Reading Wuthering Heights for the First Time 🍂🕯️📖 Reading Vlog *no spoilers*
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Join me for a cosy September week as I read the very beloved, yet divisive, classic: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. 🍂🕯️📖
Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
03:50 Reading
04:29 Thoughts at 50 pages
07:35 Half-Way Thoughts
15:02 Final Thoughts
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Loved hearing your thoughts! I’m currently reading wuthering heights and so far I’m indecisive on whether I like it or not. The obsessive love that Catherine and Heathcliff have is so interesting to read but at the same time I wish we got to read their inner thoughts instead of seeing their relationship from an outsider’s point of view.
Loved the video!❤ I'm one of those who love WH, it's my favourite novel. I've never read another book with the degree of passion and force that WH contains. And each time I reread it, I find something new in it to ponder and philosophize about. I fully understand why some hate it though. Heathcliff and Cathy are the worst people, it's heavy and depressive in it's atmosphere and is confusing the first time you read it. But we get that little light shining through the violence and anger at the end of the novel.❤ Ah, love this book so much!! Thanks so much for the video, I would love to see more of this sort of videoes from you if you feel like it!
Thank you so much for watching ☺️
I agree - it’s so full of emotion and passion, the writing is beautiful and the setting was so well depicted. I think I may even get more from it from a re-read. I just didn’t love the reading experience and could not stop myself comparing constantly to Jane Eyre, which was probably part of the issue! 😂
Yes, this book really doesn't have hope, but I found that these kind of books also leaves mark and I'm thinking of them long after reading. In this case, about love that is so big and strong and out of this world that it leads to madness. Only thinking about love that is so strong, but weird, is overwhelming.
I'm about to start The Tenent. Don't know what to expect, don't know anything about that one.
And, YES, do continue your Bronte series and I'll follow you along!
Lots and lots of cousins and pillows and rest and slow walks...🤗😘❤️
I so agree - I can tell that this will be a book I think about for a long time after reading. I’m fact, I’m sure my opinion will change on it over time too. That’s the mark of a great book! It’s interesting how it’s really not a romance novel, yet it’s a book all about love.
I hope you enjoy The Tenant of Wildfell Hall !😍
Not sure I'll read it this month. Maybe in October. Right now I need some light read as I'm recovering from surgery... I'm reading fantasy novel The crown of coral and pearl (very nice world building).
I felt similarly right when I finished the book but a couple days later my feelings really changed and I changed my rating from 3 to 5 stars! I loved hearing your thoughts!! I’d love to see more videos on the other Brontë novels ☺️ Villette is my fav Charlotte novel!
That’s so interesting that it changed from 3 to 5 stars for you. I definitely feel like it’s a book that I will change my views on over time. I’m still thinking about it even a few weeks after reading it. Lots of people study it for school, but I never did, and feel like I missed out!
I have Villette on my shelves too, and am looking forward to that one! 💛
I’d love for you to read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall next!
I read WH when I was in high school and loved it but haven’t picked it up since. I’d love to do a re-read and see what I think of it now!
A lovely video, as always. 🫶🏻
The Tenant is definitely the one I’m leaning slightly more towards reading next! I’ve heard so many good things about that one.
Thank you so much 🧡☺️
wuthering hights and the professor are both on my TBR , i read the tenant of wildfell haul back in january and it was so good , it became one of my favourite classics of all times.
I think Tenant is the one I’m leaning towards reading next as I’ve heard so many good things about it!
Happy reading🌸
I'm so glad you finished it!! I do want to reread it in another couple years now that I've gotten more Victorian lit under my belt. I do want to get Emily's poetry collection now.
I vote for you to read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. It's a great book! I like it 2nd to Jane Eyre if i rank the sisters against each other. I've ugly read JE from Charlotte tho. I also enjoyed Agnes Gray by Anne. It's a different feel from Tenant.
Tenant is definitely the one I’m leaning more towards at the moment!
I think Wuthering Heights is definitely the sort of book that you could get so much more from in a re-read!
Loved this review, I thought it was an exemplary piece of literary writing but a bit of a fever dream.
I suggest if you want a great reading experience read the Tenant of Wildfell Hall! Then as you say go onto more by either Charlotte or Emily.
