Your English is amazing cold or no cold! Challenging choices. The Princess and the Goblin - a childhood favourite (illustrations by Arthur Rackham) from the library! So excited to hear about your Children's Lit course next semester - my master's was in Library and Information Studies with specialisms in children's lit and local history.
Really enjoyed this video! Haven't read any but Heart Of Darkness and Mrs Dalloway remain high in my TBR. I just had a bookhaul 3 days ago and would love to share: 1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (My first Steinbeck, in a gorgeous Penguin Modern Classic edition) 2. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Acebe, again in the modern classic edition 3. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins in Collins Classics Edition. 4. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in idk what edition lmaoo but looked great 5. The Bell Jar in a beautiful black cover with red font, WILCO books edition, published in 2024. The cover of the book which I will be reading matters alot to me. I love love LOVE penguin black classics and Modern Classics editions and this quirk of mine makes me not buy books which I am dying to read just bcuz the cover looks bland/bad. I saw leaves of Grass and Heart If Darkness in the bookstore, those 2, Ive been dying to own, but didnt buy them cuz both of them looked so ugly. Help T-T. But I eventually get to those books in my preferred cover, just it takes quite alot of time, or if Im lucky, I find the cover of the book nice enough ti buy. Just like the incident with Bell Jar and Woman in White, both of these Ive encountered before but resisted buying cuz of the cover design but now when I own then, THEY LOOK FABULUOS. Feels really great tbh, anyways, Lovely video!
Such a great book haul!! I don’t care too much about covers as I get most of my books second hand, but I do love myself a good Penguin Black Classic or Modern Classic!
Quite a selection. Heart of Darkness was the inspiration behind the film 'Apocalypse Now' set during the Vietnam War and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Kurtz was played by Marlon Brando. Visually stunning and seemed to catch the madness of war. The very best of luck with James Joyce, not for me! I hope your studies are going well.
@@femsfables I watched it in Germany when I worked for the US Army. The audience had a great number of Vietnam Veterans. They all agreed it was very close to real thing. I always remember one guy who when called up picked the Navy as he thought he would be safe on a battleship 15 miles offshore. He ended up on a river gunboat ( which features in the film) being shot at from 30 yards away. Take care and enjoy your reading.
Hi @ba... my dad did two tours in Nam early in the war ('66--'67 Ia Drang era, the Hal Moore & Joseph Galloway account, We Were Soldiers Once and Young is a great read!) Definately NOT Victoberish though in The Heir of Redclyff, Yonge does send off Phillip to join the Army as a economic measure (even back then if you were young and broke joining the army was a doable option) but I'm almost done with the book and not a word of Phillip in actual combat, rather reminacent of Jane Austen's interminable troop of soldier beaus who in novel after novel never seem to do any actual fighting LOL!...come to think of it, what is the correct month for reading about imperialistic massacre on a grand scale?!?...Kurt Vonnegut did it best, his birthday is in November maybe that's the time to re-visit Slaughter House Five. Thank you for your service too by the way.
I'm not crazy about modernism... I didn't love The doctor's wife but I liked it, just thought it could have been shorter. However, the author had a good sense of humour :) Enjoy !
Marlowe’s journey to meet / find Kurtz sure seems to be the main plotline of the book! However, Marlowe was in the Congo working for a Belgian trading company which just can’t be separated from Belgium’s colonialist past. I do think people tend to forget this fact while reading the book, because so much of the focus is on Kurtz… I honestly think this is why I didn’t love the Conrad’s novel as I went into it thinking it would discuss the problems of colonialism, but instead it seemed to glance over that theme completely to focus on Kurtz…
@@femsfables Perhaps it does discuss colonialism. The characters in the story live their lives in a world they encountered or were born into. And of course trade is not much of a big deal per se. It is happening this very day etc. The leadership of most Western countries did not exactly believe in (global) classical free trade during the c.19th so that would explain a Belgian company on location in the book, not a German or British company etc. This continued into the c.20th as for example U.S.A. allowed only American shipping companies to ply the trades routes between Hawaii and the West coast ports. Whereas at the same time there were American shipping companies operating/competing for freight between New Zealand and Australia etc...
@@femsfables The book is, what it is, not what anyone has said about it. It is about power surely? If you want to study something like the European empires that is history. Literature perhaps takes history far too much for granted?! Specifically there is new book out for sale right now called _Colonialism, a moral reckoning_ by Oxford professor Nigel Biggar. Of course the British Empire is very different from the other European empires.
@@femsfables Ones interpretation or understanding of anything, in the whole of life, ought not to be grounded in expectations. A meal out, a present at Xmas, a film at the cinema... etc? Like a moral absolute.
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Your English is amazing cold or no cold! Challenging choices. The Princess and the Goblin - a childhood favourite (illustrations by Arthur Rackham) from the library! So excited to hear about your Children's Lit course next semester - my master's was in Library and Information Studies with specialisms in children's lit and local history.
Oh wow, that’s sounds like such an interesting master’s degree!
