Fun video, Catherine! These sound interesting. Love watching your videos! 😍
@shelliclarke55636 ай бұрын
Love when a discarded library book has a pocket! An added bonus is if there's still a card in it 📚
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
History!
@captainnolan50626 ай бұрын
The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during the Second World War. Lawrence George Durrell CBE (/ˈdʊrəl, ˈdʌr-/;[1] 27 February 1912[2] - 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
@rebeccam72396 ай бұрын
Thank you for introducing some new classic authors to me. Also, I appreciate the reminder that favorite book authors have other books. Wilkie Collins for example, I read his most famous but never read any others. Contemporary authors have marketing to constantly remind me of other works, but classic authors are left out in the cold. Thank goodness for book lovers like you, giving the lesser known classics some attention.
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
I have found so many new favorite classics through Booktube!
@leafsonata6 ай бұрын
Great recs! 😂I didn't expect you to say Stay Sexy 😂 please take your time and heal soon. Sending good vibes from AL
@Lu.G.6 ай бұрын
A great stack of Classics! 👏🏻 Love the mug _and_ love hearing the kitties scurry around! 🐱
@HannahsBooks5 ай бұрын
Excellent collection! My Family and Other Animals is lovely! Hope you enjoy it. I'm afraid I still have the Barsetshire to go, but I think those are going to be on my 2024 list. I am thinking about reading New Grub Street perhaps this Victober. Mrs. Humphrey Ward sounds really interesting, and I am eager to hear what you think of it.
@inanimatecarbongod6 ай бұрын
Mrs Seacole's book is a fascinating read (I actually read it just before that Doctor Who episode, which was amusing). It's weird how "normal" life behind the lines during the Crimean War evidently.
@redouane-is9qk6 ай бұрын
Looking forward for bookshelf tour cos im dying to know what lies behind you 😊
@megreads96 ай бұрын
I wish I have English classic books but I only have French as we speak this lovely language in my country Lebanon, and I am targeting to built an English books and I started with the minimum quantity every month and waiting the sales because we all knew that book prices are going high due to the world economic crises that facing it but whenever we have the chance to have more books we shall not hesitate to do.
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
French classics are pretty great! And I just love Lebanese food.
@megreads9
6 ай бұрын
@@takingteawithcatherine You most welcome anytime to my country.
@noteworthyfiction6 ай бұрын
Love your classics collection. I recently read No Name and thought it was excellent!
@captainnolan50626 ай бұрын
Have you ever tried moving your regular glasses down your nose (towards the tip)? You get a magnification effect that is really quite good (I assume you are nearsighted - if so it will work for you). Take a look at the Oxford Trollope and then move your glasses down your nose and look at the print (and enjoy the magnification effect). Trollope's 'The Way We Live Now' is excellent.
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
When I pull my glasses down I get nose acne, because apparently I'm a teenager 😸
@kathleencraine73356 ай бұрын
Phineas Finn is not the best installment of the Pallisers (IMHO), but it gives important background on characters that are key figures in the later (better) books in the series. I really enjoyed Barnaby Rudge. It is historical fiction based on a real event (London anti-Catholic riots) & the riot scenes are brilliant. Your edition looks lovely to read, but I'd also highly recommend having on hand an edition that has notes/historical background to better appreciate Dickens' story. LOVE the bittersweet novella Cousin Phillis; hope you do, too. AND Love your Virago edition of Marcella; haven't read it yet, but I do covet that cover! 😊
@tomaria1006 ай бұрын
Happy New Year! Happy reading in 2024,Catherine!
@marytumulty42576 ай бұрын
Greetings of the Season, Catherine! Best wishes for 2024. I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve heard good things about “New Grub Street” not only from some you tubers but also from a friend. I enjoy reading Trollope in the Oxford World Classic editions because they have the literary/historical chronology in the front and also the explanatory footnotes in the back. In 2024, I hope to read “Phineas Finn”. I think “Phineas Redux” is the one that has gotten some less than favorable. A few months ago, I read one of the stand alones, “Lady Anna”. I thought it was a bit repetitive. Currently, on You Tube there is a full film adaptation of “84 Charing Cross Road”. It’s so atmospheric. Anne Bancroft is wonderful as Helene Hanff.
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk6 ай бұрын
Some great choices there. Classics for a reason. Best wishes with your reading gin 2024 and to your channel.
@bonnieshelangi6 ай бұрын
Lol, I actually did hear the kitties running ❤ 😸😸 For me, Ayala's Angel was a solid Trollope quick read ❤ I also really enjoyed Phineas Finn. He's a classic, Trollopian flawed young man. And that edition is 😍 To me, Barnaby Rudge was a fast paced Dickens, which I appreciate bc sometimes Dickens can drag for me. And I read My Family and Other Animals, and I liked it but didnt love it. Maybe an unpopular opinion. I had watched the recent PBS adaptation and almost liked the adaptation better...but it might have been bc it was a library book that i was just trying to get read before I had to return it. Although other books I've read that I wasn't quite in the mood for bc they had to be returned at the library have turned into 4 and 5 star reads for me. 🤷♀️
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
A fast-paced Dickens is a joy!
@josmith59926 ай бұрын
I just checked my own ecopy of Marcella, which I am still to read and it was published in 1894 so definitely Victorian 👍 I really enjoyed Ayala’s Angel and I love Phineas as a character though I know others don’t. Compared to Can You Forgive Her? there are more politics but I didn’t think it was too much. I also read Barnaby Rudge for the first time this summer and was surprised how much I enjoyed it because it’s not one you hear many people talk about. Not sure I’d even heard of I Say No so will look forward to seeing what you think of it Catherine and I loved seeing bits of kitties floating across the camera 😂
@captainnolan50626 ай бұрын
Have you read (or attempted ) Bleak House by Dickens?
