What books did Jenny make you read? I want to make a video on this topic!

@clarepotter7584

5 ай бұрын

I read 'The Villa' and 'Briefly A Delicious Life'. I have plenty more recommendations of hers I want to get to.

@shannon4521

5 ай бұрын

I started reading Wilkie Collins because of her and now he’s my favourite Victorian author ❤

@knittingbooksetc.2810

5 ай бұрын

I've been binge watching Jenny's videos and my list is growing and growing. The way she speaks about books is so compelling! But I'm forever grateful for her videos on Dante. This has had a huge impact on me and my life. I'm going to read The Villa with you all in February. Unfortunately I don't have any of Jenny's messages on Voxer. Just like you, I had the thought of needing to talk to her. I am an INTJ-A and a 5.

@blane1814

5 ай бұрын

The classics

@leslecturesdemarie7994

5 ай бұрын

As far as I can remember I read The woman in white, The Inferno, Daughter of the Forest, Frankenstein and Bunny because of Jenny ❤

I wish more people would talk about Jennifer. It doesn’t feel real. I feel as if she is in Italy somewhere making a vlog for us and I’m waiting for her to put out a video. Thank you for making the time to talk about her. To honor her. Thank you🩷

I too plan to read like Jenny all year. I plan to read Wilke Collins in October. The Ballad of the White Horse in November. This is a lovely remembrance.

Christy, i hope you know that you're making grieving and celebrating Jenny's life such an inclusive and supportive process with these tyoes of videos!! I thank you from the bottom of my heart❤ and also, more pls😊

“I can fix him” 😂 that is so funny! I really wish I knew her better. Love you Christy ❤ this was the most beautiful tribute to her. I am really glad you decided to post this 🤗

@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace

5 ай бұрын

Hahaha I think you two would have loved each other's senses of humor 🥹 We will all hang out in heaven for SURE. I love you, too, SO much!! ❤️

This is a lovely tribute! I appreciated learning more about Jennifer.

I am going to read the Anglo Saxon books 📚 she suggested in her video next ❤❤❤

I am a recent fan of Jennifer. The announcement video was a total shock to me and the sadness has lingered. She influenced me by my seeking out books she spoke of. Her love of Richard III encouraged me to buy THE SUNNE IN SPLENDOUR. I have missed her posts and am saddened there will be no more. This honoring of her memory brings a smile to my face and a warmth to my heart. Thank you.

Beautiful and amazing video love it and I totally agree with you 100 percent I am going to try and go back through her old videos and pick some amazing and wonderful books 📚 for me to read ❤❤❤❤

Really made me smile to see the yall in the text thread ❤

I love hearing you talk about Jenny! I was her friend at church and it's so comforting to be able to come to the BookTube community and find comfort in the shared celebration of who she is. Sending you lots of love from her church family!!

What a lovely tribute. Jenny made me revisit books I had read years ago and had a fixed opinion about, to read them again with an open mind and maybe get more out of it or view them differently this time around. Her passion for these books rekindled my own and it was a gift I will treasure forever.

Christy, Thank you so much for posting Jennifer's memorial service. Social media is such a strange thing. You watch people and comment back and forth and feel like you know someone you've never met. Conversely I feel like I've lost someone I knew even though we never spoke. I still can't wrap my brain around the fact that she's gone and my heart breaks for her Mom. I'm glad Pam went to Rome with her recently. She was the first Booktuber I found years ago and my favorite. She'll be soooo missed by so many.

🥹♥️this was beautiful, Christy! I’m so glad you have such a wonderful friendship with Jenny to always treasure.

I'll miss her. I found her channel at about the same time as I found yours. And I loved her love of the classics. I used to enjoy the reading sprints - even if they were at ridiculous hours of the day for the UK. 🤣 I picked up a lot of books on her recommendations. I finished Dante's Vita Nuova today, which is my first Dante. It's the taster before I take on The Divine Comedy itself. I'm going to try and read as much Jennifer reading in February as possible. PS If you ever want to do a Zoom call let me know.

@clarepotter7584

5 ай бұрын

I'm such I lightweight, a UK playback watcher.

