Never trust our teenage selves! We were all idiots! 😂 The Scarlet Letter is our next book club pick along with Hester which is a modern retelling. I’m going to attempt to read them both. Another excellent thumbnail Aaron 🙌🏻
Great haul. Love the way you’re trying to justify it 😂. I’m really enjoying The Doctor’s Wife and I’m reading The Warden to go along with it. The Railway Children is fab and I also loved Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Fab video 😊
Brilliant thumbnail Aaron! I’ve been reading less and less ebooks so I feel your dilemma about having the hard copies. You’ve got some fabulous titles though and don’t worry about Adam Bede, it’s brilliant! I’m definitely not as big a fan of Daniel Deronda as other people are though 😬 Really enjoyed the Claverings, Harry gets on my nerves and apparently Trollope himself thought he was a bit too weak to be a hero but the women make it for me, as they do in some many of Trollope’ novels and of course the humor!
Thanks, I was cracking up making this thumbnail and I think the devil me might come in handy. Trollope often throws in weakness and annoying traits into his heroes doesn't he, I think it amused him. Elliot's books seem to divide people, I actually forgot I own The Mill on The Floss too, but I'm saving that for last as that is the marmite one it seems.
James Acaster is hilarious, bet he'd be great with the audio!! Loved the railway children. It's quite funny in the film though because when they're really "poor", they're in a lovely sizeable cottage in the country, with a servant if not more than one!! The devil definitely won out over the angel on the book buying, but we're all the same aren't we. I'd love to read more Gaskell.
Yeah, in the book, they still have a part-time servant, but their mum has to write for money. I would love a servant, but I also would quite like to be a butler or valet. I think I've watched too much Downton Abbey and read too many Jeeves & Wooster books because it looks fun to me.
@@AaronReadABook up at about 5am after 5/6 hours sleep and working your fingers to the bone all day!! Maybe if you were a high ranking servant. I would probably choose governess. But I'd rather be rich lol.
I’m so glad you enjoyed the Railway Children too! I haven’t picked a Victober book yet, not sure if I will but I do have a few possibilities. I want to try some Trollope eventually!
This might be a good one to start with actually, time will tell. And yep now I see why there were happy tears, it was a fairly predictable end but what everyone would want.
Hi Aaron. I do the same thing: I end up buying books that I have for free or almost free on my kindle. And I love the Penguin Classics too. I really must read Elizabeth Gaskell. (I even live in a place called Cranford!) I’m right now reading my first Mary Elizabeth Braddon. I’d love to have a glimpse of teenaged Aaron. I’m sure you were NEVER an idiot! 😉
I'm halfway through Middlemarch, and mostly enjoying it. I do feel I should try another Trollope after reading The Warden earlier this year, and have Doctor Thorne on my shelves, which I know is out of sequence in the series, but I'm hoping that won't matter too much.
Doctor Thorne can certainly be read as a standalone more than the others, it's a great book and perhaps the most straightforward book in the series. I would urge you to go back to Barchester Towers at some point though as it is a very funny book.
Thanks Aaron, it's good to know Dr Thorne is accessible and can be read as a stand alone. It's the fact that Barchester Towers is such a chunker that gives me pause (the big book fear is real) but you, and also Kelly at Books I'm Not Reading, are so enthusiastic about this series that I really would like to get to grips with it at some point.
“I had eBay open on the other page” 😂. We’ve all been there, lol. Geesh, your Victober TBR sounds fun and makes me want to redo my TBR. So many great choices. I don’t think you’re alone with The Scarlett Letter; I have definitely heard a lot of negative reviews even by Americans and I remember reading that in school. I enjoyed it as much as you could enjoy an assigned book as a teenage, but I think you’re right, I had a great teacher who really helped us throug it. I have it on my shelf to read again someday. Just curious, do you know who your most read classics author is at this point?
That's an interesting question. Jane Austen I have read the 6 novels, Lady Susan, and two unfinished ones. Trollope, this is my 9th book by him and they are chunky so probably him. Arthur Conan Doyle I have read all of the Sherlock Holmes stuff twice, and The Lost World, but a lot of that is short stories.
Buying books is never a bad decision! Well, unless it means you can't pay the bills. Although even then there's a case to be made 🤣 Only in booktube would we ever say a book is ONLY 500 pages LOL.
Wives and Daughters!?!?! Oh, Aaron. My heart breaks for you! I am thinking of having an eBay breakdown and buy a bunch of Trollope. Middlemarch is the BEST Victorian novel you’ve read?!?! Who are you and what have you done with my friend? 😂💛
I did some research and you are the only person in the known universe who doesn't like Wives and Daughters! It actually sounds a bit like Middlemarch to me so maybe you don't get on with those types of books.
