Why I love re-reading! 📖✨ Re-read book tag aka my favourite classics | Claire Fenby
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Is 20 too many times to read Mrs Dalloway?... Asking for a friend 📚 Re-read book tag featuring the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen! Do you enjoy re-reading?
Books mentioned:
Wuthering Heights
Mrs Dalloway
Northanger Abbey
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Loved this! It's encouraging to hear that you grew into loving Mrs. Dalloway. I read it this year and didn't love it but I'd like to reread it in the future. I also go back to books I loved from childhood every few years just to check in. Reading old favorites is like revisiting a friend but also like revisiting a previous version of yourself.
Yes, after I first read MD I couldn’t stop thinking about it - a sign we had unfinished business. I love that like revisiting a friend/revisiting an old version of you. A lovely way to see it.
The books I have re-read are War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Remembrance of Things Past, Lolita, The Great Gatsby, To The Lighthouse, The Secret History, Asta's Book, French Lieutenant's Woman, The idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Handmaid's Tale, Underworld, Libra, White Noise, It, Pinkerton's Sister. I hope to re-read more Virginia Woolf and Middlemarch this year. I have tried reading Finnegans Wake twice but I just can't finish it.
I have also re-read Umberto Eco's books The Name of the Rose, Foulcault's Pendulum, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana and The Prague Cemetery and George Perec's Life: A user's Manual as well as the Nicolas and the Gang books by Goscinny Little Women and Alice Adventures'in Wonderland.
Jane Eyre is my favourite! This was a great video! I love rereading and picking up things I may have overlooked
My most re-read book is 'Rebecca,' closely followed by 'The Bell Jar'. Other than academic purposes, I re-read books that I love, that bring me comfort. I want to give a second chance to certain books because everyone other than me seems to love them (ahem! Howard's End) but I doubt if I will ever gather up the motivation to do so.
Nah only re-read books because they speak to you - don't listen to people like me ahaha
I think I reread a lot to see if I still like it or for comfort and missing it too. So similar reasons to you! I sometimes do snippets of rereading too to enjoy specific scenes. And I find that magical as well. I really need to read mrs dalloway! I read Jane Eyre when I was 12 and it's coming up on a decade since I read it too D: And I need to reread it at some point. Northanger Abbey was the last Austen I read, actually this year, and it was good. But there are different ways to read it and I like that.
This year, I delved into classics and re-read a lot of books, not because they were my favourites but because I've read them decades ago and wanted to find out if I still, at least, liked them. My only disappointment was Madame Bovary ! On the other hand, I've been re-reading favourite authors of mine recently because like you said, it's like visiting old friends : I started with Agatha Christie, Daphne du Maurier, the wonderful Brontës and Conan Doyle. I love Wuthering heights, re -read it this year and adored it, but my favourite of all times, which I've read (only !) 9 times is Jane Eyre. I always find something new to love each time I read it and I'll be re-reading it for the 10th time next month for my Brontë project. I'm a bit nervous too, but I think I have no reason to be. Happy re-reading, I'll definitely take a look at Mrs Dalloway ;)
I basically never re-read (apart from things I did for my studies) because I always feel like I'm missing out on all those other books out there haha (I do however in my mind plan to re-read "countless times "all my favourite books in the future ;D ) I feel like I would really like to re-read Woolf's To The Lighthouse because I read it when I was too young I think and I really didn't get on with it.
The book I reread the most was 1984. And it is definetely in my top 10. I always enjoy to read again my favourite books because I always find different aspects and meanings in them.
Interesting! I'm not a fan of 1984 but maybe that means I need to re-read it ahaha
My most reread books are the Jeeves and Wooster books by Wodehouse. They are my comfort and joy. I read at least one of them each year.
I haven't read any! Which one would you recommend? I'm guessing its best to start from the beginning?
@@Claire_Fenby I didn't, but later I went back and read them in order. You pick up on little tidbits from previous stories when you read in order. I hope you enjoy.
I could listen to you talk for hours on end in all honesty. Thanks so much for this cozy video. I think I personally find it the best feeling in the world when you read a book you've never read before and realizing while reading it's going to be your yearly re-read for the rest of your life (I had this with the picture of dorian gray)
Thank you so much! I haven't actually read The Picture of Dorian Gray 😅
@@Claire_Fenby ohh i highly recommend it. i was putting it off for years and i only picked it up this year, and i finally get the hype for it
I had to read Mrs Dalloway for a seminar on Modernism and I didn't think it was all that special at first, but the more we talked about it in class and the more we resisted certain parts of the book the more I felt myself falling in love with it. I've written two papers on it and every time someone mentions it I feel like I'm right back inside of the novel, walking in a London park, picking out flowers for a party and looking at an airplane in the sky. Even just thinking about it makes me emotional, it's just so wonderful.
i felt the same way abour rereading jane eyre as you, but i reread it this yr and continued to love it a lot, so i feel pretty sure you will too once you get to it!!
I love rereading. I reread a lot by audiobook, and if I don’t like the audiobook I reread the hard copy. I’d like to reread Rebecca, Circe, and The Bell Jar. I’m also way overdue for a reread of Wuthering Heights. It’s been way too long. My most reread books are Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Lord of the Rings, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, anything by Agatha Christie or Wodehouse, and most of David Eddings. By the way, it shouldn’t be troubling. You like what you like. I tend to not enjoy modern novels enough to reread many of them. 😊
I always enjoy this tag because it’s so interesting to learning people reread habits! My most reread books is The Handmaid’s Tale, I’ve read it every year since I was 16 and I always find something new with each read. Thanks for adding your thoughts on this, great video!
