I've heard that being said a lot! I bought it on kindle and somehow still feel a bit trepidatious about it, but I really ought to try soon :D Everyone and their mother is recommending it.
Aldous Huxley is a man! I had to look this up because I couldn't believe it. I think the copyright was just given to a family member/possibly his wife.
Not a flop of a video at all; it's honestly refreshing and so inspiring to see that you have actually managed to read the oldest books on your tbr since then! Also, I would highly recommend Brave New World. We studied it in depth at school and its themes are so interesting! I'd recommend reading some of the theory behind the book after you finish it, it's so worth it!
Laura Huxley is Aldous Huxley’s widow, but she is also an author an musician ❤️ well done on that TBR! And the fact that you read all those books doesn’t make the video less exciting; it just means we get to celebrate your success with you ❤️💕 I have a mountain of classics on my TBR also... lately I’ve been thinking that the way to tackle them is to read one classic a month, but I haven’t tried yet. By the way , Tess and Brave New World are both on my TBR also, so if you felt like buddy reading either of them, I’d be happy to volunteer. Just sayin’ 😜
I love watching these reaction type videos and it's so refreshing to see one where most of the books have been read! And wow! All the power to you for reading all those classics! The language and writing style intimidate me so much so I always pick other books to read instead. I did finally finish Pride and Prejudice last year (on the second attempt) and I was so proud of myself. Also Brandon Sanderson. I'm working myself up to starting Elantris but the whole Cosmere universe is so intimidating. Heidi made me smile. I love it and it's probably my favourite children's classic.
Well done for having read so many of your original oldest books! I have thoughts on your new oldest TBR: 1. Tess - read it, it's tragic but memorable! 2. Brave New World - intimidating but interesting. Short, easy and weird. It keeps you distanced from the characters and is as much a thought-piece as a novel. 3. Shirley - takes AGES to get going, but satisfying eventually. Pace yourself. 4. The Count of Monte Cristo - EXCELLENT read! It is huge, but you will fly through it. There's a weird bit in the middle where the story shifts a couple of perspectives, but stick with it. The pay off is wonderful. Also, my husband recommends the audiobook narrated by Bill Homewood (if it's available to you, we got it on Audible in the UK), as he has listened to it 4 or 5 times in the last 8 years! Haven't read 5 - 8, although the Jane Eyre ones sound good! 9. Far from the Madding Crowd - I haven't read it, Thomas Hardy left me scarred after Tess! I think I could read it now its been a few years... 10. The Brontes - on my TBR for this year too!!! I just need to read Tenant of Wildfell Hall and then I can read the biography. It is very intimidating. 1000 pages of biography?! I've heard that it is the best Bronte bio too. Thanks for the video, as always. Loved your reactions to having read each book! And the rolly chair.
I absolutely love Shirley - there's an amazing female friendship and the romance between Caroline and Robert is just to die for. However it does have a really slow section in the middle, so I'd say please just don't give up and keep going because the ending is WORTH IT! I'd also maybe recommend Far from the Madding Crowd over Tess as a first Thomas Hardy because it's a bit more uplifting.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of my favorite classic novels! I hope you enjoy it too. Also, I had so much fun watching this video with you sliding around the chair. I wouldn't mind if you kept this background for more of your videos :D
You really slayed that tbr! I probably still have books from 2010 cause that was the time the bookstore in town closed and it made me go insane with getting books 😬 The Unexpected Everything is my favorite Morgan Matson book, I thought the romance in it was sweet and enjoyed the dog walking but my favorite part was seeing the main character and her dad’s relationship. I much prefer her later books starting with Since You’ve Been Gone.
I READ THAT MASSIVE BRONTES BIOGRAPHY. It took a loooooong ass time, but it really was fascinating...for the most part, LOL. There's definitely like, too much detail at times, but I did learn a lot and it was so interesting to learn more about the family.
I remember when that video came out and I still remembered the #1 oldest book before you revealed it!! I was happy for you because I knew you read it too
Ahahahahha *sobs over Cristo* You are a precious bean and I loved your reactions throughout this entire video! We got choo boo, we'll just cry over it together. I have read none. I am illiterate. Ha!
I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles a couple months ago (it was also one of the oldest books on my tbr^^) and I definitely think it was a worthwhile read. It's one of those books where you can't really say you enjoyed it because the subject matter is not exactly enjoyable. But I do think it is an important read as it sheds light on female experience and suppression in the 19th century.
