wanna give Steinbeck another chance and you enjoy religious themes, you might enjoy East of Eden. The Sorrows of Young Werther is great, you might like Faust by Goethe as well. Since it's all in verse I'm not sure how good the translation is though. Some more recommendations since you enjoy German literature: Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Physicists (a short play) Michael Ende - Momo (a beautiful children's book) Max Frisch - Homo Faber Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf Siegfried Lenz - The German Lesson Benedict Wells - The End of Loneliness (contemporary) Markus Werner - On the Edge (contemporary, Swiss) Edit: Since I mentioned it for Werner, Dürrenmatt and Frisch were Swiss as well of course haha.
Oh my! I already have a few of your German Lit recommendations on my shelves but will be keeping your list near me next time I go out and haul a bunch of books ⭐️ haha Thank you so much for the recommendations!
4 more German recommendations: Stefan Zweig: Chess ETA Hoffmann: The Sandman Otfried Preussler: Krabat. The legend of the Satanic Mill Heinrich Böll: The lost honour of Katharina Blum Already mentioned: Hesse’s Steppenwolf is so good !!!
Lol I am embarrassed that I did not know Remains of The Day was a movie! I will have to read it and watch it in the same week ☀️ I hope we both enjoy Ethan Frome !! Haha
For Steinbeck, you should read “East of Eden.” My grandma recommended this book to me. I said what’s it about? She shrugged and said It’s just a story about a family. I said Ok? She said Oprah recommended it. Like you said, there’s some Biblical symbology there. Most of the symbology went over my head, but it hit me on a subconscious level. The story was interesting to me and it’s about the ebbs and flows of life. I recommend.
The Lady of the Camellias is written by Alexander Dumas junior. You should read the count of Monte Cristo, it is an adventure. I love these editions, except the vintage red spines, I find them ugly.
Haha I was informed about The Lady of the Camellias 🤦🏼♀️ thank you so much for informing me as well! And that is very fair to not love certain editions ⭐️
Excellent haul! Were you able to get to Of Mice and Men? If so, how did you end up liking it? I'd honestly had a hard time getting into his longer works in the past, but I've always enjoyed his novellas and short works. I hope you like The Remains of the Day! It's my favorite Ishiguro, even though I know it's not as trendy as some of his others. Also, thanks for bringing up the Eliot short stories! I don't think I've ever read them, so I'll definitely be adding them to my tbr list.
Yes I did get to Of Mice and Men and it was a favorite read of last year! I’m honestly hoping to love the rest of the Steinbeck that I read and that the first two were just flukes haha. I haven’t gotten to Remains of the day yet but hopefully soon! And yay! I’m glad i mentioned something that wasn’t previously on your radar 🎉 I hope you’re having a beautiful day!
The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite book of all time so if you like Dumas pleeeaase pick it up! Also I read Steinbeck’s East of Eden and LOVED it. So I recommend that for him.
I will absolutely be reading The Count of Monte Cristo at some point in my life (hopefully soon!) and I have since making this video read of mice and men and LOVED it, which was a shock to me, so I will for sure be picking up East of Eden ✨
@@mckenziekate I didn’t enjoy Of Mice And Men, but it was because it was forced reading in high school so it wasn’t something I was in the mood to read at the time lol. But I still think East of Eden was way better looking back at my memories of Mice And Men. And i’m excited for you to read Count Of Monte Cristo! Heads up the beginning is slow and political so a little dry but if you push through to a certain point, it suddenly gets AMAZING.
@@littlelemoncurd6191 good to know about Monte Christo! I always appreciate when people preface certain novels by saying the start is slow, I find it to be entirely helpful when I start reading, so thank you! And omg that is totally fair about required reading. The second someone says I have to do something my brain immediately rejects it lol
@@mckenziekate lol yes exactly. If you tell me I HAVE to read a book i’m gonna hate it XD. And yea I find it helpful too because its good to know it doesnt STAY slow or dry.
The Great Courses has a couple of wonderful lectures on Augustine and the City of God as part of their series "The Early Middle Ages" with professor Philip Daileader.
Nibelungenlied is pronounced Nay-Bil- ungen-lied. Studying it for my German class in Medieval German and Modern German and it is quite interesting. Bit slow in the beginning tho.
Sixty stories are great short stories that cover surrealism, fantasy, horror, magical realism... Buzzati is basically the Italian Borges! Unfortunately I think Il Colombre isn’t translated into English 🤔 A love affair is a different kind of work, erotic and melancholic set in 60s Italy/political climates etc. I also love his children’s novel The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily. An interesting take on animals behaving like men in the worst way, think about a child’s version of Animal Farm?!
