I recently just discovered her channel and sad to hear this news. Loved her videos and literary insights.
@HkFinn832 күн бұрын
‘Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure…Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?’
@elliotleitner98472 күн бұрын
Wow wow wow 😢 I can’t tell you how torn up this makes me. I had taken a break from KZread and I went back today to watch her last three to get me excited for her knew one. I couldn’t imagine it would be this! Loved Jennifer like I knew her personally. She was so smart, clever, insightful, and cozy to listen to. I’m so glad she decided to share herself with us here on this community and I hope she is in Paradisio with her favorite poet! Lots of love and condolences.
@maryfilippou66674 күн бұрын
Jennifer and her clear and lively deliveries will always be missed! So glad you still have them up, though it saddens me she's gone and we know so little time was left. Perhaps God suggested she do these videos, time and work though they added to her days, so we could all and especially her wonderful mother who raised such a spectacular daughter, could have these keepsakes for a long while yet. She was just So enjoyable and probing, delving into these books.
@Abuamina0015 күн бұрын
I would add "Death and the Dervish" by Mese Selimovic and "Hadji Murad" by Leo Tolstoy. Absolute gems.
@WorthlessWinner6 күн бұрын
The problem with suetonius as a first way to read about rome is that he doesn't give too many details about the life of the emporors, it's more about their character. Dio might be the best place to start? I don't get why suetonius is bashed for using hear-say, when tacitus uses it just as much!
@limwenredleaf6 күн бұрын
I love love love you and your videos. RIP JENNIFER❤❤❤❤😭😭😭😭
@limwenredleaf6 күн бұрын
My man, Richard
@PlutoMagnus7 күн бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@katiekojali78727 күн бұрын
I only found Jennifer's videos last night and felt so excited to binge all of them. This is heartbreaking. Rest in peace and love to her family and friends.
@limwenredleaf7 күн бұрын
I want to be like you
@BrookeReadsBooks3338 күн бұрын
Today is 6/7/24, and it’s a rainy, thundering day in NY and I thought of Jen. Listening to her soothing voice… I miss her which seems silly for someone who never met her. But she was such a constant in my weeks/months/years.. 🌧️🤍
@davidrichards989810 күн бұрын
I probably restarted the book 5 to 10 times. I eventually completed it in 1994. 30 years later nudges like your review starts my brain wandering down paths I rarely venture. Mind opening in a slow way rather than mind blowing. The whale, existence, the sea. Everything is bigger than man on his perceived throne of dominion and power is not in winning the battle but knowing our place in the unmeasurable void be it the vast oceans, empty space or our neglected minds.
@robrobbins10 күн бұрын
I recently read "Shelley's Cenci: Scorpions Ringed With Fire" by Stuart Curran. He makes a good case for the play being more suited for the stage than you might think. But I am currently studying the work of William Butler Yeats. He was heavily influenced by Shelley. I have started to read "Yeats and Shelley" by George Bornstein. I still have a long way to go in reading Shelley's work. A few things have really impressed me so far. In the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" he dismisses as "frail spells" all attempts by religious notions to record the Spirit of Beauty. I thought that was quite bold! It seems you have to acquaint yourself with Neoplatonicism to really get his metaphysics (and that of Yeats) so this will be a major project.
@limwenredleaf10 күн бұрын
Oh, I really love your opinions and just everything that you recommend. Rip Jennifer⭐⭐❤❤❤❤
@tommy206410 күн бұрын
Thank you for this, it was really nice listening to your suggestions
@KindomChums13 күн бұрын
Great content here!
@JamiBond00914 күн бұрын
This just popped up on my recommendations. Miss you so much Jennifer. 🤍
@secretgardentribe922015 күн бұрын
Thanks for your recap. I read Confessions a year or two ago.
@TheLinguistsLibrary16 күн бұрын
I'm trying to make a video about this book but I feel so intimidated. Thank you for this
@drhyshek16 күн бұрын
I just love her! Rest in peace girl.
@waziotter17 күн бұрын
I didn’t realise that Dickens had done the tie-in novelisation of the Muppets’ Christmas Carol. I’d always assumed he had been dead a long time by then. You learn something new every day!
@annedixon760917 күн бұрын
I want to read the count of Monte Cristo
@alkirehomevideos17 күн бұрын
Stumbled upon your channel as I am about to start reading Dante’s Inferno and wanted some context prior to my journey. From your Inferno video I was then recommended this video. HAD to comment because I too was a HUGE Lost fan and back in high school when it was still airing made it a goal of mine to read every book mentioned in it! Didn’t get anywhere close haha but might someday. Had never run into someone with the exact same niche Lost themed goal! lol
@janeturner906418 күн бұрын
So sad there won't be any more of these: I miss Jennifer's wide-ranging insights so much.
@scasey196018 күн бұрын
Thanks for a great commentary. Modern media is doomed
@drhyshek19 күн бұрын
So she was sick.
@paradiseofexiles874520 күн бұрын
Ciao Jennifer, I'm a guide in Florence. Dante was exiled in 1302 never to return to his native city. The Loggia dei Lanzi was constructed in the 1370s-1380s, so he would not have seen this structure. 😉
@OficinaProsperar21 күн бұрын
Hello, how are you? Great review and great work! If I may, I would like to make a recommendation. My wife is a translator and recently translated a renowned book of Brazilian classic gothic literature called "Night at the Tavern" by Álvares de Azevedo (one of Brazil's great artists, who never saw his work published as he died very young, at the age of 20). If you would like to read it, it is available on Kindle Unlimited and has strong influences from Lord Byron. Thank you and success with your channel!