Good evening, Christy. I've been making youtube videos for ten years discussing comics. I did not think I'd become friends with anyone. That is not the case, of course. In the comic book community there have been several devastating losses these last few years, many were young like your friend, Jennifer. I wasn't close to any of them, but they were to many youtubers I knew. I did not know Jennifer, and up until recently didn't watch many booktubers, except those I was subscribed to like yourself, Noah, Silje, Tom, and a handful of others. But I knew who she was through your videos. Clearly she was a kind and inspiring individual who affected the lives of many people. Your tribute tonight was heartfelt. I am sorry for your loss, Christy, but what did Byron write about friendship, that it was love without wings. Best to you from Texas.

I love that you made this video❤❤

Thank you for this! I still can't wrap my mind around her sudden passing....

What a beautiful tribute! Thank you for sharing your memories of her. Jenny was a very inspirational and magnetic person and it’s obvious from the outpouring of love from you and others. She touched so many of us! She definitely influenced my reading. I would binge watch a bunch of her old videos and make lists of books to buy. It’s because of her I read Dante, Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists, and I beefed up my Ancient Roman History section. Coincidentally this fall I was reading Ravenna by Judith Herrin at the same time Jenny was. I didn’t know it when I started the book but found out when I watched her review video. I was thinking I need to comment and tell her about it! I wish I had been more in top of that. I though I had time to get around to it eventually. I was thinking the other day how so many of us with completely different reading tastes could read entirely different books and we would all be reading like Jenny! Isn’t that great!

Thank you so much for sharing these memories of Jennifer. You both clearly meant a lot to each other. She was fiercely intelligent, wickedly funny, and brought me so much joy. The most recent book I read because of Jenny was Big Swiss, which she said she rightfully thought I would enjoy because we shared an appreciation of unhinged women books. We also shared Interview with the Vampire as our favorite book. I read the following books due to Jenny: Romantic Outlaws, The Villa, Booth, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and I reread The Witching Hour because of her. I know there are more. I bought A special edition of Moby Dick in December with Jennifer in mind and will be reading it this year and picturing her at the beach devouring this novel.

This is such a special collection of memories... thank you so much for sharing, I feel like I got to know Jenny better just through hearing you talk about her in this video!

what a valuable collection of memories ⭐ thank you for sharing them with us. i think we all feel a little closer to Jenny now, i certainly do thanks to this video

I hadn’t been watching her for very long, but I already had a list of books about Napolean I want to get to because of her. I am glad you are able to talk about her on here and that all of you that knew her so well can share this with each other.

P.S. Thank you for doing this. I know it helps you, but it helps us too.🧡

This was lovely Christy. Thanks so much for sharing this. I wish I had the chance to know her better! I knew right away from her videos that she was a great person. ❤❤

Thank you for sharing this. I still really miss Jennifer and think of her often. I had already decided to do a deep dive into Ancient Lit this year due to her channel, and to read The Woman in White for the first time, too. At some point I want to read more epic poetry, which she also loved. She has left a hole in my life, there is no one like her.

Lovely video Christy! I also fell in love with her since the first video I saw. Immediately subscribed and watched every single video ❤️ I really identified with both her love of older classics and newer romantasy. I started reading medieval literature because of her (even if medieval wasn’t what she read the most, she inspired me to do so). I was already intrigued by Vikings history and she made me go deep into it 🤓 I keep forgetting to tag you in a similar video like this that I did where I talked about the ways she influenced my life 🥰 I’ll tag you so you can see it 🥰 (I’m an INFJ and a 6).

(Melanie here) I enjoyed your video and hearing about your experiences as an INFJ. I am an INTJ and finding Booktube has really helped me to "find my people!" as I've heard Kate Howe say :) Being a Christian also has been a great way to find things in common with others. I appreciate you talking about your anxiety. As an introvert, it can be a challenge to feel comfortable in a world mostly comprised of extroverts!