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
Read and loved it some time ago.
@captainnolan5062
6 ай бұрын
@@takingteawithcatherine Excellent! I hoped you would have loved it. I am interested to see how you get on with "Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty."
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Fun video, Catherine! These sound interesting. Love watching your videos! 😍
Love when a discarded library book has a pocket! An added bonus is if there's still a card in it 📚
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
History!
The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during the Second World War. Lawrence George Durrell CBE (/ˈdʊrəl, ˈdʌr-/;[1] 27 February 1912[2] - 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
Thank you for introducing some new classic authors to me. Also, I appreciate the reminder that favorite book authors have other books. Wilkie Collins for example, I read his most famous but never read any others. Contemporary authors have marketing to constantly remind me of other works, but classic authors are left out in the cold. Thank goodness for book lovers like you, giving the lesser known classics some attention.
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
I have found so many new favorite classics through Booktube!
Great recs! 😂I didn't expect you to say Stay Sexy 😂 please take your time and heal soon. Sending good vibes from AL
A great stack of Classics! 👏🏻 Love the mug _and_ love hearing the kitties scurry around! 🐱
Excellent collection! My Family and Other Animals is lovely! Hope you enjoy it. I'm afraid I still have the Barsetshire to go, but I think those are going to be on my 2024 list. I am thinking about reading New Grub Street perhaps this Victober. Mrs. Humphrey Ward sounds really interesting, and I am eager to hear what you think of it.
Mrs Seacole's book is a fascinating read (I actually read it just before that Doctor Who episode, which was amusing). It's weird how "normal" life behind the lines during the Crimean War evidently.
Looking forward for bookshelf tour cos im dying to know what lies behind you 😊
I wish I have English classic books but I only have French as we speak this lovely language in my country Lebanon, and I am targeting to built an English books and I started with the minimum quantity every month and waiting the sales because we all knew that book prices are going high due to the world economic crises that facing it but whenever we have the chance to have more books we shall not hesitate to do.
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
French classics are pretty great! And I just love Lebanese food.
@megreads9
6 ай бұрын
@@takingteawithcatherine You most welcome anytime to my country.
Love your classics collection. I recently read No Name and thought it was excellent!
Have you ever tried moving your regular glasses down your nose (towards the tip)? You get a magnification effect that is really quite good (I assume you are nearsighted - if so it will work for you). Take a look at the Oxford Trollope and then move your glasses down your nose and look at the print (and enjoy the magnification effect). Trollope's 'The Way We Live Now' is excellent.
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
When I pull my glasses down I get nose acne, because apparently I'm a teenager 😸
Phineas Finn is not the best installment of the Pallisers (IMHO), but it gives important background on characters that are key figures in the later (better) books in the series. I really enjoyed Barnaby Rudge. It is historical fiction based on a real event (London anti-Catholic riots) & the riot scenes are brilliant. Your edition looks lovely to read, but I'd also highly recommend having on hand an edition that has notes/historical background to better appreciate Dickens' story. LOVE the bittersweet novella Cousin Phillis; hope you do, too. AND Love your Virago edition of Marcella; haven't read it yet, but I do covet that cover! 😊
Happy New Year! Happy reading in 2024,Catherine!
Greetings of the Season, Catherine! Best wishes for 2024. I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve heard good things about “New Grub Street” not only from some you tubers but also from a friend. I enjoy reading Trollope in the Oxford World Classic editions because they have the literary/historical chronology in the front and also the explanatory footnotes in the back. In 2024, I hope to read “Phineas Finn”. I think “Phineas Redux” is the one that has gotten some less than favorable. A few months ago, I read one of the stand alones, “Lady Anna”. I thought it was a bit repetitive. Currently, on You Tube there is a full film adaptation of “84 Charing Cross Road”. It’s so atmospheric. Anne Bancroft is wonderful as Helene Hanff.
Some great choices there. Classics for a reason. Best wishes with your reading gin 2024 and to your channel.
Lol, I actually did hear the kitties running ❤ 😸😸 For me, Ayala's Angel was a solid Trollope quick read ❤ I also really enjoyed Phineas Finn. He's a classic, Trollopian flawed young man. And that edition is 😍 To me, Barnaby Rudge was a fast paced Dickens, which I appreciate bc sometimes Dickens can drag for me. And I read My Family and Other Animals, and I liked it but didnt love it. Maybe an unpopular opinion. I had watched the recent PBS adaptation and almost liked the adaptation better...but it might have been bc it was a library book that i was just trying to get read before I had to return it. Although other books I've read that I wasn't quite in the mood for bc they had to be returned at the library have turned into 4 and 5 star reads for me. 🤷♀️
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
A fast-paced Dickens is a joy!
I just checked my own ecopy of Marcella, which I am still to read and it was published in 1894 so definitely Victorian 👍 I really enjoyed Ayala’s Angel and I love Phineas as a character though I know others don’t. Compared to Can You Forgive Her? there are more politics but I didn’t think it was too much. I also read Barnaby Rudge for the first time this summer and was surprised how much I enjoyed it because it’s not one you hear many people talk about. Not sure I’d even heard of I Say No so will look forward to seeing what you think of it Catherine and I loved seeing bits of kitties floating across the camera 😂
Have you read (or attempted ) Bleak House by Dickens?
@takingteawithcatherine
6 ай бұрын
Read and loved it some time ago.
@captainnolan5062
6 ай бұрын
@@takingteawithcatherine Excellent! I hoped you would have loved it. I am interested to see how you get on with "Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty."