I know what you mean about The return of the soldier, such an interesting read. Yes Girl same, my reading last year was so nonexistent and I finally feel like I'm getting back into it this year which is so exciting. So many books to read!
Hi, I can see over 1,000 people have watched this video already. Yet you only have about 200 likes? I’m sure that your audience would be willing to give you a like but they just forget, I know I often do. Maybe you could encourage us to leave a like, when you are signing off. I believe it makes a big difference to the algorithm and hence to how often your videos are seen/offered to new prospective subscribers.. Claire B xxx
You’re so lucky to like it. I read it for this bookclub. The story itself is nice but the writing was so slow placed. It felt too long. Reminded me of Mansfield Park a little bit.
@diananwilatimasri7980 Yes, I'm still reading and enjoying it, but I keep thinking about the other books on my shelves I'm really excited about. I may alternate between two books, not something I would usually do.
Yes, Middlemarch may be slow-going at first, but by page 150 or 200 or so, I think you'll find yourself absorbed by it and the psychological richness and philosophical insights (which Tolstoy appears to be trying to imitate with his Anna Karenina) will leave you wondering why aren't there more books like it! :) Keep it up! I'm reading it too, I'm at Book 4 right now. If anything, I find the slow pace of it and almost "plotlessness" of it (though that's of course an exaggeration!) combined with its richness and depth to be precisely what makes Middlemarch (and Anna Karenina to a somewhat lesser extent) to be near-perfect captures of Life itself! The human condition in its fullest, richest expression. 🩷
That sounds so interesting! I loved Anna Karenina and also Silas Marner (also by G. Eliot), and by the way you describe it, I want to read Middlemarch even more!
@@ProseAndPetticoatsI read Anna K after reading Middlemarch and enjoyed it, however I have to say MM blows it out of the water (in my opinion). By page 60 I was absolutely captivated! Enjoy
In March I finished Middlemarch! I agree that it also starts off slow-paced since it took me the longest to read out of any book. However, I was also heavily annotating for my literature class. I turned out to find it absolutely jarring. It is super humane and funny at times. By page 350 or so it starts to really get intriguing due to all the messiness and new characters.
Hello Carolyn🐰, thanks for another nice Video😀. Here are my Books in March: 1.) „When we were Orphans“ by Kazuo Ishiguro👌; 2.) „Breats and Eggs“ by Mieko Kawakami❤; 3.) „Nothing But The Night“ by the amazing!!!! John Williams😘; 4.) 400 Pages of „Middlemarch“😉; 5.) „Heart of Darkness“ by Joseph Conrad👏; 6.) „Go Tell it on the Mountain“ by James Baldwin🙏 and 7.) „First Help“ by Mariana Leky😄. I read all the Books in german, my Mothertongue and M.Leky is a german Author. She is glorious! I have a Question: can you make a Picture from Kazuo Ishiguro? He is one of my absolut favourite Author🥰. Happy Eastern and always…..happy Reading, love Greetings from Berlin🪻
Have you read The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (Mark Lawrence)? Snow, Glass, Apples (Neil Gaiman)? I'm currently reading None of This Is True (Lisa Jewell).
In March I read No Darkness for love (a romance) and Love's leading ladies profiles of romance authoress's; I read or am reading for March Mystery Madness: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie and A Study in Scarlett was the first Sherlock Holmes. I am now reading The Sign of Four (another Sherlock Holmes) and The League of Lady Poisoners. I also started The Far Pavillions by MM Kaye for March of the Mammoths but its probably going to take me a few months to get through that one...
So glad you’re having a great reading year ❤️ I am too, esp this past month! I visited Ireland so lots of Irish lit (Normal People (finally) and Picture of Dorian Gray (hilarious and so eerie). I just finished Kafka on the Shore on audiobook and I’m so excited for 1Q84 with the bookclub!
so glad you're loving enid blyton! i think most british kids who read a lot grew up with her, my mum and dad both had her books (my mum had a lot of the animal/brownie/pixie etc books, plus the famous 5 and secret seven series, my dad had a lot of noddy books), she's got such a massive back catalogue so there's loads to choose from! hope you're having a lovely easter 🥰💚🌷
Nature stories sounds so interesting, I'll check if there's an audio book for that one. In March I read And Every Morning the way home gets longer and longer (per your recommendation) and I listened to the audiobook of One Day by David Nicholls which was heartbreaking. It was a very slow month for me I'm currently reading The Brothers Karamazov but I'm having the same issue you have with Middlemarch that it takes a lot for me to pick it up haha and I'm also reading La casa de los espíritus (The House of Spirits) by Isabel Allende
The return of the soldier reminds me a bit of the movie The Vow. I finished Middlemarch on Wednesday. I think the finale was my favorite part of the whole book.