@@antonellabassi3466 oh my gosh... a children’s version of animal farm sounds AMAZING and A Love Affair sounds kind of up my alley. I will have to look into the short stories ⭐️ thank you for sharing your thoughts!
This is really enjoyable, i love it! I noticed that i have a soft spot for German writers too, Kerstin Gier, Michael Ende, Cornelia Funke, i wholeheartedly recommend. Of Funke, if you give "Mirrorworld" series a chance, it's addictive! I went as far as pleading with the author to not kill my favourite character, as she was working on the sequel 🙈 The series is somewhat connected with "Inkheart" if you watched the movie.. :)
@@mckenziekate yup, she also uses a whole bunch of legends from around the world in her series 😊 I also thank you for your reviews and all, really cool content, subscribed! 👍
Dr Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Goal are both great and so sad. Read every word Oscar Wilde ever wrote and I can recite TBoRG by heart......love it so much.
lol I’ve just recently heard a former-studytuber-who-shall-remain-nameless pronounce Goethe as ”Goath”, I assure you you’re doing just fine 😅 Also thank you algorithm for bringing me here, this was a very enjoyable video and I definitely clicked the follow button! Also added some more books to my tbr AND looked up Open University courses on literature 👀
Haha thank you! I am horrible at pronouncing names and I am ashamed tbh Glad you enjoyed the video and I could be the reason you added more titles to your tbr
I read netochka nezvanova by dostoevsky which was unfinished because he was sentenced to death and he never finished it when he came back bc he lost interest. It is ~ 150 pages but it is SOOOO GOOD even as unfinished
Are you being given these books or have you actually bought them yourself ? Please do not misconstrue my question because I would hate it if you thought I was rude in asking.
Tristram is the most experimental novel ever written and has moments of genius. However, it's 650 pages of plotlessness and often stuck in a mode of rather distant and tiresome ribaldry. To maximize your enjoyment of the novel, become comfortable with skimming and scanning.
Dostoevsky ruined literature for me because everything else I read afterwards felt dry in comparison. His earlier works aren't that great but the novels he wrote after exile (Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons/Devils/The Possessed & The Brothers Karamazov) are incalculably great. In my opinion, Dostoevsky is perhaps the greatest novelist to have ever lived (with the possible exception of Tolstoy).
I am a huge lover of Tolstoy so I entirely agree with you there. And I don’t know if your praise of Dostoyevsky, claiming he made all other literature feel dry in comparison, excites me or terrifies me haha! I will keep your words in mind however while I am reading his earlier short fiction.
@@mckenziekate It’ll excite and terrify you at the same time haha. Tolstoy is more of a sociologist while Dostoevsky really delves into the human psyche so that’s why I prefer him over Tolstoy. But that obviously doesn’t discredit Tolstoy is any way because he’s a great author too :)
@@hasikakankanithantri8857 I love your thoughts! I will obviously update when I read Dostoyevsky, and I would love to hear more of your thoughts then as well!
Dostoevsky was superior to Tolstoy in my opinion. Loved all his books,every single one. However, never finish Tolstoy's War and Peace and very unlikely to ! However,I shall attempt "Anna Karenina" ( it is in my TBR for 2024).
Ah! your birth month explains your sunny personality quite well! The enthusiasm to read worldly literatures; to be enraptured by them; your liveliness. Your resolve to finish the reading journey till you're exhausted to a white dwarf star. Tolkien was a staunch Catholic. If you see uncanny similarities to Genesis in The Silmarillion 💡, it becomes self-explanatory.And Vintage books are lovely, creatures aren't they? I've noticed myself, hmmm. Let's be honest McKenzie. Some of dem classic books are themselves big asses: Augustine's "City of God." "The Count of Monte Cristo." "The Tale of Genji." Just sayin🤣
@@joelharris4399 haha! Omg yes so many of the classics are big ass books haha And I’ve actually read the Silmarillian! And yes it felt SUPER Old Testament very book of genesis. thank you for your kind words as always! I hope you are having a great day!
hi! i would like to ask all you book lovers!! why do you not talk about the most sold book on the earth, the bible, why are people so afraid of the Holy Bible????
I am not scared of the Bible....read it 3 times and co time to read the NT. It is unfortunate that many youngsters and adults are indoctrinated into reading the Koran with the excuse that Christianity was forced into peoples brains via imperialism. Well,if you are told that then you are being indoctrinated yet again , for want of a better example.