Such a nice tribute, thank you. Ive been listening on audio to her recommendations, especially right now unhinged women 😂. The Villa was great fun on audio. Thank you for talking about her. I really miss her videos. 😢

I was never close to Jenny as I am to u, I found Jennifer tru u. I can only imagine what u r going tru 🙏❤️

@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace

5 ай бұрын

💗 Thank you for your support, Tatiana.

This was lovely Christy, it made me sad but mostly made me smile, it was so great hearing your memories. I’m an ISFJ too 😉

@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace

5 ай бұрын

😭❤️ Thank you, Jo. I think we are all still raw. Always wonderful to find another ISFJ, though 😍

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For the longest time I thought her surname was Wilkins because of her wonderful southern accent that to my British ears sounded like Wilkins instead of 'welcome'.

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@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace

5 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️ Love you, friend!

first of all...love your make up and hair...Jennifer made me read more the early Gothic literature ( Anne Radcliffe, Horace Walpole)...i myself love Sensation novels so i try to read them all Jennifer also made me buy some Ancient Classics ( not all because i am not really into them i discovered that about myself) and i really want to find penny Dreadfuls!!!!!..like Varney the Vampire...but its so hard to find...but not giving up haha...but my Greatest love is Wilkie Collins and sensation novels Through you...i am with Jennifer...thank you for being so lovely

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Hi, Christy. I only ever had interactions with Jennifer in the Comments section of her channel, but still I felt her genuine interest in what her BookTube community had to say about her content. I've been going back to her older videos, and there's only one word for her (besides "authentic"): Jenny herself is a classic--what she has to say is interesting, relevant, and will stand the test of time! And, as a classic, she will only ever be present to me. If it can console you, as it does me, I will mention her words in the video on books to read before Dante's DC, re: his view of Beatrice: she was "too good to be in this world for long" (JB). That is exactly my feeling about Jennifer. What manner of sagacity can such a young person have if not because her intelligence and wisdom are guided by an old soul! But, I digress--I have some book suggestions, and a request: 1) "in no particular order" (JB): "Big Swiss" (from her unhinged woman reading journey), "Booth" (per Jenny, "a lightning strike moment for her"), and "Blue Lily, Lily Blue" ("this was formative for me"-JB); 2) would you consider adding a "If I Could Ask Jenny" thread to the "We Love Jenny" Discord space (or maybe somewhere else more appropriate) to answer some questions (only the appropriate ones of course!) that you might know the answer to? I often find that I regret not having spoken with a deceased friend or family member more often, or am frustrated that I can no longer ask my mother or sister a question that only they know the answer to. For example, I would have liked to ask Jenny more about her K-pop interests, or if she had any K-drama favourites; especially, since she liked cooking (or more baking), I wondered if she had ventured into trying Korean food (though most of it is spicy)--tteokbokki, jjigae, etc. I even wondered if she was into Korean beauty products (they're excellent!). Anyway, you get the idea. In sum, I'll end with one final quote from Jenny's wisdom font (I'm actually thinking of creating a Commonplace Book of Jennyisms!): ""Human reason, it can only take you so far; eventually, you have to give in, and have a little faith". Jenny inspires me to want to give in and have a little faith.🧡

I made a video today mentioning the February Memorial month for Jennifer. I hope it helps to spread the word. I'm new though and it probably won't get too many views, but I will be reading something she loved in participation.

Oh my gosh I always wondered why she liked Napoleon 😅 Richard the Third, I get, but Napoleon!? Now it all makes sense 😊

Unusual people are attractive BECAUSE they are serially obsessed and stand out in comparison to the so many who are just going through the motions while searching for cues from others. She clearly knew what she liked and had VERY broad interests and opinions. I'd never heard of JB until some book tubers that I check in from time to time mentioned that she had unexpectedly died. I've watched a number of her videos since, and I get it. Yeah, she was an original. Was she a lesbian, a feminist, a Christian, a pro- (or anti-) vaxer, someone who loved Italy, a few or many of the above? I have no idea, nor do I need to know. BUT, she was quite well read for her age, she did put out compelling content, she had a lovely voice, and a puckish sense of humor. The community is diminished by her departure.

If you want someone to respectfully argue with I'm an antitheist leftist!