What a fab list! I love the way you’ve planned it out. I’d love to join you for Ethan Frome in June if you’re still accepting buddy readers 🤩 Things Fall Apart is awesome!
Good to know. I felt that way about Vanity Fair when I first read it. Though, strangely, the reread a decade later took me forever 😅. I'm interested to see how I get on with the Count. Thanks
Hi, I am a new subscriber to your channel and would like to join you in a read-along when you do Tale of Genji. I have tried to start it about 4 times now and it keeps getting 'set aside' and I do not want that to happen again. Perhaps if I have a friend to read with I can actually manage it. Are you planning on doing it on Voxer ? (I am already there). I have read most of the other ones that are on your list. May I recommend 3 Musketeers as another of Duma's books? I laid down to start it and the next time I looked up it over finished!! What a fabulous fabulous book !!
Hi Lee, I'd be up for a buddyread on Voxer; that's a great idea. I'll check whether others would like to join us. I think, given its length, it might appeal to people doing the "March of the Mammoths." I have an ebook format of the penguin edition translated by Royall Tyler. Is that what you have? It's ok if you have another edition, but if yours differs, could you let me know which edition you have and the chapter/page breakdown. I'm on voxer as: pageturnerswithkatja
This is a wonderful choice of books! I look forward to following you on this. I’ve just ordered me a copy of _Max_ because I can recall vividly looking over it in a bookshop and setting it aside. It’s right in my mood for now. 😂
My lesser known (?) suggestion: THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY there.’ The immortal first line to L. P. Hartley’s THE GO-BETWEEN
Great list of books! I so enjoy planning what I want to read next year. If I could just stick with it 🤞I did not like Things Fall Apart at all but I’m an emotional reader. In saying that I hope you enjoy reading everything 😊
If I can stay as strict with myself next year as the last few months recently, I should stick to all the plans. I say all because I've chosen my books next year for other genres too 😆. I'll try not to overdo it. I think if I commit to 36 titles, I still have enough freedom to choose other books yo read too. I know Things Fall Apart is hard-hitting. I've put off reading it for years, and then it's always recommended to me - I'm curious. I guess because I lived in Nigeria a few years I'm doubly curious.
Interesting list of books. I read Ethan Frome in high school and would like to reread it. I might be available for a buddy read, but I'll let you know when July is closer. I would also like to buddy read The Count of Monte Cristo, as I've not read it. However, it is likely to take me three months or more to get through a book that size at my current reading speed.
I have The Tenant of Wildfell Hall but haven't read it yet. I think it'll be good! I should also read my copies of Ethan Frome and Middlemarch too! I haven't been in the mindset to read classics as much this year. Maybe I need to set a classic a month tbr to read those on my shelf as well! I really love The Count of Monte Cristo but yes you have to be patient because it's long, LOL. I even made a character list to keep track of them while reading.
If you do a classic a month I'd love if you overlapped middlemarch with me 😅 I started it once years ago and set it aside so I suspect I'll need it to be a buddy/group read.
I could do the February and September buddy reads with you as I have both books. I would like to read the Count De Monte Christo as well, but can't remember if I have it. I want to read only books I already have next year. :)
I read some classics this year as well and I loved some of the prose so much. I enjoyed most of them as a writer more than a reader but I got so much more perspective in both aspects. Things fall apart is considered a literary gem in Nigeria. I’ve read it multiple times. Great video!
I want to read diary of a nobody but I don’t own it and my library doesn’t have it. I’ll see if I can find a copy and maybe we could do that one together? I loved Tenant. 🥰 I thought it was so much more than a feminist novel- only feminist in not being a cruel man’s doormat. I hope you love it too. I’m reading “on the Bummel” this year! 3 men was funny - most of the time😂 Great line up
I'd love that 😊. Let me know how you get on. If you have a Kindle, an option is to send the free ePub version from Project Gutenberg to your e-reader. That's good to know about 3 man and Tenant.
Three Men in a Boat and Middlemarch are both wonderful. The Count of Monte Christo is my favorite book of this year.
That sounds really positive for my reading experience next year 😊 Thanks for sharing.
What a fab list! I love the way you’ve planned it out.
I’d love to join you for Ethan Frome in June if you’re still accepting buddy readers 🤩
Things Fall Apart is awesome!
That's great, I'd love to buddy read EF with you then 😁
@@PageTurnersWithKatja perfect - I’ll add it to my spreadsheet 😁
The Count of Monte Cristo, was a great read. Since it was easy to read as well as very interesting, it was a quick read.