I am having the hardest time reading this year. Its like nothing grabs my attention and I hate that! I keep plugging along hoping to snap out of this soon! Carolyn, thank you for your wonderful videos, you're one sweet young lady!
Favorite Movies of 2023, but this was a bad year for movies. I watched far less movies this year than ever before, but there are some worth watching. None were in the top 200, but made the bottom of the list out of my top 350 favorite movies. 1) Godzilla minus One (2023) is #245 2) His Only Son (2023) 3) Napoleon (2023) 4) Oppenheimer (2023) #267 5) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 6) The Zone of Interest (2023) Dune: part 2 made #164 so that movie beat all the above.
I have quit reading for a goal, but remembered I promised to read one Charles Dickens book each year and so am on the last 100 pages of "A Tale of Two Cities" as I really should read all of his works and so one book each year might one day get me there.
Thank you, Carolyn!🌷A novel about a special bookshop owned by a young woman who needs a clear break from both her marriage and her career, and who finds in her bookshop and the community she creates around it a new purpose in life, is Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by the South-Korean author Hwang Bo-reum. It’s a book I listened to and then bought a paper copy of and reread immediately. I actually found it much better than the Morisaki story. Don’t give up on Middlemarch!
I really enjoyed "Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop"! For Carolyn, I recommend reading it as a book because she likes marking/annotating books like I do - this one has a lot of content to annotate.
That‘s funny you mention a book by Enid Blyton. I definitely remember reading some of her books as a child e.g. Famous five and The twins at St. Clares. I grew up in Germany and some of her childrens books were really popular in the 1990s among young readers. I‘ve never read any of her books since, but I might consider checking out the one you read. Im March I‘ve been reading Great Expectations and Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. Both I‘ve enjoyed very much and I can definitely recommend to give the latter a try, it‘s about an ancient Greek myth that connects the lives of five teenagers throughout the centuries (past, present and future).
Hi Carolyn Community, A friend recently suggested I read Project Hail Mary. She is a sci-fi enthusiast who says it's one of her favorites. If anyone has an opinion please share. It would be highly appreciated. Thank you. And as always Carolyn thank you for your videos.
From what I see, this channel isn't very sci-fi driven, so maybe not a lot of sci-fi fans are here. But even if they show up - I suggest you also just search youtube for reviews on that book. One fantasy and sci-fi channel I remember is Perused Project and I'm almost certain I saw that book talked about there.
I do not read sci fi either. However I will read anything written by Andy Weir. Project Hail Mary is his best. He also wrote The Martian. It was more. Of a page turner than HailMary which is much more substantial.
I'm not the biggest sci-fi fan, but I listened to the audiobook and ended up really loving it. It has quite a lot of scientific research and details in it, which I found interesting, but it's also so emotional and made me laugh out loud and cry. There is a very beautiful friendship between the main characters, but I shouldn't tell too much about the plot because it would be spoilers. Best to go in blind, kind of like the main character. If you decide to read it, definitely go for the audiobook! It's so well done, it really feels like the narrator IS the main character and having the sound makes the whole story so much more immersive. You will find out what I mean :)
At the moment I'm halfway through Dune and also reading Jane Austen's letters! Jane Austen is my favourite author but it seems like I'm not exactly in the mood for reading her letters right now... I've been wanting to re-read Sense and Sensibility instead, maybe I'll do that!
I love that you include the illustrated books/children's stories you've been reading! Have you read "Noticing" by Kobi Yamada and illustrated by Elise Hurst? It's a such a beautiful little story with such a deep and moving message woven through it, and the nature illustrations are so stunning and clever. I think it's something you might like ❤
Nature Stories looks amazing! I've read 4 books in March: Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen; The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Red and the Black, by Stendhal, and The Silent Woman, by Janet Malcolm (non-fiction).