@@AaronReadABook Aaron, I didn’t know that Wives and Daughters had no ending! And that milk toast heroine. Maybe I am still not old enough to appreciate Middlemarch, but life is too short to reread it, so we’ll never know! 😬😂
I also don't trust teenage me's book taste. 😂 I didnt start Jane Austen with Pride and Prejudice because i didn't want reading the rest of her books to potentially only go downhill, so i understand the dilemna with reading middlemarch first.
@@ellethinks I started with Persuasion, which I think was a good decision. I also watched the BBC adaptation of P&P before I read the book which I think gave me a better understanding of how funny she was.
You really outdid yourself with that thumbnail ! " Victorian" is not one of my favorite literary periods. I'm the opposite of you, and prefer the American 19th century. Oh, I do like a few select books here and there; from Dickens, Eliot and Hardy. I like the Brontes but to me they seem to have more of a Romantic sensibility. I enjoy Wilkie Collins and want to try Elizabeth Mary Bradden (Reading Silas Marner in school was a traumatic experience for my mother. She was very sensitive to sad books or movies.) Before you read another Hawthorne, I suggest you get a small study guide or read some background on Hawthorne's life. Americans who have to read him in school have the advantage of usually understanding the Puritan background.
@@KatJack-vl8xj Yes I've never studied beyond the founding fathers, I need to look further back. I really enjoyed Wilkie Collins, I need to revisit him.
"I don't trust teenage me, because I was an idiot"😂Many of us can relate to that...
I also don't trust me of 5 years ago either though 😂
Never trust our teenage selves! We were all idiots! 😂 The Scarlet Letter is our next book club pick along with Hester which is a modern retelling. I’m going to attempt to read them both. Another excellent thumbnail Aaron 🙌🏻
I think it will be a good one for a bookclub, it is definitely one to dig into.
Great haul. Love the way you’re trying to justify it 😂. I’m really enjoying The Doctor’s Wife and I’m reading The Warden to go along with it. The Railway Children is fab and I also loved Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Fab video 😊
@@RaynorReadsStuff Those sound interesting, I didn't know she did fantasy. Love The Warden, and it only gets better after that.
The Claverings is one of my favorite Trollope books. It’s so good!
@@artandbooks5850 Glad to hear it! Loving it so far ☺️
Brilliant thumbnail Aaron! I’ve been reading less and less ebooks so I feel your dilemma about having the hard copies. You’ve got some fabulous titles though and don’t worry about Adam Bede, it’s brilliant! I’m definitely not as big a fan of Daniel Deronda as other people are though 😬 Really enjoyed the Claverings, Harry gets on my nerves and apparently Trollope himself thought he was a bit too weak to be a hero but the women make it for me, as they do in some many of Trollope’ novels and of course the humor!
Thanks, I was cracking up making this thumbnail and I think the devil me might come in handy. Trollope often throws in weakness and annoying traits into his heroes doesn't he, I think it amused him. Elliot's books seem to divide people, I actually forgot I own The Mill on The Floss too, but I'm saving that for last as that is the marmite one it seems.
James Acaster is hilarious, bet he'd be great with the audio!!
Loved the railway children. It's quite funny in the film though because when they're really "poor", they're in a lovely sizeable cottage in the country, with a servant if not more than one!!
The devil definitely won out over the angel on the book buying, but we're all the same aren't we. I'd love to read more Gaskell.
Yeah, in the book, they still have a part-time servant, but their mum has to write for money. I would love a servant, but I also would quite like to be a butler or valet. I think I've watched too much Downton Abbey and read too many Jeeves & Wooster books because it looks fun to me.
@@AaronReadABook up at about 5am after 5/6 hours sleep and working your fingers to the bone all day!! Maybe if you were a high ranking servant. I would probably choose governess. But I'd rather be rich lol.
Wives and Daughters is amazing. Actually all the Victober books you have acquired are amazing (except for Adam Bede, but that may just be me 😅)
I'm already 100 pages into Wives and Daughters and loving it!
Plenty there to keep you out of mischief! Got Middlemarch on the tbr. Best wishes and happy reading.
@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk It took me a while to get used to her style but it's a great one!
I’m so glad you enjoyed the Railway Children too! I haven’t picked a Victober book yet, not sure if I will but I do have a few possibilities. I want to try some Trollope eventually!
This might be a good one to start with actually, time will tell. And yep now I see why there were happy tears, it was a fairly predictable end but what everyone would want.