You should do a "Showing you all my classics", I think you have a very interesting selection on your shelves and your taste is amazing!!!!! Love from Mexico
Ahh thank you so much for the comment and the idea! Yes I was thinking about doing that at some point in the future! Hope your day is beautiful ⭐️
As an American who also loves the Vintage red spines, along with basically all the classics designs in the UK over the US, I recommend ordering from Blackwells instead of Waterstones. Blackwells is owned by Waterstones, so it has the exact same inventory -- BUT the shipping is free at Blackwells unlike Waterstones. If you can wait 15-25 days, the books will arrive with free shipping.
I actually did not know this, thank you for sharing!
You're welcome!@@mckenziekate
A lot of great books! The Lady of the Camelias is by Alexander Dumas' son ("fils") and I believe it is inspired by the author's own life. Happy readings! Love from Portugal
Yes! I was informed of that after posting this haul, lol, you learn something new every day! Very exciting
The Lady of the Camellias was my maternal grandmother's favourite novel; she loved the film with Robert Taylor based on the book....not all that well, but OK.
My grandmother insisted so should read it when I turned 21....Goodness knows why ! However,I was really busy with anatomy and physiology at the time do never got to read it. What have you done to me 😂 now I have to get the book and honour Granmama's wishes 😊
Thanks 🙂
I've very recently started exploring classics. Some of these sound really good and most I've never heard of.
Yay! It is always fun to discover new works that aren’t household names haha. Do you have any favorite classics so far?
@@mckenziekate I've really enjoyed Treasure Island as well as War of the Worlds
@@samreadsbooks_13 I haven’t read either of those!
I just stumbled upon this video, Mackenzie, but this was such an enjoyable book haul! I love the selection of books and classics you're keen on reading and what interests you about them - so many on my tbr as well!
I love themes of nature and religion/theology as well!
A new subscriber ☺️
Oh my goodness! Thank you so much 😊
I love your Carolyn Marie reads portrait of George Eliot in the background, Carolyn is so talented and George Eliot is a new favorite author of mine recently.
yes yes! she is absolutely so talented! i am so glad you love George Eliot as well
It’s so exciting to see somebody with an anglophone background being interested in Effi Briest 😍 it’s my all time favourite book. I’m German but live in the UK and I noticed how under appreciated the book is in the English speaking world while it’s one of the big classics in Germany. I hope you enjoy it!
So exciting! Glad to hear it is a favorite 😍 I hope I enjoy it as well!
Great video !! Love Oxford and penguin so much too.. jealous of the haul !
Also, just in case you didn’t know, lady of camellias is written by the son of dumas (of Monte Cristo and musketeer fame). In France they usually distinguish this by writing (pere) for father and (fils) for son after each name 😊
Omg I did not know that about Dumas! Thank you so much for educating me !
@@mckenziekate i only learned about that recently too
Haha yes that’ll explain why it’s a different style than musketeers and monte cristo! Hope you enjoy !!
@@jennyyeh4730 so cool, haha thank you again so much!
I have just stumbled across your channel and it’s absolutely wonderful! I adore your passion for classics and am eagerly adding to my colossal TBR all these! You are fabulous 😊
Oh my goodness thank you so much! You are so kind ⭐️ and you are welcome and I am sorry for adding to your TBR haha I know the struggle
I'm happy RUclips brought me to your channel. You have some very good choices here that I can't wait to add to my own classics tbr. I'm subscribing!
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy all the books you end up adding to your tbr!
So excited I found your channel! I am always on the lookout for classics to add to my TBR. Love religious themes too. Nice to meet ya! 👋
Hello 👋🏽 thank you for stopping by. And we love a growing tbr pile haha
this is a great haul - i can't wait to hear you get on w/ these books!!
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is an absolute masterpiece, but fair warning it is also absolutely excruciating. The main reason is because the narrator keeps getting so distracted from the story he's trying to tell that he gets lost in countless digressions and endless wheels within wheels, and as a result some people love it and some people absolutely hate it. The whole thing is just one giant leg-pull on the audience, like the longest practical joke ever written. The jokes still make me laugh more than 250 years on so I hope you'll find stuff to enjoy, but considering that the theme running through the book is that life is so chaotic and amorphic that you can never get it to fit any shape, and that it acts as a commentary on man's inability to communicate with other human beings, it's rather fitting that Tristram never gets round to actually writing the story.