Nature stories sounds cozy to read. Definitely gonna try it. (I just found your channel. I love the way you talk about books. Makes me want to read more. ) ❤
You made me want to pick up Nature Stories in my TBR this spring :) I think it ended up in my TBR after one of your videos and has been collecting dust for about a year 😂 Middlemarch is slow-paced, I totally agree. I'm reading it and listening to the audiobook at the same time, which makes the process even more tedious, but I like doing that with classics in English (not my first language).
Happy reading to you too! Always happy to see your smiling face in a new video and hearing your comments on books. Will read "What you are looking..." in April. ❤📚
Such a lovely list of books! ~and so many I want to check out myself. I actually listened to "Middlemarch" in the spring time during my walks at lunch time, and felt it was a great way to "read" the book. Walking and listening to it kept me very engaged in the story.
We will always support you. Keep working hard.
I know what you mean about The return of the soldier, such an interesting read. Yes Girl same, my reading last year was so nonexistent and I finally feel like I'm getting back into it this year which is so exciting. So many books to read!
Hi, I can see over 1,000 people have watched this video already. Yet you only have about 200 likes?
I’m sure that your audience would be willing to give you a like but they just forget, I know I often do. Maybe you could encourage us to leave a like, when you are signing off.
I believe it makes a big difference to the algorithm and hence to how often your videos are seen/offered to new prospective subscribers..
Claire B xxx
❤📚❤️ I'm loving Middlemarch. 🤗
You’re so lucky to like it. I read it for this bookclub. The story itself is nice but the writing was so slow placed. It felt too long. Reminded me of Mansfield Park a little bit.
@diananwilatimasri7980 Yes, I'm still reading and enjoying it, but I keep thinking about the other books on my shelves I'm really excited about. I may alternate between two books, not something I would usually do.
Have you ever read The Naughtiest Girl series by Enid Blyton? Terrific!!
Yes, Middlemarch may be slow-going at first, but by page 150 or 200 or so, I think you'll find yourself absorbed by it and the psychological richness and philosophical insights (which Tolstoy appears to be trying to imitate with his Anna Karenina) will leave you wondering why aren't there more books like it! :) Keep it up! I'm reading it too, I'm at Book 4 right now. If anything, I find the slow pace of it and almost "plotlessness" of it (though that's of course an exaggeration!) combined with its richness and depth to be precisely what makes Middlemarch (and Anna Karenina to a somewhat lesser extent) to be near-perfect captures of Life itself! The human condition in its fullest, richest expression. 🩷
That sounds so interesting! I loved Anna Karenina and also Silas Marner (also by G. Eliot), and by the way you describe it, I want to read Middlemarch even more!
I am reading Middlemarch this year and I'm so excited. I've also read Silas Marner (which I found okay) and Anna Karenina (amazing novel).
I’m also on Book 4. I am loving it so far
I agree!! 😊
@@ProseAndPetticoatsI read Anna K after reading Middlemarch and enjoyed it, however I have to say MM blows it out of the water (in my opinion). By page 60 I was absolutely captivated! Enjoy
Happy Spring Carolyn! I hope you're enjoying the season so far
Carolyn! Thank you for posting.
I just finished reading the last book you mentioned! Great book! Now I am starting Tennant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
In March I finished Middlemarch! I agree that it also starts off slow-paced since it took me the longest to read out of any book. However, I was also heavily annotating for my literature class. I turned out to find it absolutely jarring. It is super humane and funny at times. By page 350 or so it starts to really get intriguing due to all the messiness and new characters.
Hello Carolyn🐰, thanks for another nice Video😀. Here are my Books in March: 1.) „When we were Orphans“ by Kazuo Ishiguro👌; 2.) „Breats and Eggs“ by Mieko Kawakami❤; 3.) „Nothing But The Night“ by the amazing!!!! John Williams😘; 4.) 400 Pages of „Middlemarch“😉; 5.) „Heart of Darkness“ by Joseph Conrad👏; 6.) „Go Tell it on the Mountain“ by James Baldwin🙏 and 7.) „First Help“ by Mariana Leky😄. I read all the Books in german, my Mothertongue and M.Leky is a german Author. She is glorious! I have a Question: can you make a Picture from Kazuo Ishiguro? He is one of my absolut favourite Author🥰. Happy Eastern and always…..happy Reading, love Greetings from Berlin🪻
Have you read The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (Mark Lawrence)?
