It is age and life’s experiences that makes one appreciate the classics!!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

I think you're right about that Myra. Although reading some when I was young taught me a lot too.

This is V. Nabokov writing about Bleak House in his Lectures on Literature: "All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle." Thanks for the video!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 ай бұрын

That is a wonderful quotation and I agree wholeheartedly. Thank you for sharing it.

I loved Adam Bede. It's been over five years since I've read any Victorian novels. However, I read a whole bunce all at one time with some Edith Wharton, and George Sands and Laclos mixed in. When I got a computer, I stopped reading. I've just gotten back into reading this past couple of years. I just can't "hang" with reading like I used to. It takes longer but at least I am steady. There are so many wonderful Victorian novels. Everyone has a choice and can read what genre they want to read from this period, which is great.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

It's lovely that you have started reading again. It is a different pleasure from things on screen. You are so right that Victorian literature offers such a range of genres that there is something for everyone.

Thanks so much for the tag and it’s so good. Most of my classics have only been read in the last 5 years so they will be ones only read once

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

You are such a reader of classics now though!

I loved Bleak House!!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

😀

I feel like I've been invited into your parlor and company! ~and I've brought my own cup of tea, thank you very much. ☺ I so enjoyed listening to you discuss books and want to mention that I have "Our Mutual Friend" on my TBR for after the Christmas holidays!!!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

We do love to chat books and imagine we have bookloving companions joining us virtually 😀 Enjoy Our Mutual Friend.

@deblawrence8341

Жыл бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Merry Christmas!

I love this tag and it's perfect for me! I'll have a think and then post my thoughts. Thanks for tagging me!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Oh brilliant. No pressure but it is an easy tag to do I think 😀

I’m just dipping my toe into Victorian literature and loving it. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

I think Victorian literature has something for everyone. The one adjustment I think you have to make is that Victorian writers assumed their readers weren't in a hurry. What's been a success for you so far?

@glendaw5221

Жыл бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 hi. I agree. I also find that listening and also having the ebook or hard copy really helps me absorb the writing. The thing I’ve been amazed at is that I’ve wanted more! And of course the poetry. I’ve listened to book tubers read the poetry aloud and enjoyed it. I think I’m going to love both Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

@@glendaw5221 they are both wonderful writers 😀 The listen and read thing doesn't work for me except with poetry but I know lots of readers that swear by it.

Cranford is one I listened to last Victober and it is definitely a favorite of mine. Unfortunately I didn't read many Victorian books before 5 years ago.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Cranford really is delightful isn't it?

I love when you two do videos together. I need to read Adam Bede and Bleak House. Maybe next year. :)

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Oh you really do Stephanie as I think you will love both.

I am 62 and I retired in 2021. I have never been a reader, but I wanted to read classics and my daughter said she would read them with me. We are on our 17th classic \. My favorite was The count of Monte Cristo, I also liked Le Morte D'Arthur, Dracula, The Scarlett Pimpernel, The Three Musketeers and David Copperfield. Our first novel was one that I wanted to start out with and it was The Hunchback Of Notre Dame It did not turn out to ba a favorite

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

8 күн бұрын

Isn't it a joy to share books with our grown-up children? Sounds like you have been picking a great selection. I only got to The Count of Monte Cristo recently. Not an absolute favourite but a lot of fun to read. I should revisit Morte D'Arthur I think.

this was lovely 🥰

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mary. We enjoyed making this one.

Always love it when you two do a video about books together. Your enjoyment of being in each other's company and talking about books together is so palpable! Now I am very curious and would love to see at least a picture of your dog, Tilly! ❤❤

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊 We do love talking about books when we get together. The dog is very sweet natured and lovely.

Oh dear Tilly I’m a bit worried about your new dog now when you say that you like the scene featuring dogs in Far From the Madding Crowd! Only joking - I think the awful dog scene has just blotted out my memory of the happy dog scenes I’m sure are in there :-D Thanks for the tag I had come across Marissa’s video and thought it was a great idea! I always love ye’re videos when ye pair up. Sad for Vanity Fair that it got kicked off the list as I read it earlier this year and really enjoyed it, but I do enjoy Elizabeth Gaskell and I’ve not read Cranford yet, so glad it ranks so highly!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha. Good point about the awful dog scene. I hope you get to do the tag. Cranford is wonderful. It's much more lighthearted and funny than Gaskell's other novels.

Oh! I haven’t done a tag in so long! I’ll have to start thinking!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

At least this one doesn't need a load of preparation.