Thank you! Tenant is definitely the one I’m leaning most towards reading next!
So happy to have seen this video. I would definately vote for Anne Bronte ❤ as next choice.
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I have 'Villette' by Charlotte Bronte on my to read list this year and I'm hoping to pick it up soon. I've watched the tv mini-series of 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' which is a wonderful production, so out of the books you held up to read I would start with 'The Tenant . . ."
I also have Villette on my shelves which I hope to get to one day! I hadn’t realised there was a tv mini-series for Tenant - which is definitely the one I’m leaning slightly more towards reading next!
Thank you for your review and insight on Wuthering Heights. I struggled with it but glad I read it. Your copy is so beautiful. Have you read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell? I think you might like it...
Take care and be blessed, your looking radiant and hope you're not too uncomfortable at times.
I love North and South - I read it only a few months ago and adored it! 😍
Thank you so much, that’s so kind of you to say 🧡
Lovely video ❤ I read it for the first time last year. I had mixed feelings. It was very disturbing in places and not really very romantic. I wondered if it was written as a warning against obsessive love. It was a very strange read for me!
I didn't even had family tree in book! It was nightmare lol
Oh no! I would definitely have struggled in the beginning without one 😂
Actually this critical response sums up how I felt after reading this "How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery. It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors".[14] , Graham's Lady Magazine.
I've started Wuthering Heights twice and never managed to finishing it 🙈 But I'll try a third time, I promise 😅. About Anne, I'd start with Agnes Grey because it's a cozier book than The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and I feel you may get disappointed by Agnes if you read Tenant first. I have also read Villette and I loved it even more than Jane Eyre 😊
Thank you for the suggestion, I’ll have to have a look into Agnes Grey as I don’t know anything about that one! I also have Villette on my bookshelves so am hoping to get to that one at some point too ☺️
Wuthering Heights is one of my 3 favorites of all time. I really love that book. I collect different copies of it. Actually they didn't "run through the fields" it was the moors.The descriptions of the moors was such beautiful writing, the descriptive writing "the mist of the moors, etc. A very passionate book, almost unearthly... how Cathy felt an actual physical part of Heathcliff. I don't think you really liked it and that's OK, that's your opinion and you shouldn't be afraid to say it. Anytime I brought W.H. up in conversation in the past, I was always told I was wierd, the bk. was very depressing, I didn't know one other person who liked it! Didn't matter to me. They didn't see behind the words, no insight, didn't even finish. If you've seen pictures of the Bronte's home (vicarage); Emily probably drew on her own isolated surroundings. Well, I could go on, but I'll end. You're British aren't you? My soul and spirit is very similar to Catherine Earnshaw's...must be why I like it so much. Everyone's reading style is different.🙂
It’s not necessarily that I didn’t like it…I just didn’t love it. I was enthralled by the passion and the language and the description, I just didn’t love the reading experience personally. I love that we all have such different interpretations of these influential books and I can imagine this would be a great book to study.
Hey😊
I tried the audio book a few years ago... I never finished it, the ambiance was so dark, creepy... perhaps the audio version wasn't a smart choice haha
I can imagine the audiobook would really set the dark mood! It’s definitely worth reading and getting through to the end, you just have to embrace the darker tone of the story!
Wuthering Heights definitely isn't everyone's cup of tea, though I think it is,probably, a great novel.Absolutely none of the characters are attractive to the reader,it's very hard to warm to anyone in the book.
For your next Brontë read I would recommend Villette,Charlotte again ,and,for some readers superior to JE.
Or,failing that,Emily's poems,some of them are breathtakingly beautiful, and they reflect her rather hard ,stoical,outlook on the world.
Btw,my edition of WH,a Penguin Classics from the 80s doesn't have a family tree-how I could have done with one!😂
I don’t think I would have gotten through the first half of the book without that family tree 😂
I have Villette on my shelves so that’s definitely one I want to read at some point soon! I can imagine Emily’s poems must be stunning too.
Forgot to say best of luck with the channel! Keep up the good work!
I've watched a couple of other booktubers' videos and they don't have the quiet charm that yours do.
Have a nice Sunday!