You did awesome haha! I wasn’t expecting the video to go like this either. I’ve read Brave New World twice and enjoyed it. Definitely way before it’s time. I started reading the Count of Monte Cristo last year and it’s really accessible. I’m going to try to finish it again this year. Great video as always!!
Shirley is amazing. I read it as a teen and a couple of years ago. I highly recommend it. I have owned the Juliet Barker book for nearly 20 years without reading it! And according to Amazon I bought the Count of Monte Cristo in 2007. Still unread. I have also read both the Thomas Hardy books. I predict you will either love or loathe Tess...mainly because of the annoying heroine. Oops gave myself away as to what I think! Far From the Madding Crowd is a really good book though. I read the Aldous Huxley book and it has not really stuck in my mind. I love the range of titles you have here and really enjoyed this video.
You could put all those books on your June TBR and do a reading vlog for them. I'd watch that, it sounds fun :) I also own a bunch of classics that I haven't read and have been sitting on my shelves for years. They also belong to the 10 oldest books on my TBR. And the others are Dutch literary fiction. Let's go from oldest to newest: De zesde mei by Tomas Ross (a literary political crime thriller to do with the murder of a prolific politician) and has been on my TBR since 2007 De Steniging by Frenk van der Linden. Has been on there since 2008 TXT which is a collection of Dutch short stories from well-known authors of lit-fic. Been there since 2010 and only partly read because the stories haven't really been to my liking. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens since about 2011/2012 (as a classic for the English reading list, but I didn't have the time to finish it so now I will have to reread the first half to finish of the book. *The rest I more or less got at the same time* Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma by Jane Austen The Essential Kafka by Franz Kafka (still don't know why I got the English edition, I think the German one will capture the writing better since that is the original language it was written in and I am proficient enough in German to read it) Moby Dick by Herman Melville Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte I intend to read them all the time, especially the English books on this list but there are always other ones that I want to read more.
Disruption will defs be one of the easier reads, I enjoyed it when I read it a few years back. I'm tempted to do this with my shelves, but I know I have books that I've owned for 10+ years that I still haven't read😬
Loved this video! Please make more reaction videos. :) The oldest books on my tbr is the Raven and Kiss of Deception haha. Still haven't gotten to them.
Omg that’s awesome that you’ve read almost all of the ones from your first video! I love that you keep track of when you buy your books 😂 I’m too scared to hahaha
Tess D´Uberville are one of my favourite classics and it have much unexpecting plottwists. I even like A new brave world. And I love those earrings (me too)!!!
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Had to investigate Aldous Huxley because I was shocked! Laura Huxley was his wife. His full name is Aldous Leonard Huxley. I do wonder why it's copywritten to her though?
I loved this- I think it’s awesome that you read almost all of them! I think you would fly through the Morgan Matson book- it is cute and you will enjoy the doggy parts!
Both of the Hardy's are pretty good. I listened to them both on audio and I liked them. I started Monte Cristo in March of this year but you know.... world events happened and I fell out of reading my daily pages. What I had read, I was actually liking quite a lot. Everyone talks about how fast it reads and how adventure filled it is.
Monte Cristo stan over here 💕 I haven't read Tess, but I know its hella depressing. Madding Crowd was really good though :D Shirley is my favourite Bronte novel. I've said this before, but the Bronte Biography is really good, but can get a bit boring in places...especially the start for me, because its the parents lives before getting married and having the kids.
Wow! TBR assassin 😂 I remembered 🤯 that Final Empire was your oldest, so was waiting to 😆 when you got there. Tess IS very dark, obvs well-written, but I wouldn't be reading it just now, however old! But then, I don't love Hardy ( read a lot for school 🤮) I just find him too bleak. Great on descriptions of Dorset countryside! I prefer Trollope ( trash for Victorian Church Politics) Brave New World much better. I keep being told to read COMC, supposed to be a quick read? 🇫🇷 I know they're heavy and dangly, but ♥️ the earrings . Such a fun vid x
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i read brave new world 2 years ago in year 11, because school, and omg that books was outdated, and not in a nice classic way, and it was awful to discuss in class because somehow the teacher had no idea about any of the books context even though she'd been teaching it for 5 years, and thats on vce. i ended up listening to it in audio because i hated it that much. but tbh kinda want to read it again.
April, no!! Aldous Huxley was a man. What you read was the copyright name of his wife who owned the rights to his work. It's an excellent read and pretty relevant right about now!
Everytime you rolled backwards pleased with yourself I laughed so hard 😂
XD
the count of monte cristo reads SO quickly, it's so fast paced!
