Thanks for all the content you've been producing during COVID quarantine. I have really enjoyed watching your videos, in between the times that I read your book recommendations. Just finished Age of Miracles and onto Lanny!
Longbourn is a fantastic retelling from a different perspective! With all of the Austen and P&P retellings out and coming soon (The Other Bennet Sister, Miss Austen, Charlotte), I decided to reread P&P also, and so will definitely have to check out your readings.
I haven't read any of these books, but A Honeybee's Heart has Five Openings sounds like a book I'd like to encounter. I hope you discover some gems from this haul.
I'm really interested in reading Longbourne! My local bookstore is delivering to my house during lockdown 😁 loving supporting independent businesses right now. Thankyou Jen ❤️
I looooved Longbourn. It was such an incredible commentary on the working class esp in a work (P&P) that only focuses on middle to upper classes. It shows how the working class personal lives are very much affected and guided by their employers.
I have wanted to read Longbourn anyways but now I definitely think I will visit it after watching/ listening to Pride & Prejudice again with you xx Lots of interesting books which I look forward to hearing what you make of once you get to them xx ❤️
I’m trying to read off my backlist ( thanks to Katie from books and things) by matching books to prompts on readathons. #springathon #quarantinathon #asianreadathon So far this month I’ve read The Wonder by Emma Donoghue ( which was great) The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek ( which was disappointing) Currently reading All Among the Barley
i read falling angels by tracy chevalier when i was like ... 14 maybe and i loved it sm... i remember it really vividly actually, would be interested to reread it!!
I am also a Chernobyl child. My mum told that when I was born she didn't take me out for three months because she was afraid that the particles coming from Ukraine would affect my health.
@@jenvcampbell I was born at the time, severely underweight and with a heart condition that the doctors couldn't quite figure out what it was. They said that with age it would go away. But I do still have problems with my heart from time to time, and they still haven't given me a concrete diagnosis.
Hi Jen! What's the piece of music that plays at the end of all your videos? I find it really calming and cheering and would love to hear the full thing
@@jenvcampbell I haven't read "The other Bennet sister" (yet). I meant that Loungbourn is hardly telling the story of Pride and Prejudice, not even from a different perspective, but a completely different story that takes place during Pride and Prejudice. We get glimpses of Lizzy and Co, we see them in a very different light, that's true. In a way of course it IS a retelling. But I just meant to say that Loungbourn is not about Lizzy's and Darcy's story at all. At least I don't remember it to be. But it's an extremly beautiful story in it's own right. It was different from what I thought it was going to be, but I loved it.
@@LisaZoe86 The Other Bennet Sister is a completely different story, too :) I don't think I'd enjoy the same story but with added thoughts from another character; something new (but at the same time familiar) is my favourite.
Dear Jen, have a good day! Thanks for the video. You are that rare and wonderful kind of person to whom I would like to say and ask many things.Unfortunately for me and luckily for you 😊 l understand what you say but l have to use the google translator to write something intelligible and it's very boring. Stay safe, Laela from Italy.❤ 📚 🇮🇹
Jen Campbell thanks for getting back to me. Are there any group ones for beginners? By the way I absolutely love your read along with me that you did Xx
I don't think the words "saint in Swindon" will ever mean anything but St Zvlkx to me :D Which brings me to the question (and this is for everyone) - has anyone on booktube ever reviewed the Thursdsay Next series?
I read the Jane Eyre one pre-booktube, and it wasn’t my cup of tea. I’m sure lots of people have reviewed them, though, just search RUclips for individual titles and wrap ups will appear x
nature-writing or anything 'factual' mixed in with 'memoir' is literally my least favourite kind of book ever - i shan't try to recommend you fact books, at least:) To me (well i'm autistic) it's half the facts, half wrong, mixed in with a bunch of tedious navel-gazing waffle nobody's interested in. I always thought i liked fact books, because i like text books, but weirdly nobody means books about facts when they say 'nonfiction', they mean some third class of stuff. My gcse maths book is one of my favourite books. My parents prefer the history encyclopaedia, a mediaeval herbal and the VW maintenance manual. I'm trying to read a Welsh thesauraus. But there you are.
Thanks for all the content you've been producing during COVID quarantine. I have really enjoyed watching your videos, in between the times that I read your book recommendations. Just finished Age of Miracles and onto Lanny!
♥️ thanks, Megan. Enjoy Lanny! x
it’s always a pleasure to see a new video from you. hope you're doing ok😊xx
Hey Jen! Moving into a super anxious phase just now. So, rushed to booktube and here you were. So, just saying thank you 😊
Sending love xx
Longbourn is a fantastic retelling from a different perspective! With all of the Austen and P&P retellings out and coming soon (The Other Bennet Sister, Miss Austen, Charlotte), I decided to reread P&P also, and so will definitely have to check out your readings.
The Other Bennet Sister is so great :) x
Thank you for the lovely video Jen
I've only read two of Svetlana Alexievich's books but they were both stunning. (Chernobyl Prayer and Zinky Boys)
That sweet potato dish sounds so good! I love feta and when peanuts are in recipes
I haven't read any of these books, but A Honeybee's Heart has Five Openings sounds like a book I'd like to encounter. I hope you discover some gems from this haul.