Also, really lovely vid!
Oh my goodness! I freaking love this mini review so much 🤩 it literally makes me want to pick the book up rn! I hope I fall on the side of loving it but I guess we will see. And thank you for watching!
@@mckenziekate Hahaha awwh thank you 😊 that's really kind. There aren't many novels about how life is too rich/complex to be captured by any kind of art, and I feel like if you know in advance that it has no story, then it's less of a kick in the teeth when you pick it up and find that it has little of the life and basically none of the opinions of the main character.
I'm so glad to have found you. I love your passion for classics. I would love to see your reviews on classics.
Oh wow thank you so much! And reviews to come in the future haha
Very much enjoyed seeing your book haul and the bookshelves behind you; really loved the implication that you have other bookshelves!
You have a great collection of books. My favorite book of all time is The Brother's Karamazov because each brother has it's own point of view in life, I love the discussions between Ivan and Aliosha about the existence of God. It has a great story arc as well. Russian Literature in the 19th Century was really deep. :)
I still need to read that one! So many books, so little time!
If we live to be a hundred we and read everyday yes, it would not cover a billionth percent of one percent of the books in an average sized town library !
Sad that lifespan is so short; even sadder that some of us waste our time in mundane things when we love books !
Looks like my TBR got even longer but I’m not complaining ☺️🙌🏻
Oh my gosh, literally me every day
Indeed !😊
INCREDIBLE haul! If you don't mind me asking, where did you purchase these? My dream is to find a bookstore that only sells classics. 😆🥰😍
I ordered a lot of these off book depository when they were still open! But Barnes and noble carries some penguin black spines and Oxford classics!
Fantastic haul! Of Mice and Men is one of my favourites! And congrats on the growth, your channel is awesome!
Thank you so much! And I have since read Of Mice and Men and absolutely loved it! I must have just started with the wrong works of Steinbeck
@@mckenziekate I’m glad you enjoyed it! The ending hit me so hard! It’s the only Steinbeck I’ve read but my friend Baron from Your Brain on Books highly recommends East of Eden.
@@WordsinTime yes, the ending hit me as well.. and I’ll have to pick that one up next!
i’ve been watching so many videos on classics lately and i’m so glad yours showed up on my suggested!!! so many good recommendations, many i have heard and many i have not, absolutely love it! there’s nothing as wonderful as getting way too many books. i just recently began my classics journey this year, and i’m already so overwhelmed with how many of them i want to read. i’m actually currently reading Milton’s Paradise Lost and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (btw, Ovid was Roman, not Greek! I thought he was Greek for years though tbf), and some short stories by Willa Cather (i don’t know if she’s considered classic but she’s one of my favorites and deserves to be read). I loved this video and i’m excited to watch more of them !!!
Ahh thank you so much for the correction! I did know that I just think sometimes when you get excited random stuff comes out of my mouth lmao 😂 it is SO overwhelming how many classics there are and I always want to read them all! You will have to let me know if you read any more of Cather’s works or any of her novels! I haven’t read her yet and am interested!
@@mckenziekate omg I feel you for sure, you should totally read Cather's My Antonia!!! It's absolutely stunning, one of my favorite books, Cather is so unique I adore her!!
@@emmajane4291 I agree…I read My Antonia is high school and was quite taken with it.
@@amyz673 Cather has such a way with words when she writes about women it’s just…. chefs kiss
Love this video - I’m ready for a classics revival!
revolutionary road is my favourite book & movie of all time :') i also read the book first
I am now even more excited to pick it up! Haha have you read anything else by Yates?
Came across this video on my recommended page and what can I say, where the heck have I been 😭. I don’t come across made booktubers who love books that explore religion/theology and nature so hearing that you do is amazing! Will definitely be adding some of the books you mentioned on to my growing tbr!
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Loved it ! I love classics as well so I added many new books to my TBR. I also love Penguin and Vintage Editions 🎉 I have yet to read Yates and I almost ordered the three books 😅 I love Middllemarch and plan to read her again. And the Russian authors 😊 this video was awesome thanks !
Thanks, great video - I've added lots of titles to my TBR list! One for you - if you haven't yet 'got' John Steinbeck, I recommend East of Eden. It's his masterpiece, one to be read and re-read.
So many people have been saying East of Eden! I will for sure be picking it up, thank you!
You are the BEST! You are so fun/interesting/cool. Thank you for your content queen! Love your energy, subscribing immediately.