Good to know. I felt that way about Vanity Fair when I first read it. Though, strangely, the reread a decade later took me forever 😅. I'm interested to see how I get on with the Count. Thanks
Hi, I am a new subscriber to your channel and would like to join you in a read-along when you do Tale of Genji. I have tried to start it about 4 times now and it keeps getting 'set aside' and I do not want that to happen again. Perhaps if I have a friend to read with I can actually manage it. Are you planning on doing it on Voxer ? (I am already there). I have read most of the other ones that are on your list. May I recommend 3 Musketeers as another of Duma's books? I laid down to start it and the next time I looked up it over finished!! What a fabulous fabulous book !!
Hi Lee, I'd be up for a buddyread on Voxer; that's a great idea. I'll check whether others would like to join us. I think, given its length, it might appeal to people doing the "March of the Mammoths."
I have an ebook format of the penguin edition translated by Royall Tyler. Is that what you have? It's ok if you have another edition, but if yours differs, could you let me know which edition you have and the chapter/page breakdown.
I'm on voxer as: pageturnerswithkatja
And thanks for subscribing 😊
This is a wonderful choice of books! I look forward to following you on this. I’ve just ordered me a copy of _Max_ because I can recall vividly looking over it in a bookshop and setting it aside. It’s right in my mood for now. 😂
Thank you.
If you don't get to Max before May. I'd be up for a buddy/ group read.
This sounds like an amazing 2024 challenge :). Such a great and diverse list ❤
Thanks 😊💛
My lesser known (?) suggestion: THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY there.’ The immortal first line to L. P. Hartley’s THE GO-BETWEEN
Thank you. There are a few modern classics I've yet to discover. I'll add this to my reading list. Great reviews for it!
Great list of books! I so enjoy planning what I want to read next year. If I could just stick with it 🤞I did not like Things Fall Apart at all but I’m an emotional reader. In saying that I hope you enjoy reading everything 😊
If I can stay as strict with myself next year as the last few months recently, I should stick to all the plans. I say all because I've chosen my books next year for other genres too 😆. I'll try not to overdo it. I think if I commit to 36 titles, I still have enough freedom to choose other books yo read too.
I know Things Fall Apart is hard-hitting. I've put off reading it for years, and then it's always recommended to me - I'm curious. I guess because I lived in Nigeria a few years I'm doubly curious.
Interesting list of books. I read Ethan Frome in high school and would like to reread it. I might be available for a buddy read, but I'll let you know when July is closer. I would also like to buddy read The Count of Monte Cristo, as I've not read it. However, it is likely to take me three months or more to get through a book that size at my current reading speed.
That's great; fingers crossed for July.
Three months is sensible for TCoMC- I think Olivia from Olivia's Catastrophe took a few months too.
I have The Tenant of Wildfell Hall but haven't read it yet. I think it'll be good! I should also read my copies of Ethan Frome and Middlemarch too! I haven't been in the mindset to read classics as much this year. Maybe I need to set a classic a month tbr to read those on my shelf as well! I really love The Count of Monte Cristo but yes you have to be patient because it's long, LOL. I even made a character list to keep track of them while reading.
If you do a classic a month I'd love if you overlapped middlemarch with me 😅 I started it once years ago and set it aside so I suspect I'll need it to be a buddy/group read.
I could do the February and September buddy reads with you as I have both books. I would like to read the Count De Monte Christo as well, but can't remember if I have it. I want to read only books I already have next year. :)
That's great! I'm on voxer, IG, and discord all as "pageturnerswithkatja", let me know which platform you'd like to use.
I read some classics this year as well and I loved some of the prose so much. I enjoyed most of them as a writer more than a reader but I got so much more perspective in both aspects.
Things fall apart is considered a literary gem in Nigeria. I’ve read it multiple times. Great video!
Thanks!
Wow, I'm glad I added "Things Fall Apart" it's the only modern classic on my list 😊.
We hat a great list. There’s a few of these I haven’t heard of. I hope you enjoy everything you get to❤
Thanks Charlie 💛
"The Gadfly" by E. I. Voinich- is one of the best victorian English novels ever!
Thank you, I looked up the blurb; it sounds brilliant!
I want to read diary of a nobody but I don’t own it and my library doesn’t have it. I’ll see if I can find a copy and maybe we could do that one together?
I loved Tenant. 🥰 I thought it was so much more than a feminist novel- only feminist in not being a cruel man’s doormat. I hope you love it too.
I’m reading “on the Bummel” this year! 3 men was funny - most of the time😂
Great line up
I'd love that 😊. Let me know how you get on. If you have a Kindle, an option is to send the free ePub version from Project Gutenberg to your e-reader.
That's good to know about 3 man and Tenant.
@@PageTurnersWithKatja I’m not an e reader so I’ll let you know when I have it in my hot little hand 😁
Wow what a great list!
Thank you 😊. Are some of them your favourites or books you're also interested in reading?