I am sure you'll love Longbourn Jen! ☺️ I enjoyed it very much. So many books added to my wishlist after this video, hope you're well. x
I'm really interested in reading Longbourne! My local bookstore is delivering to my house during lockdown 😁 loving supporting independent businesses right now. Thankyou Jen ❤️
I looooved Longbourn. It was such an incredible commentary on the working class esp in a work (P&P) that only focuses on middle to upper classes. It shows how the working class personal lives are very much affected and guided by their employers.
I know only Pride and Prejudice and Longbourn, however I do want to read all of Tracy Chevalier. Stay safe lovely lady and thanks you, as always. 💖
Falling angels is one of my favourite books❤️it’s always a pleasure to read it!!!
Excellent! I look forward to falling in love with it, too.
I have wanted to read Longbourn anyways but now I definitely think I will visit it after watching/ listening to Pride & Prejudice again with you xx Lots of interesting books which I look forward to hearing what you make of once you get to them xx ❤️
Will pick up on the honeybee book right now!
I’m trying to read off my backlist ( thanks to Katie from books and things) by matching books to prompts on readathons.
#springathon
#quarantinathon
#asianreadathon
So far this month I’ve read
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue ( which was great)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek ( which was disappointing)
Currently reading
All Among the Barley
Oh Fracture sounds super interesting!
Doesn't it?
i read falling angels by tracy chevalier when i was like ... 14 maybe and i loved it sm... i remember it really vividly actually, would be interested to reread it!!
I am also a Chernobyl child. My mum told that when I was born she didn't take me out for three months because she was afraid that the particles coming from Ukraine would affect my health.
By that do you mean you were born with a disfigurement, too, or just that you were born at that time? x
@@jenvcampbell I was born at the time, severely underweight and with a heart condition that the doctors couldn't quite figure out what it was. They said that with age it would go away. But I do still have problems with my heart from time to time, and they still haven't given me a concrete diagnosis.
Hi Jen! What's the piece of music that plays at the end of all your videos? I find it really calming and cheering and would love to hear the full thing
I can’t remember the name of it but it’s from the RUclips audio library x
Longbourn is not so much a retelling as it is just set during the events in Pride and Prejudice, I would say.
I mean it in the sense that you are 'telling it' from a different perspective. Same as The Other Bennet sister. An extension of, I guess.
@@jenvcampbell I haven't read "The other Bennet sister" (yet). I meant that Loungbourn is hardly telling the story of Pride and Prejudice, not even from a different perspective, but a completely different story that takes place during Pride and Prejudice. We get glimpses of Lizzy and Co, we see them in a very different light, that's true. In a way of course it IS a retelling. But I just meant to say that Loungbourn is not about Lizzy's and Darcy's story at all. At least I don't remember it to be. But it's an extremly beautiful story in it's own right. It was different from what I thought it was going to be, but I loved it.
@@LisaZoe86 The Other Bennet Sister is a completely different story, too :) I don't think I'd enjoy the same story but with added thoughts from another character; something new (but at the same time familiar) is my favourite.
Dear Jen, have a good day! Thanks for the video. You are that rare and wonderful kind of person to whom I would like to say and ask many things.Unfortunately for me and luckily for you 😊 l understand what you say but l have to use the google translator to write something intelligible and it's very boring. Stay safe, Laela from Italy.❤ 📚 🇮🇹
After hearing so many people talk about Tracey Chevalier, I was wondering which of her books would you recommend reading first?
I read Girl with a Pearl Earring first but you could start anywhere - perhaps her latest: A Single Thread or Remarkable Creatures ☺️
@@jenvcampbell Thank you for replying. ❤️ I may have to have a payday treat this month. 😊
Enjoy!
Jen are your short story workshops suitable for someone who is a beginner? Would love to try one but worried it might be too challenging!
Yes, they are. The Set Your Pace one is particularly aimed at those who are new to short story writing, or who want to learn new techniques. x
Jen Campbell thanks for getting back to me. Are there any group ones for beginners? By the way I absolutely love your read along with me that you did Xx
@@NatashaTyrimos the Set Your Pace one is a group workshop. x
Jen Campbell thanks! I just signed up! Eeeek exciting!
I'm so glad you picked up a Honeybee's Heart! I really hope you enjoy it! x
I hope so, too :) x
I don't think the words "saint in Swindon" will ever mean anything but St Zvlkx to me :D Which brings me to the question (and this is for everyone) - has anyone on booktube ever reviewed the Thursdsay Next series?
I read the Jane Eyre one pre-booktube, and it wasn’t my cup of tea. I’m sure lots of people have reviewed them, though, just search RUclips for individual titles and wrap ups will appear x
@@jenvcampbell I'm sorry to hear you didn't care for it, but thank you for the tip, and of course all your videos. Stay awesome. :)
H-honeybees? *ears perk up*
Indeed!
What advice would you give to someone who wants to start a booktube channel
Lauren has a whole series on this: ruclips.net/p/PLSrEV86D66JbOEyDLG8nzv_LvLvpqiMGw x
Thank you for replying to this🙏🏻
nature-writing or anything 'factual' mixed in with 'memoir' is literally my least favourite kind of book ever - i shan't try to recommend you fact books, at least:) To me (well i'm autistic) it's half the facts, half wrong, mixed in with a bunch of tedious navel-gazing waffle nobody's interested in. I always thought i liked fact books, because i like text books, but weirdly nobody means books about facts when they say 'nonfiction', they mean some third class of stuff. My gcse maths book is one of my favourite books. My parents prefer the history encyclopaedia, a mediaeval herbal and the VW maintenance manual. I'm trying to read a Welsh thesauraus. But there you are.