Lol I love YOU queen 👸🏼👸🏼 😘
Try east of Eden by Steinbeck !!!!
I honestly feel like I should have started there, I think I am going to try an audio version of East of Eden next month.
@@mckenziekate yes please don’t give up on him! Grapes of wrath might not be the one to save your opinion of him, but east of Eden will (it changed my mind about him) ! Esp if you like novels touching upon religion (which I’m not particularly keen to but he did it so well ) and highlights the salinas valley of California beautifully. It might be longer.. but it’ll go by fast ! (And that’s coming from a slow reader!)
Im glad I found your channel, actually feel we are alike in reading tastes/styles and approaches ! (Love G. Eliot as well)
@@jennyyeh4730 I am so glad to find someone who shares similar reading tastes! That is always such a joy ⭐️ and I will pick up East of Edwin I promise!
Do you have a Goodreads or StoryGraph we could follow? I’m so interested in what you’re reading now and what you’ve already read 💕
I should start linking my Goodreads! Thank you for pointing that out to me haha
I am new here! I have recently start reading classics, but because of Emma! ahhaha since its my second language, I find it a bit hard to brisk through and really have to take my time in it.
I am so impressed haha I find classics to be a bit difficult at times and English is my first language. You are amazing!
The way you talk about these books!! Your descriptions/explanations, inputs of your thoughts and/or additional, interesting facts made it feel so, like, personal 🥲??
Idk, but it just really makes me want to purchase every single one.
Oh my goodness haha thank you!
what a delightful and unique haul!
one of my favorite videos in booktube
Omg haha how kind of you to say!
Grapes of Wrath was boring lol. But East of Eden is one of my favorite books ever. It is truly a work of art. Also, I read the introduction after I read the book. I feel like it is better that way lol. I want to go in blind and just enjoy the experience. Vintage has the BEST covers.
I just picked up a copy of East of Eden Last week! Everyone has said it’s much better than Grapes of Wrath haha
And I will for sure read the introduction after reading the book! Haha
I loved The Grapes of Wrath but got bored stuff when Tom and S Al had to fix the vehicle all the time, the l ing description of A has to go below B but watch out invade C drops yes 😂 the flood near the end was boring and the End was disgusting.
However, East of Eden awaits !
My TBR list has really increased beyond any possibility of it being completed, mostly because of brickbooks (I call any book over 800 pages a brickbook) !
Alas, I have now added even more books by Willie Collins and some will require me to use a microscope 😂😂
Btw: Subscribed.
PS: UT is causing a lot of typos....sorry.
I have so many of those! Great choices.
The feeling of getting a beautiful pile of books is really unparalleled.
Currently reading Shirley. Love ❤
I recently got Guy de Maupassant’s “Like Death”. I am so excited for it.
I honestly feel that Russian classics delve so deeply into the psychological make up of human beings, it is almost claustrophobic in the best of ways.
Great haul. Happy Victober and happy reading. ☕️
Ahhh thank you so much! I am SO excited to read Shirley!! It is on my Victober tbr ⭐️
If you read “Like Death” please message me and let me know your thoughts! I’ll try to read it around the same time...
It is SO fascinating to see/feel the cohesive vibes of the literature of any given country.
Do you have a favorite Russian novel?
I hope your evening/day is going beautifully!
@@mckenziekate Anna Karenina is my favorite novel of all time. i reread it every single year 🤗 I honestly learn something new about myself with each reading.
I was forever changed by Crime and Punishment. I'll be reading The Idiot this winter season... wondering how I'll feel, but I can depend on Dostoyevsky to plunge me into despair. Karolina Pavlova is wonderful and rarely mentioned.
You just can't go wrong with either Puskin, Turgenev, Chekhov, or Gogol. Happy reading! 📕
Oh and yes we can certainly do a loose buddy read of sorts of Like Death!
@@KindleAndCoffeeCups Anna Karenina is one of the greatest novels ever for sure! And I NEED to just finally jump into Dostoyevsky, I keep putting it off bc I am nervous/intimidated lol so stupid, I just need to push through. And maybe after I read Turgenev I will give Gogol a try. And yay! Looking forward to it. Do you have an Instagram?
@@mckenziekate Hey I replied and have no idea how/why it got deleted. I abandoned my Instagram, but always say I'm going back. It's (at) coffeeandcopyrights . Hopefully they won't delete this comment again. Ughhhh it's 1984 yall.
@@KindleAndCoffeeCups lol it really is 1984 😂🥲 that has happened to me many times before (comments getting deleted)
And ok yay I will go follow you there!