I've heard that being said a lot! I bought it on kindle and somehow still feel a bit trepidatious about it, but I really ought to try soon :D Everyone and their mother is recommending it.
Aldous Huxley is a man! I had to look this up because I couldn't believe it. I think the copyright was just given to a family member/possibly his wife.
Yep! Laura was his wife. So I'm assuming the rights were signed over to her.
I just about died when I saw her say that! But it was an honest mistake and classics are not necessarily her jam.
lmao i am boo boo the fool
I'm dying laughing at your facial expressions in this 😂
xD
Not a flop of a video at all; it's honestly refreshing and so inspiring to see that you have actually managed to read the oldest books on your tbr since then!
Also, I would highly recommend Brave New World. We studied it in depth at school and its themes are so interesting! I'd recommend reading some of the theory behind the book after you finish it, it's so worth it!
Laura Huxley is Aldous Huxley’s widow, but she is also an author an musician ❤️ well done on that TBR! And the fact that you read all those books doesn’t make the video less exciting; it just means we get to celebrate your success with you ❤️💕 I have a mountain of classics on my TBR also... lately I’ve been thinking that the way to tackle them is to read one classic a month, but I haven’t tried yet. By the way , Tess and Brave New World are both on my TBR also, so if you felt like buddy reading either of them, I’d be happy to volunteer. Just sayin’ 😜
I’m in love with those earrings!!
I love watching these reaction type videos and it's so refreshing to see one where most of the books have been read!
And wow! All the power to you for reading all those classics! The language and writing style intimidate me so much so I always pick other books to read instead. I did finally finish Pride and Prejudice last year (on the second attempt) and I was so proud of myself.
Also Brandon Sanderson. I'm working myself up to starting Elantris but the whole Cosmere universe is so intimidating.
Heidi made me smile. I love it and it's probably my favourite children's classic.
Well done for having read so many of your original oldest books!
I have thoughts on your new oldest TBR:
1. Tess - read it, it's tragic but memorable!
2. Brave New World - intimidating but interesting. Short, easy and weird. It keeps you distanced from the characters and is as much a thought-piece as a novel.
3. Shirley - takes AGES to get going, but satisfying eventually. Pace yourself.
4. The Count of Monte Cristo - EXCELLENT read! It is huge, but you will fly through it. There's a weird bit in the middle where the story shifts a couple of perspectives, but stick with it. The pay off is wonderful. Also, my husband recommends the audiobook narrated by Bill Homewood (if it's available to you, we got it on Audible in the UK), as he has listened to it 4 or 5 times in the last 8 years!
Haven't read 5 - 8, although the Jane Eyre ones sound good!
9. Far from the Madding Crowd - I haven't read it, Thomas Hardy left me scarred after Tess! I think I could read it now its been a few years...
10. The Brontes - on my TBR for this year too!!! I just need to read Tenant of Wildfell Hall and then I can read the biography. It is very intimidating. 1000 pages of biography?! I've heard that it is the best Bronte bio too.
Thanks for the video, as always. Loved your reactions to having read each book! And the rolly chair.
I absolutely love Shirley - there's an amazing female friendship and the romance between Caroline and Robert is just to die for. However it does have a really slow section in the middle, so I'd say please just don't give up and keep going because the ending is WORTH IT! I'd also maybe recommend Far from the Madding Crowd over Tess as a first Thomas Hardy because it's a bit more uplifting.
okay, when i get around to it i promise i'll stick it out til the end!!
Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of my favorite classic novels! I hope you enjoy it too. Also, I had so much fun watching this video with you sliding around the chair. I wouldn't mind if you kept this background for more of your videos :D
LOL. Hears book title, makes face, rolls away hahahaha I love it! This was a great video :)
hehee ty so much!
You really slayed that tbr! I probably still have books from 2010 cause that was the time the bookstore in town closed and it made me go insane with getting books 😬 The Unexpected Everything is my favorite Morgan Matson book, I thought the romance in it was sweet and enjoyed the dog walking but my favorite part was seeing the main character and her dad’s relationship. I much prefer her later books starting with Since You’ve Been Gone.
I’m not huge on classics but I had to read Monte Cristo in highschool and I actually loved it so much
I READ THAT MASSIVE BRONTES BIOGRAPHY. It took a loooooong ass time, but it really was fascinating...for the most part, LOL. There's definitely like, too much detail at times, but I did learn a lot and it was so interesting to learn more about the family.