Snow, Glass, Apples (Neil Gaiman)?
I'm currently reading None of This Is True (Lisa Jewell).
Hi just wanted to say that I discovered your channel and you make me want to read all the books you recommend. You're a ray of sunshine in this world!
I am working my way through that big boy, Lonesome Dove.
I’m looking forward to reading Days at the Morisaki Bookshop!
I'm about to spring into book IV of Middlemarch.
In March I read No Darkness for love (a romance) and Love's leading ladies profiles of romance authoress's;
I read or am reading for March Mystery Madness: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie and A Study in Scarlett was the first Sherlock Holmes. I am now reading The Sign of Four (another Sherlock Holmes) and The League of Lady Poisoners. I also started The Far Pavillions by MM Kaye for March of the Mammoths but its probably going to take me a few months to get through that one...
I really love your book recommendations 👌 btw even my favourite classic is Anna Karenina…
Still have flops on your mind then😂😂😂😂
So glad you’re having a great reading year ❤️ I am too, esp this past month! I visited Ireland so lots of Irish lit (Normal People (finally) and Picture of Dorian Gray (hilarious and so eerie). I just finished Kafka on the Shore on audiobook and I’m so excited for 1Q84 with the bookclub!
so glad you're loving enid blyton! i think most british kids who read a lot grew up with her, my mum and dad both had her books (my mum had a lot of the animal/brownie/pixie etc books, plus the famous 5 and secret seven series, my dad had a lot of noddy books), she's got such a massive back catalogue so there's loads to choose from!
hope you're having a lovely easter 🥰💚🌷
Nature stories sounds so interesting, I'll check if there's an audio book for that one. In March I read And Every Morning the way home gets longer and longer (per your recommendation) and I listened to the audiobook of One Day by David Nicholls which was heartbreaking. It was a very slow month for me I'm currently reading The Brothers Karamazov but I'm having the same issue you have with Middlemarch that it takes a lot for me to pick it up haha and I'm also reading La casa de los espíritus (The House of Spirits) by Isabel Allende
Have you read the book Steven Demogorgon?
I also love books about books 👌
The Kindle version of 'What You Are Looking For Is In the Library' is on sale right now. $2.99.
Unfortunately I didn't enjoy Morisaki's Bookshop :( I'm excited to read Middlemarch this fall! 🍂
I will give Middlemarch a go as I really enjoyed Silas Marner, which I read at school nearly 60 years ago.
The return of the soldier reminds me a bit of the movie The Vow. I finished Middlemarch on Wednesday. I think the finale was my favorite part of the whole book.
I am having the hardest time reading this year. Its like nothing grabs my attention and I hate that! I keep plugging along hoping to snap out of this soon!
Carolyn, thank you for your wonderful videos, you're one sweet young lady!
Favorite Movies of 2023, but this was a bad year for movies. I watched far less movies this year than ever before, but there are some worth watching. None were in the top 200, but made the bottom of the list out of my top 350 favorite movies.
1) Godzilla minus One (2023) is #245
2) His Only Son (2023)
3) Napoleon (2023)
4) Oppenheimer (2023) #267
5) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
6) The Zone of Interest (2023)
Dune: part 2 made #164 so that movie beat all the above.
I have quit reading for a goal, but remembered I promised to read one Charles Dickens book each year and so am on the last 100 pages of "A Tale of Two Cities" as I really should read all of his works and so one book each year might one day get me there.
Thank you, Carolyn!🌷A novel about a special bookshop owned by a young woman who needs a clear break from both her marriage and her career, and who finds in her bookshop and the community she creates around it a new purpose in life, is Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by the South-Korean author Hwang Bo-reum. It’s a book I listened to and then bought a paper copy of and reread immediately. I actually found it much better than the Morisaki story. Don’t give up on Middlemarch!