As a matter of curiosity, are you a quick reader ?
The average speed of reading is supposedly 100 pages per hour , but to be honest I read half that speed unless the books relate to my profession: medicine !
Good luck from an avid reader from GB.
Hello! I would NOT call myself a fast reader at all! I did not know that that was the average pace and I am horrified to be quite frank, lol.
I probably read 50 pages per hour??? Maybe?? I’m not sure. I usually read fantasy or romance the fastest as the language is usually more straightforward
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Buying books and reading them are two different hobbies 😂The Nibelungenlied is a medieval banger, more people getting killed than in Game of Thrones haha.
Since you wanna give Steinbeck another chance and you enjoy religious themes, you might enjoy East of Eden.
The Sorrows of Young Werther is great, you might like Faust by Goethe as well. Since it's all in verse I'm not sure how good the translation is though.
Some more recommendations since you enjoy German literature:
Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Physicists (a short play)
Michael Ende - Momo (a beautiful children's book)
Max Frisch - Homo Faber
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
Siegfried Lenz - The German Lesson
Benedict Wells - The End of Loneliness (contemporary)
Markus Werner - On the Edge (contemporary, Swiss)
Edit: Since I mentioned it for Werner, Dürrenmatt and Frisch were Swiss as well of course haha.
Oh my! I already have a few of your German Lit recommendations on my shelves but will be keeping your list near me next time I go out and haul a bunch of books ⭐️ haha
Thank you so much for the recommendations!
Will second the east of Eden recommendation. Have read it twice and it’s on my all time favourite books list!
4 more German recommendations:
Stefan Zweig: Chess
ETA Hoffmann: The Sandman
Otfried Preussler: Krabat. The legend of the Satanic Mill
Heinrich Böll: The lost honour of Katharina Blum
Already mentioned: Hesse’s Steppenwolf is so good !!!
@@SabineThinkerbellum thank you so much for the recommendations! 😍
The Waves by Virginia Woolf is my favourite book of all time (by my favourite writer).
I can’t wait to read it!
Fantastic books...
Yes..... Remains Of The Day....
The movie is wonderful too...
I have ordered Ethan Frome... plus the Icelandic Sagas...
Lol I am embarrassed that I did not know Remains of The Day was a movie! I will have to read it and watch it in the same week ☀️
I hope we both enjoy Ethan Frome !! Haha
The movie was rather boring e end though it started Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson !
Well, to each....😊
For Steinbeck, you should read “East of Eden.” My grandma recommended this book to me. I said what’s it about? She shrugged and said It’s just a story about a family. I said Ok? She said Oprah recommended it.
Like you said, there’s some Biblical symbology there. Most of the symbology went over my head, but it hit me on a subconscious level. The story was interesting to me and it’s about the ebbs and flows of life. I recommend.
Yes I have this one on my shelves! I hope to get to it soon!
Definitely had my good reads open as I watch 😂 great selection. At the moment I am reading war and peace and it’s been a good read so far
So glad you are loving war and peace !
If you like Thoreau, you’ll love Wendell Berry! Have you heard of him?
The name sounds familiar but nothing specific rings a bell!
The Lady of the Camellias is written by Alexander Dumas junior. You should read the count of Monte Cristo, it is an adventure. I love these editions, except the vintage red spines, I find them ugly.
Haha I was informed about The Lady of the Camellias 🤦🏼♀️ thank you so much for informing me as well! And that is very fair to not love certain editions ⭐️
Excellent haul! Were you able to get to Of Mice and Men? If so, how did you end up liking it? I'd honestly had a hard time getting into his longer works in the past, but I've always enjoyed his novellas and short works. I hope you like The Remains of the Day! It's my favorite Ishiguro, even though I know it's not as trendy as some of his others. Also, thanks for bringing up the Eliot short stories! I don't think I've ever read them, so I'll definitely be adding them to my tbr list.
Yes I did get to Of Mice and Men and it was a favorite read of last year! I’m honestly hoping to love the rest of the Steinbeck that I read and that the first two were just flukes haha.
I haven’t gotten to Remains of the day yet but hopefully soon! And yay! I’m glad i mentioned something that wasn’t previously on your radar 🎉
I hope you’re having a beautiful day!
The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite book of all time so if you like Dumas pleeeaase pick it up! Also I read Steinbeck’s East of Eden and LOVED it. So I recommend that for him.