@RaineyDayReads

Жыл бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 lol yes! Maybe I can handle it this weekend.

Great list! I’m rereading Jane Eyre currently as my daughter reads it for school. Thoroughly enjoying the writing. And sorry that I’ve waited so long for a reread.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Aren't we lucky to have daughters yo share books with? I hope Jane Eyre works for your daughter.

@hollyc4624

Жыл бұрын

@@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 We are both loving it!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

@@hollyc4624 hurrah!

Such a wonderful video ❤️

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. Not long until Victober 2023 and an excuse to read more Victorian novels.

OMG! You two are adorable!!!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. We do love to chat about books together.

I love that you guys have decided to transform this into a tag! I had to exclude rereads from my video or I would have been massively overwhelmed, but I also like the idea of including a book that you've gained a greater appreciation of the second time around. And naturally, after watching this lovely video I'm compelled to read all the Victorian books you've mentioned which I haven't gotten around to yet. 🥰

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you didn't mind us pinching the idea to tagify it.

great idea ! im really excited to read more eliot, especially considering how much i loved middlemarch... i think im gonna try do this tag this month because it's great!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Ooh do Anna Marie. I'd love to see your five.

I’m reading Bleak House right now too and I am just adoring it! Definitely a highlight of my Victober this year.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

I could have guessed you'd love it too ☺️

I need to catch up on more Roz and Tilly videos, you too are such a joy to watch together! I’m yet to read Adam Bede and Olive although am looking forward to both but you have some of my favorites on both your lists. Vanity Fair in particular is one of the few books I’ve read three times- when Tilly said she was swapping Cranford for it I wanted to shout “no!” - although I adore Cranford too. The only one that’s isn’t a favorite is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall but I’ve only read it once so perhaps a reread would change that 🤔and yes Tilly, a video on best dogs in Victorian novels would be fabulous- I vote for Diogenes in Dombey and Son’

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like I need to try Vanity Fair again and you should revisit The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I wish Tilly lived closer so we could do more videos together but I really enjoyed meeting the new dog on this visit.

Really a lovely conversation and books, ladies.💗

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Deea. We do love to chat books!

Great video! I wasn’t at all surprised to see George Eliot. Hope Tilly loves Bleak House as much as I do. 💛

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

I am predictable about Eliot. Bleak House is just so good too. I finished David Copperfield at the weekend and it was good but Bleak House is better.

Middlemarch was wonderful!!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

No argument with that 👌

I appreciate the advice on where to start with George Eliot. I recall you mentioning Romola as a friend recommended that one to me, and I still haven't got around to reading it. This video might've made me reconsider heading back to Bleak House somewhat sooner than I originally planned - after all 300 pages isn't really too far into that novel to go back and start again. I'll take a look at my reading journal and see which books I think would be my five from five years.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

I really do think Bleak House is worth the time. The way Dickens switches between Esther's first person sections and the omniscient narrator is brilliant I think. I look forward to hearing your five if you get to the tag.

Of course there are multiple Eliot’s in this video!!! 😂 What a lovely video. Thanks for the tag! 🥰

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Of course indeed! I'm stuck into Janet's Repentance now too.

I appreciate the Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend love here, and Trollope of course 😁. Olive is such an interesting novel, too, and I am loving discovering more by Dinah Craik.

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

There's quite a bit of Katie-love too. You have been very motivating for us both 😘

Oh, a Victorian tag, fabulous! And thank you very much for tagging me!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

Tilly and I had fun. Look forward to your five if you get to it.

Thanks for the advice on where to start with George Eliot. I'm so intimidated by her, yet I so want to read her novels. Silas Marner it is, then! Not this Victober, though, but I hope to read it next year (before October, preferably). I have The Lifted Veil on this year's TBR and will probably read it, but I see many people didn't like that one. However, even if I don't like it, I'm not going to judge Eliot based on this story only. I'm currently reading Olive and quite enjoying it. :)

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

I am just starting to work through Eliot's shorter fiction now I have read all the novels. I am hesitant about The Lifted Veil.

I just finished Far from the Madding Crowd. Yes! I read a lot!!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

You are having a great Victober I think.

I love "Cranford" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". I hope to read "Silas Marner" this month for Victober :)

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy Silas Marner. All three are favourite books of mine although I might like Agnes Grey even better than The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Our mutual friend I’m reading now

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

😀

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Жыл бұрын

I fluctuate between Our Mutual Friend and Bleak House for which is my favourite Dickens novel.

I’ve been reading the Victorians since finishing the Russian classics.