So happy you loved Mistborn! :D Good luck with the classics, omg.
I also need to prioritize Tess, a buddy read would be good for these sort of big books
I remember when that video came out and I still remembered the #1 oldest book before you revealed it!! I was happy for you because I knew you read it too
Having read both Tess and Monte Cristo, I can assure you that Monte Cristo is a way faster read. Don't let its length intimidate you :)
April! I'm so proud of you for these accomplishments
Ahahahahha *sobs over Cristo*
You are a precious bean and I loved your reactions throughout this entire video! We got choo boo, we'll just cry over it together. I have read none. I am illiterate. Ha!
hehehehe yes let us cry and suffer together!!!! that's true friendship right there xD
i got so shook when i remembered watching the video you’re reacting to when it came out. HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN WATCHING YOU I WANT TO KNOW
HEHEHEH
I preferred much more if the books have been read! This is a nice change from other videos
I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles a couple months ago (it was also one of the oldest books on my tbr^^) and I definitely think it was a worthwhile read. It's one of those books where you can't really say you enjoyed it because the subject matter is not exactly enjoyable. But I do think it is an important read as it sheds light on female experience and suppression in the 19th century.
Well done for doing so well!
I have so many books on my old TBR that I never wouldve read them haha xD
You did awesome haha! I wasn’t expecting the video to go like this either. I’ve read Brave New World twice and enjoyed it. Definitely way before it’s time. I started reading the Count of Monte Cristo last year and it’s really accessible. I’m going to try to finish it again this year. Great video as always!!
I'm so glad this video turned out so well for you!! It's so satisfying to know you've read your books, at least it is for me.
A FLOP?! I think not...This is an Epic Win in my books. :O
This was brilliant 😂 I loved your total surprise that you had read these books!
April your energy in this video was amazing i love you 💜
awwww ty so much 🥺
Shirley is amazing. I read it as a teen and a couple of years ago. I highly recommend it. I have owned the Juliet Barker book for nearly 20 years without reading it! And according to Amazon I bought the Count of Monte Cristo in 2007. Still unread. I have also read both the Thomas Hardy books. I predict you will either love or loathe Tess...mainly because of the annoying heroine. Oops gave myself away as to what I think! Far From the Madding Crowd is a really good book though. I read the Aldous Huxley book and it has not really stuck in my mind. I love the range of titles you have here and really enjoyed this video.
I think I have books I haven't read that I've owned for 15 years. I'll get to them sometime! Maybe!
You could put all those books on your June TBR and do a reading vlog for them. I'd watch that, it sounds fun :)
I also own a bunch of classics that I haven't read and have been sitting on my shelves for years.
They also belong to the 10 oldest books on my TBR. And the others are Dutch literary fiction. Let's go from oldest to newest:
De zesde mei by Tomas Ross (a literary political crime thriller to do with the murder of a prolific politician) and has been on my TBR since 2007
De Steniging by Frenk van der Linden. Has been on there since 2008
TXT which is a collection of Dutch short stories from well-known authors of lit-fic. Been there since 2010 and only partly read because the stories haven't really been to my liking.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens since about 2011/2012 (as a classic for the English reading list, but I didn't have the time to finish it so now I will have to reread the first half to finish of the book.
*The rest I more or less got at the same time*
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma by Jane Austen
The Essential Kafka by Franz Kafka (still don't know why I got the English edition, I think the German one will capture the writing better since that is the original language it was written in and I am proficient enough in German to read it)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
I intend to read them all the time, especially the English books on this list but there are always other ones that I want to read more.
i was having way too much fun just watching you roll to pick up a book
hehehehe
You never cease to make me smile 🥺💜
🥺right back at you, my dear friend!!!! 🥰
Disruption will defs be one of the easier reads, I enjoyed it when I read it a few years back.
I'm tempted to do this with my shelves, but I know I have books that I've owned for 10+ years that I still haven't read😬
hahaha oh boyyyyyyyy XD
your lipstick is so pretty! great video☺️
Loved this video! Please make more reaction videos. :) The oldest books on my tbr is the Raven and Kiss of Deception haha. Still haven't gotten to them.
omg the kiss of deception!!!! i love that book so much!
Omg that’s awesome that you’ve read almost all of the ones from your first video! I love that you keep track of when you buy your books 😂 I’m too scared to hahaha
Tess D´Uberville are one of my favourite classics and it have much unexpecting plottwists.
I even like A new brave world.
And I love those earrings (me too)!!!