I will absolutely be reading The Count of Monte Cristo at some point in my life (hopefully soon!) and I have since making this video read of mice and men and LOVED it, which was a shock to me, so I will for sure be picking up East of Eden ✨
@@mckenziekate I didn’t enjoy Of Mice And Men, but it was because it was forced reading in high school so it wasn’t something I was in the mood to read at the time lol. But I still think East of Eden was way better looking back at my memories of Mice And Men. And i’m excited for you to read Count Of Monte Cristo! Heads up the beginning is slow and political so a little dry but if you push through to a certain point, it suddenly gets AMAZING.
@@littlelemoncurd6191 good to know about Monte Christo! I always appreciate when people preface certain novels by saying the start is slow, I find it to be entirely helpful when I start reading, so thank you!
And omg that is totally fair about required reading. The second someone says I have to do something my brain immediately rejects it lol
@@mckenziekate lol yes exactly. If you tell me I HAVE to read a book i’m gonna hate it XD. And yea I find it helpful too because its good to know it doesnt STAY slow or dry.
The Great Courses has a couple of wonderful lectures on Augustine and the City of God as part of their series "The Early Middle Ages" with professor Philip Daileader.
Nibelungenlied is pronounced Nay-Bil- ungen-lied. Studying it for my German class in Medieval German and Modern German and it is quite interesting. Bit slow in the beginning tho.
Haha! Thank you SO much for teaching me how to pronounce the title !
Actually, it's pronounced, Nee-bell-ungen-lied.
@Joyce D youre absolutely right, it is lied as Song so "leed" in pronunciation:-)
The leopard is an amazing book. My fave Italian writer is Dino Buzzati.
Yes! I have read the Tartar Steppe! What else do you think people need to read by Buzzati and why?
Sixty stories are great short stories that cover surrealism, fantasy, horror, magical realism... Buzzati is basically the Italian Borges! Unfortunately I think Il Colombre isn’t translated into English 🤔 A love affair is a different kind of work, erotic and melancholic set in 60s Italy/political climates etc. I also love his children’s novel The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily. An interesting take on animals behaving like men in the worst way, think about a child’s version of Animal Farm?!
@@antonellabassi3466 oh my gosh... a children’s version of animal farm sounds AMAZING and A Love Affair sounds kind of up my alley. I will have to look into the short stories ⭐️ thank you for sharing your thoughts!
This is really enjoyable, i love it!
I noticed that i have a soft spot for German writers too, Kerstin Gier, Michael Ende, Cornelia Funke, i wholeheartedly recommend. Of Funke, if you give "Mirrorworld" series a chance, it's addictive! I went as far as pleading with the author to not kill my favourite character, as she was working on the sequel 🙈 The series is somewhat connected with "Inkheart" if you watched the movie.. :)
I will absolutely have to check out the Mirrorwood series! Thank you for sharing your thoughts ⭐️
@@mckenziekate yup, she also uses a whole bunch of legends from around the world in her series 😊
I also thank you for your reviews and all, really cool content, subscribed! 👍
@@emipopescu3257 oh my gosh thank you so much! ⭐️
You are so likeable and interesting, great video! Subscribed :)
Omg, thank you so much!
Dr Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Goal are both great and so sad.
Read every word Oscar Wilde ever wrote and I can recite TBoRG by heart......love it so much.
lol I’ve just recently heard a former-studytuber-who-shall-remain-nameless pronounce Goethe as ”Goath”, I assure you you’re doing just fine 😅 Also thank you algorithm for bringing me here, this was a very enjoyable video and I definitely clicked the follow button! Also added some more books to my tbr AND looked up Open University courses on literature 👀
Haha thank you! I am horrible at pronouncing names and I am ashamed tbh
Glad you enjoyed the video and I could be the reason you added more titles to your tbr
Where did you buy the Penguin classics books from? I love those editions, so I'm always interested to know where people buy them from
I either buy them from Amazon, Barnes and noble, or local used bookstores!
I read netochka nezvanova by dostoevsky which was unfinished because he was sentenced to death and he never finished it when he came back bc he lost interest. It is ~ 150 pages but it is SOOOO GOOD even as unfinished
I will have to check this out as I have never heard of it! 🌟
i personally hated "The Waves" by Virginia Woolf, and she's one of my all time favourite authors :(
Oh no! Haha well I hope I love it lol I am sorry you did not 😢 what is your favorite of hers?
I found Mrs. Dalloway an utter note so avoided The Waves 😂😂
I have this same disorder!
Good.