Hi Aaron. I do the same thing: I end up buying books that I have for free or almost free on my kindle. And I love the Penguin Classics too. I really must read Elizabeth Gaskell. (I even live in a place called Cranford!) I’m right now reading my first Mary Elizabeth Braddon. I’d love to have a glimpse of teenaged Aaron. I’m sure you were NEVER an idiot! 😉
Gaskell is great and all her books are very different, you would never guess they were the same author.
@@AaronReadABook interesting. I will explore further.
Accidental book hauls. Been there. It usually happens late at night when I browse eBay with a large glass of scotch.
I'm halfway through Middlemarch, and mostly enjoying it. I do feel I should try another Trollope after reading The Warden earlier this year, and have Doctor Thorne on my shelves, which I know is out of sequence in the series, but I'm hoping that won't matter too much.
Doctor Thorne can certainly be read as a standalone more than the others, it's a great book and perhaps the most straightforward book in the series. I would urge you to go back to Barchester Towers at some point though as it is a very funny book.
Thanks Aaron, it's good to know Dr Thorne is accessible and can be read as a stand alone. It's the fact that Barchester Towers is such a chunker that gives me pause (the big book fear is real) but you, and also Kelly at Books I'm Not Reading, are so enthusiastic about this series that I really would like to get to grips with it at some point.
“I had eBay open on the other page” 😂. We’ve all been there, lol. Geesh, your Victober TBR sounds fun and makes me want to redo my TBR. So many great choices. I don’t think you’re alone with The Scarlett Letter; I have definitely heard a lot of negative reviews even by Americans and I remember reading that in school. I enjoyed it as much as you could enjoy an assigned book as a teenage, but I think you’re right, I had a great teacher who really helped us throug it. I have it on my shelf to read again someday. Just curious, do you know who your most read classics author is at this point?
That's an interesting question. Jane Austen I have read the 6 novels, Lady Susan, and two unfinished ones. Trollope, this is my 9th book by him and they are chunky so probably him. Arthur Conan Doyle I have read all of the Sherlock Holmes stuff twice, and The Lost World, but a lot of that is short stories.
I've also read Anna Karenina 3 times, and War and Peace and Ivan Ilyich once, so Tolstoy would be up there for pages read too.
@@AaronReadABook I was going to guess Trollope!
@@AaronReadABook I’m glad you seemed to have liked Anna Karenina because that’s number 1 on my Greatest Books list 🤩
Buying books is never a bad decision! Well, unless it means you can't pay the bills. Although even then there's a case to be made 🤣
Only in booktube would we ever say a book is ONLY 500 pages LOL.
I know right, this is positively brief for Trollope though.
Wives and Daughters!?!?! Oh, Aaron. My heart breaks for you! I am thinking of having an eBay breakdown and buy a bunch of Trollope. Middlemarch is the BEST Victorian novel you’ve read?!?! Who are you and what have you done with my friend? 😂💛
I did some research and you are the only person in the known universe who doesn't like Wives and Daughters! It actually sounds a bit like Middlemarch to me so maybe you don't get on with those types of books.
@@AaronReadABook Aaron, I didn’t know that Wives and Daughters had no ending! And that milk toast heroine. Maybe I am still not old enough to appreciate Middlemarch, but life is too short to reread it, so we’ll never know! 😬😂
I also don't trust teenage me's book taste. 😂 I didnt start Jane Austen with Pride and Prejudice because i didn't want reading the rest of her books to potentially only go downhill, so i understand the dilemna with reading middlemarch first.
@@ellethinks I started with Persuasion, which I think was a good decision. I also watched the BBC adaptation of P&P before I read the book which I think gave me a better understanding of how funny she was.
@@AaronReadABook I think booktube prepared me for the humor in them. 😅
I suppose the good thing is that you can now get even more things from Gutenberg…
@@GenreBooks23 I may run out of kindle space at this rate
I may have accidentally bought a load of books recently, sometimes it happens ..what can we do?
@@angiejones5918 It seems inevitable, we can't blame ourselves 😁
You really outdid yourself with that thumbnail ! " Victorian" is not one of my favorite literary periods. I'm the opposite of you, and prefer the American 19th century. Oh, I do like a few select books here and there; from Dickens, Eliot and Hardy. I like the Brontes but to me they seem to have more of a Romantic sensibility. I enjoy Wilkie Collins and want to try Elizabeth Mary Bradden
(Reading Silas Marner in school was a traumatic experience for my mother. She was very sensitive to sad books or movies.)
Before you read another Hawthorne, I suggest you get a small study guide or read some background on Hawthorne's life. Americans who have to read him in school have the advantage of usually understanding the Puritan background.
@@KatJack-vl8xj Yes I've never studied beyond the founding fathers, I need to look further back. I really enjoyed Wilkie Collins, I need to revisit him.