Really enjoyed this video! Haven't read any but Heart Of Darkness and Mrs Dalloway remain high in my TBR. I just had a bookhaul 3 days ago and would love to share:
1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (My first Steinbeck, in a gorgeous Penguin Modern Classic edition)
2. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Acebe, again in the modern classic edition
3. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins in Collins Classics Edition.
4. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in idk what edition lmaoo but looked great
5. The Bell Jar in a beautiful black cover with red font, WILCO books edition, published in 2024.
The cover of the book which I will be reading matters alot to me. I love love LOVE penguin black classics and Modern Classics editions and this quirk of mine makes me not buy books which I am dying to read just bcuz the cover looks bland/bad. I saw leaves of Grass and Heart If Darkness in the bookstore, those 2, Ive been dying to own, but didnt buy them cuz both of them looked so ugly. Help T-T. But I eventually get to those books in my preferred cover, just it takes quite alot of time, or if Im lucky, I find the cover of the book nice enough ti buy. Just like the incident with Bell Jar and Woman in White, both of these Ive encountered before but resisted buying cuz of the cover design but now when I own then, THEY LOOK FABULUOS. Feels really great tbh, anyways, Lovely video!
Such a great book haul!! I don’t care too much about covers as I get most of my books second hand, but I do love myself a good Penguin Black Classic or Modern Classic!
Quite a selection. Heart of Darkness was the inspiration behind the film 'Apocalypse Now' set during the Vietnam War and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Kurtz was played by Marlon Brando. Visually stunning and seemed to catch the madness of war. The very best of luck with James Joyce, not for me! I hope your studies are going well.
Surprisingly, I have never seen Apocalypse Now… I definitely should now that I know Heart of Darkness was its inspiration!
@@femsfables I watched it in Germany when I worked for the US Army. The audience had a great number of Vietnam Veterans. They all agreed it was very close to real thing. I always remember one guy who when called up picked the Navy as he thought he would be safe on a battleship 15 miles offshore. He ended up on a river gunboat ( which features in the film) being shot at from 30 yards away. Take care and enjoy your reading.
Hi @ba... my dad did two tours in Nam early in the war ('66--'67 Ia Drang era, the Hal Moore & Joseph Galloway account, We Were Soldiers Once and Young is a great read!) Definately NOT Victoberish though in The Heir of Redclyff, Yonge does send off Phillip to join the Army as a economic measure (even back then if you were young and broke joining the army was a doable option) but I'm almost done with the book and not a word of Phillip in actual combat, rather reminacent of Jane Austen's interminable troop of soldier beaus who in novel after novel never seem to do any actual fighting LOL!...come to think of it, what is the correct month for reading about imperialistic massacre on a grand scale?!?...Kurt Vonnegut did it best, his birthday is in November maybe that's the time to re-visit Slaughter House Five. Thank you for your service too by the way.
@@dougirvin2413 The Vietnam was part of the Cold War surely?
Hi @@Richard.HistoryLit, basically it was but still none of it needed to happen.
My copy of The Doctor's Wife took ages too: maybe it's because a lot of people are doing Victober!
Haha yes, maybe that’s the reason!
I'm not crazy about modernism... I didn't love The doctor's wife but I liked it, just thought it could have been shorter. However, the author had a good sense of humour :) Enjoy !
What is so cool about a crisis?
@@Richard.HistoryLit Which crisis ?....
@@isabellemenez5704 Isn't modernism at least something to do with a crisis?
@@Richard.HistoryLit I was talking about that era of British novels, nothing more.
I’m very curious to read it now!
What!? How is _Heart of Darkness_ to do with colonialism. It's about one guy who disappears from his post if I remember correctly.
Marlowe’s journey to meet / find Kurtz sure seems to be the main plotline of the book! However, Marlowe was in the Congo working for a Belgian trading company which just can’t be separated from Belgium’s colonialist past. I do think people tend to forget this fact while reading the book, because so much of the focus is on Kurtz… I honestly think this is why I didn’t love the Conrad’s novel as I went into it thinking it would discuss the problems of colonialism, but instead it seemed to glance over that theme completely to focus on Kurtz…
@@femsfables Perhaps it does discuss colonialism. The characters in the story live their lives in a world they encountered or were born into. And of course trade is not much of a big deal per se. It is happening this very day etc. The leadership of most Western countries did not exactly believe in (global) classical free trade during the c.19th so that would explain a Belgian company on location in the book, not a German or British company etc. This continued into the c.20th as for example U.S.A. allowed only American shipping companies to ply the trades routes between Hawaii and the West coast ports. Whereas at the same time there were American shipping companies operating/competing for freight between New Zealand and Australia etc...
@@femsfables The book is, what it is, not what anyone has said about it. It is about power surely? If you want to study something like the European empires that is history. Literature perhaps takes history far too much for granted?! Specifically there is new book out for sale right now called _Colonialism, a moral reckoning_ by Oxford professor Nigel Biggar. Of course the British Empire is very different from the other European empires.
Of course, but a reader’s experience and expectations of a book are very important to their interpretation. Literature is always subjective :)
@@femsfables Ones interpretation or understanding of anything, in the whole of life, ought not to be grounded in expectations. A meal out, a present at Xmas, a film at the cinema... etc? Like a moral absolute.