The h in Werther is actually silent and the second er is pronounced kind of like an a😇
Oh my gosh! Thank you for telling me!
@@mckenziekate you're welcome 🤗
You should read One Piece.
Nailed it
Are you being given these books or have you actually bought them yourself ?
Please do not misconstrue my question because I would hate it if you thought I was rude in asking.
This video got me to spend way too money just now.
Lol I’m sorry and you’re welcome
You said Emma
Tristram is the most experimental novel ever written and has moments of genius. However, it's 650 pages of plotlessness and often stuck in a mode of rather distant and tiresome ribaldry. To maximize your enjoyment of the novel, become comfortable with skimming and scanning.
Good to know! Haha thank you 🙏🏼
Dostoevsky ruined literature for me because everything else I read afterwards felt dry in comparison. His earlier works aren't that great but the novels he wrote after exile (Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons/Devils/The Possessed & The Brothers Karamazov) are incalculably great. In my opinion, Dostoevsky is perhaps the greatest novelist to have ever lived (with the possible exception of Tolstoy).
I am a huge lover of Tolstoy so I entirely agree with you there. And I don’t know if your praise of Dostoyevsky, claiming he made all other literature feel dry in comparison, excites me or terrifies me haha! I will keep your words in mind however while I am reading his earlier short fiction.
@@mckenziekate It’ll excite and terrify you at the same time haha. Tolstoy is more of a sociologist while Dostoevsky really delves into the human psyche so that’s why I prefer him over Tolstoy. But that obviously doesn’t discredit Tolstoy is any way because he’s a great author too :)
@@hasikakankanithantri8857 I love your thoughts! I will obviously update when I read Dostoyevsky, and I would love to hear more of your thoughts then as well!
Dostoevsky was superior to Tolstoy in my opinion. Loved all his books,every single one.
However, never finish Tolstoy's War and Peace and very unlikely to ! However,I shall attempt "Anna Karenina" ( it is in my TBR for 2024).
Imagine a world where White Women were proud to be European. Hmm. Seems impossible. 🙋🏻♂️
19th century french is not that hard to read actually. I would be surprised if the translation doesn't flow easily.
Jesus Christ is the answer to life, you’re welcome
girl you did not just pronounce Goethe's name like that😭
Oh no! Haha I was just saying it the way I have heard it! Educate me please!
@@mckenziekate something lile Guh-teh or geh-teh!
@@kesy3782 beautiful! Haha thank you so much 🙏🏼
Her pronunciation is absolutely an acceptable version.
@@chamilton4577 im german (like goethe) and no its not
Ah! your birth month explains your sunny personality quite well! The enthusiasm to read worldly literatures; to be enraptured by them; your liveliness. Your resolve to finish the reading journey till you're exhausted to a white dwarf star. Tolkien was a staunch Catholic. If you see uncanny similarities to Genesis in The Silmarillion 💡, it becomes self-explanatory.And Vintage books are lovely, creatures aren't they? I've noticed myself, hmmm. Let's be honest McKenzie. Some of dem classic books are themselves big asses: Augustine's "City of God." "The Count of Monte Cristo." "The Tale of Genji." Just sayin🤣
@@joelharris4399 haha! Omg yes so many of the classics are big ass books haha
And I’ve actually read the Silmarillian! And yes it felt SUPER Old Testament very book of genesis.
thank you for your kind words as always! I hope you are having a great day!
@@mckenziekate I am happy to report I am having a good day😎. I enjoy your videos. You do have one hell of an appetite! I don't know you do it 😆
@@joelharris4399 lol I have a book hoarding problem haha
@@mckenziekate You seem to be managing quite well 🙂 I'm impressed👍 I don't get the impression you feel burdened by it.
Ahahahahahahahahah.
hi! i would like to ask all you book lovers!! why do you not talk about the most sold book on the earth, the bible, why are people so afraid of the Holy Bible????
I am not scared of the Bible....read it 3 times and co time to read the NT.
It is unfortunate that many youngsters and adults are indoctrinated into reading the Koran with the excuse that Christianity was forced into peoples brains via imperialism. Well,if you are told that then you are being indoctrinated yet again , for want of a better example.
Nice nice nice - you are very entertaining- and NOT pretentious. The words you choose leads me to think you are a writer.
Ahh thank you! And yes, I love writing! I believe a lot of readers do haha
You need to learn how to pronounce names.
Yes I do
She is one of the best at names I have seen on book tube. Far above the average. You should hear how most book tubers butcher names.