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The Brontës is a stunning work of non-fiction and of all the books on your list it is the one I would recommend.
currently reading count of monte cristo and its been so fun, such good story-telling. plus excited to watch the movie afterwards
This has nothing to do with the books but my roommate diced an onion for me once and it blew my mind. Literal magic.
Had to investigate Aldous Huxley because I was shocked! Laura Huxley was his wife. His full name is Aldous Leonard Huxley. I do wonder why it's copywritten to her though?
I loved this- I think it’s awesome that you read almost all of them! I think you would fly through the Morgan Matson book- it is cute and you will enjoy the doggy parts!
Great job, April!
Your reactions were priceless 😂 you've read so many!
I’d love to see a video about all the classic books you’ve ever read or your favorite classic books!
Both of the Hardy's are pretty good. I listened to them both on audio and I liked them. I started Monte Cristo in March of this year but you know.... world events happened and I fell out of reading my daily pages. What I had read, I was actually liking quite a lot. Everyone talks about how fast it reads and how adventure filled it is.
Monte Cristo stan over here 💕
I haven't read Tess, but I know its hella depressing. Madding Crowd was really good though :D
Shirley is my favourite Bronte novel. I've said this before, but the Bronte Biography is really good, but can get a bit boring in places...especially the start for me, because its the parents lives before getting married and having the kids.
i keep getting more and more hyped for monte cristo and shirley with every new comment! eeeee!
@@ApriliusMaximus there are a few moments in Monte Cristo that made me uncomfortable with the was slaves are treated, so watch out for that.
I can see why Tess of the D’Urbervilles would be intimidating, but I really think it’s up your alley classics-wise
This was a fun video. Thanks!
thanks for watching!
You actually read so many of them! Killin the game
I'm in the same boat with Morgan Matson. But I did love Since You've Been Gone and I also loved The Unexpected Everything
Wow! TBR assassin 😂 I remembered 🤯 that Final Empire was your oldest, so was waiting to 😆 when you got there.
Tess IS very dark, obvs well-written, but I wouldn't be reading it just now, however old! But then, I don't love Hardy ( read a lot for school 🤮) I just find him too bleak. Great on descriptions of Dorset countryside! I prefer Trollope ( trash for Victorian Church Politics)
Brave New World much better. I keep being told to read COMC, supposed to be a quick read? 🇫🇷
I know they're heavy and dangly, but ♥️ the earrings . Such a fun vid x
I love your reactions haha
Wow good for you!! It is NOT a fkoo because you read all the books!!
Your earring are GORGEOUS
Love the fact that you ended up reading basically all of the books and love those earrings! I've seen a lot of RUclipsrs talk about skillshare and you've actually made me download it hopefully I'll be speaking French in no time
oh, that's so exciting!!! Good luck!
I also have the count of monte cristo on my bookshelf. Its apparently the ultimate tale of revenge 🗡 that really sold it to me.
you did great! Only the 1 unread book, that's super impressive!
Woo good job!
The Unexpected Everything is soo good!🤩😍
Now I'm interested in how u taught was the right way to dice an onion lol 🤔
LOOOOL
Tess is so good!!!
GAL if you and Paige decide to read The Count can one of you give me a heads up so I can tackle the beast too
Hells, I'm struggling hard just trying to convince myself to read it xD
Haha I’m reading a little life EXTREMELY SLOWLY
@@eleanorhenderson9896 Bit by bit! I took many mental health care breaks just to preserve my remaining sanity
YAAASSSSSS
i read brave new world 2 years ago in year 11, because school, and omg that books was outdated, and not in a nice classic way, and it was awful to discuss in class because somehow the teacher had no idea about any of the books context even though she'd been teaching it for 5 years, and thats on vce.
i ended up listening to it in audio because i hated it that much. but tbh kinda want to read it again.
Also Morgan Matson's books are always good-feel summer reads, but they are also super hetero and white so you have to get past that
April, no!! Aldous Huxley was a man. What you read was the copyright name of his wife who owned the rights to his work. It's an excellent read and pretty relevant right about now!
omg LOL i am booboo the fool xD
What’s the purple Harry Potter book facing the camera at 3:42 ?
its a harry potter spell book! :D
Hi
I hated The Song of Achilles. The only reason I didn't dnf it was because I wanted to see them die. That's how much I hated them both.
lmaoooooo
Who is she!? Is this how booktube is supposed to work? 😂
Aldous Huxley is definitely not a woman, the copyright must have been his wife or something?
yeah, i realised that after 20000 people commented XD