I really enjoyed "Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop"! For Carolyn, I recommend reading it as a book because she likes marking/annotating books like I do - this one has a lot of content to annotate.
That‘s funny you mention a book by Enid Blyton. I definitely remember reading some of her books as a child e.g. Famous five and The twins at St. Clares. I grew up in Germany and some of her childrens books were really popular in the 1990s among young readers. I‘ve never read any of her books since, but I might consider checking out the one you read.
Im March I‘ve been reading Great Expectations and Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. Both I‘ve enjoyed very much and I can definitely recommend to give the latter a try, it‘s about an ancient Greek myth that connects the lives of five teenagers throughout the centuries (past, present and future).
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What a great mix of books. Happy Reading! 😎📚👍
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Hi Carolyn Community, A friend recently suggested I read Project Hail Mary. She is a sci-fi enthusiast who says it's one of her favorites. If anyone has an opinion please share. It would be highly appreciated. Thank you. And as always Carolyn thank you for your videos.
From what I see, this channel isn't very sci-fi driven, so maybe not a lot of sci-fi fans are here. But even if they show up - I suggest you also just search youtube for reviews on that book. One fantasy and sci-fi channel I remember is Perused Project and I'm almost certain I saw that book talked about there.
I do not read sci fi either. However I will read anything written by Andy Weir. Project Hail Mary is his best. He also wrote The Martian. It was more. Of a page turner than HailMary which is much more substantial.
I'm not the biggest sci-fi fan, but I listened to the audiobook and ended up really loving it. It has quite a lot of scientific research and details in it, which I found interesting, but it's also so emotional and made me laugh out loud and cry. There is a very beautiful friendship between the main characters, but I shouldn't tell too much about the plot because it would be spoilers. Best to go in blind, kind of like the main character. If you decide to read it, definitely go for the audiobook! It's so well done, it really feels like the narrator IS the main character and having the sound makes the whole story so much more immersive. You will find out what I mean :)
Thank you for sharing these books! Nature stories sound right up my alley, I would love to pick that book up for spring ☺
I'm really struggling with Middlemarch
At the moment I'm halfway through Dune and also reading Jane Austen's letters! Jane Austen is my favourite author but it seems like I'm not exactly in the mood for reading her letters right now... I've been wanting to re-read Sense and Sensibility instead, maybe I'll do that!
I love that you include the illustrated books/children's stories you've been reading! Have you read "Noticing" by Kobi Yamada and illustrated by Elise Hurst? It's a such a beautiful little story with such a deep and moving message woven through it, and the nature illustrations are so stunning and clever. I think it's something you might like ❤
Nature Stories looks amazing! I've read 4 books in March: Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen; The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Red and the Black, by Stendhal, and The Silent Woman, by Janet Malcolm (non-fiction).
I love your videos Carolyn. I’m gonna start reading Tuck Everlasting this weekend.🥹
Nature stories sounds cozy to read. Definitely gonna try it. (I just found your channel. I love the way you talk about books. Makes me want to read more. ) ❤
I like your video before even finishing. Hahaaa .. always good stuffs. And short and sweet. 😍 Adding Nature stories in my TBR. Thank you :)
I enjoy watching your videos so so much ❤️🫶🏻 Morning breakfasts are incomplete without your videos✨🥰
You made me want to pick up Nature Stories in my TBR this spring :) I think it ended up in my TBR after one of your videos and has been collecting dust for about a year 😂
Middlemarch is slow-paced, I totally agree. I'm reading it and listening to the audiobook at the same time, which makes the process even more tedious, but I like doing that with classics in English (not my first language).
I'm just waiting for the day when you'll hold your own book in your hands and talk about it ! ❤
Happy reading to you too! Always happy to see your smiling face in a new video and hearing your comments on books. Will read "What you are looking..." in April. ❤📚
I just finished What you are looking for is in the library and it was very cute and wholesome. I think you will end up liking it a lot!
You may also like Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland.
Happy weekend everyone! Reading Red rising
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Such a lovely list of books! ~and so many I want to check out myself. I actually listened to "Middlemarch" in the spring time during my walks at lunch time, and felt it was a great way to "read" the book. Walking and listening to it kept me very engaged in the story.
Hoped you marched during those walks in the middle of the day :')
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