I never got on with The Handmaid's Tale so I think I need to re-read now!
I re read my favorites too ♡
My re reads this year are Marguerite Duras (L'amant or really anything she wrote because all is pure gold) and Milan Kundera's The unbearable lightness of being.
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I don't reread almost ever. But when I choose to go back to a book it is for sure a favourite.
I usually reread Life of Pi and The Joy Luck Club once a year!
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Will you please do a video series dissecting Virginia Woolf's works, one book at a time? I'd be very interested in watching that.
To be honest I would find that quite boring/stressful to film as it would be A LOT of work and I haven’t studied Woolf for nearly 5 years! I’ll leave it to the experts and literary critics who specialise in her.
So far the only book I've ever re-read for pleasure, as opposed to for my masters, has been Legendborn by Tracy Deonn because it's just THAT goooodddd 🥰🥰🥰
My most reread book is The Beast in the Jungle, by Henry James, and it is my favourite book.
My most reread books are Rebecca, Atonement, Bleak House, The Dark Half, A Fatal Inversion, The Shellseekers and everything by Kate Morton....there is something very comforting about rereading
Love Atonement - definitely due a re-read!
I just got Mrs Dalloway for Christmas!
Wonderful! I hope you enjoy it - let me know what you think 💕
Itd be nice if you could quote a few favorite passages from MD, WH and maybe JE and make some comments. Thanks.
Sorry but I’m not a literary analysis channel so won’t do specific breakdowns. I do have quite a few videos on MD on my channel already though!
I never reread books anymore. When I was a child/ teenager I did but now I never do because I don’t feel like I have enough time. There is so much I want to read and feel is urgent for me to have read, so many new things or new to me things that I haven’t read yet. So even though there are books that I yearn to reread it feels like a waste of my reading time because I could be reading something new and there’s not enough time to read them all once anyway! I’m such a completionist about everything that I find returning makes me feel guilty
Oh god I feel you. The re-reading guilt is real for me too.
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I am notorious for never re-reading anything. Once I’m done, it’s over. The story has been read and I wish it to another home. Wish I did re-read as I’d love to see if my views have changed (oh, believe me they have over time!)
So final Kieran! I love it.
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20 times Mrs Dalloway is not enough! I am currently doing my Master of Letters at St Andrews, Modern and Contemporary, and I wrote about Septimus Smith for one of my essays this semester. It was a treat. Shell shock and Bergsonian time in looking at the depiction of his suicide as a response to the crisis of representation Woolf wrote about in Modern fiction and Character in fiction.
Wonderful! I miss my MA and essay writing. My dissertation was also on Septimus but focusing on reproductive futurism. Feels like a lifetime ago!
Claire, Do you read P.G.Wodehouse?
Hi Claire! You often come back to Mrs Dalloway, which I understand is your favorite book. I read two works by Virginia Woolf for the first time this summer. I loved Mrs Dalloway, which is in every aspect a masterpiece, but I enjoyed To the Lighthouse a bit more. There are two review videos on my channel, if you are interested. I am very curious to hear what do you think about To the Lighthouse?
To the Lighthouse is one of my favourite books too - I think equal with Mrs Dalloway. I just talk about MD more because I read it first and I love London literature 😂 My BA dissertation featured them both & The Waves so I’ve read them all about as many times.
You should make a video on the Lighthouse some time. I would love to hear your thoughts on it. And yes, there is no better London portrait than in MD. I am also totally in love with the capital of the world ❤️🇬🇧.
@@darioa1345 To be honest it’s been 5 years since I studied and read it so I’m not really sure I have enough to say to make a full video on it
Yeah, I know the feeling. I want to make so many videos about great books, but they do require a re-read in order to be reviewed properly.
I could re-read Tristram Shandy over and over and never get bored! Not only because I'm too stupid to understand it, but because it's so funny, unconventional and amazing novel. I also love re-reading The French Lieutenant's Woman by Fowles, Herzog by Bellow, Ulysses... Almost all modern classics are worth re-reading, and for high postmodern novels it's a must!
Guess who said this: “... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation. When we look at a painting we do not have to move our eyes in a special way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting. In reading a book, we must have time to acquaint ourselves with it. We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting. However, let us not confuse the physical eye, that monstrous achievement of evolution, with the mind, and even more monstrous achievement. A book, no matter what it is - a work of fiction or a work of science (the boundary line between the two is not as clear as is generally believed) - a book of fiction appeals first of all to the mind. The mind, the brain, the top of the tingling spine, is or should be, the only instrument used upon a book."
I also love rereading Sterne & Fowles! Great choices.
@@Claire_Fenby Thanks! : ) Oh, I forgot to say that I've read Mrs. Dalloway only once but I have a feeling that I've read it at least three times. Here is why: first of all, I took some time for close reading, and right after that I've read The Hours by Michael Cunningham, and then I went to the cinema and watched the movie. During that month I thought so much about that novel that I still don’t feel the need to read it again.
There is one reference in “The French Lieutenant's Woman” about Jane Austen’s “Persuasion”. So I thought it's probably nothing important but let's give it a try. Oh boy, how wrong I was! I just love how Fowles absorbs all literary tradition and especially Victorian novel.
6:50 virginia woolf ❤ btw I started reading Agatha Cristi and there were none
I enjoyed that book so much. I really want to know your views. Agatha Christie is such a classic author! Love her
@@adrikamondal5186 Just don’t look at the original title and it’s all fine 🤦♀️
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I am sorry, but I couldn't understand what you meant.
@@adrikamondal5186 I meant the original title of the Agatha Christie book