@OficinaProsperar21 күн бұрын
Hello, how are you? Great review and great work! If I may, I would like to make a recommendation. My wife is a translator and recently translated a renowned book of Brazilian classic gothic literature called "Night at the Tavern" by Álvares de Azevedo (one of Brazil's great artists, who never saw his work published as he died very young, at the age of 20). If you would like to read it, it is available on Kindle Unlimited and has strong influences from Lord Byron. Thank you and success with your channel!
@thescribe41322 күн бұрын
I am here very late to this, but I can’t even begin to express how sorry I am for your loss. Jeniffer is one the personalities that pushed me into literature early in my life and I will be forever indebted to her for that. Her love for the classics and her beautiful spirit inspired me to read and write. Thank you so much for raising such a wonderful woman. I am completely shocked to discover that she’s gone….
@justsomeone840823 күн бұрын
❤
@Sueellenmschke24 күн бұрын
I’ve only found Jennifer since she passed, but what a wonderful trove of treasures her videos are. I will probably watch all of these multiple times. I’m so grateful her video showed up on my algorithm!
@TheLinguistsLibrary26 күн бұрын
Rome is my favorite city. I've just added The Marble Faun to my cart, thank you so much, I did not know of this novel.
@charlottedavies546127 күн бұрын
Oh no😢 i loved clytemnestra lol
@RaeAnnaVMusic28 күн бұрын
Great insight! You answered a lot of my questions
@IkeMann10029 күн бұрын
Plutarch was not a Roman historian. He was Greek from Chaeronea. Greece was under Roman occupation at the time. At some point Plutarch received Roman citizenship.
@pattubeАй бұрын
1. My favorite is the Mandelbaum translation. 😊 It's blank verse. The World of Dante uses his translation as their base English translation. So one can read it online. I also have the Everyman's Library edition which is a beautifully crafted hardback that's worth owning. Everyman's Library books are almost always excellent editions of the classics. Just superb quality in terms of look and feel. 2. Same with Longfellow, he's available everywhere online. Longfellow was of course an amazing poet in his own right, and a scholar and a professor at Harvard University back in the 19th century. His translation of Dante is itself a work of art. I believe it was the first major American English translation of Dante's Commedia. Well worth reading. 3. Musa is a good choice too. I find him simple and clear to follow with an understated elegance. He's not my favorite, but I certainly wouldn't begrudge anyone if they enjoy Musa. I disagree with some of his notes (e.g. his psychoanalysis of Dante's motives in writing about Beatrice). But overall he's fine. 4. Hollander is available through the Princeton Dante Project. It's a serviceable translation in free verse, and I find the free verse can be a bit jarring or too abrupt at times. For better *and* worse, it's very much a literal or word for word or formally equivalent translation. But at the cost of literary beauty, at least to my ears. It comes with a tremendous amount of helps, super detailed notes, almost overwhelmingly so, which I imagine would be great for dedicated study. 5. I'm afraid same goes for Kirkpatrick. It's a good but not outstanding translation. Kirkpatrick is at times a bit too vulgar for my tastes (e.g. using four letter words like "fig f-"). 6. I'm surprised Ciardi wasn't mentioned since he's very popular. His translation flows beautifully. It well echoes the "music" in Dante's terza rima. However I find Ciardi plays a bit too fast and loose with the meaning for my tastes; it isn't as faithful to the Italian (e.g. where Ulysses says "brothers" in Italian, Ciardi translates as "shipmates" which in context the brothers are indeed his shipmates but I'd have preferred to have a more literal translation in this case). Nevertheless one could do far worse than Ciardi for the first read-through of Dante. Ciardi is the people's choice. Still if given the choice I would prefer Mandelbaum for the first (and subsequent) read-through of Dante because I find Mandelbaum just as beautiful as Ciardi and he's more faithful to the underlying text than Ciardi. 7. There are other translations like Sayers, James, Pinsky, Carson, and Bang, and they each have some interesting or provocative or idiosyncratic takes - I especially enjoyed Pinsky though he only did Inferno I believe - but at best I think these should be reserved for reading after one has already read and is sufficiently familiar with Dante's Commedia in one of the earlier translations I've mentioned. 8. There are a couple of fine prose translations too. Of course, the prose form loses the poetic structure and all this entails, but it has its benefits like potential for fuller expression of meaning and livelier imagery and perhaps better pulling one into the story qua story and so forth. Durling is a wonderful modern prose translation. Also, a good thing about Durling is it comes with so many helpful notes and maps and so on. Not to mention the Italian is printed alongside the translation. So one can read the story like a novel but also read the Italian to hear the "music". 9. Although Durling is great, my favorite prose translation of the Commedia is an older one by Singleton. Singleton is a legendary Dante scholar and his translation still soars. His extensive commentary on Dante is often still cited today, it is still full of insight. 10. In a sense we're spoiled for choice in English when it comes to Dante. Of course, nothing beats the original Italian, which is surprisingly quite comprehensible if one knows modern Italian. It's not as wide as the divide is between, say, modern English and Shakespearean or Elizabethean English. Even though there is a wider time interval between modern Italian and the Italian or Dante's period than there is between modern English and Shakespeare, Italian as a language evidently hasn't evolved as dramatically (no pun intended) as English has evolved. So the Italian in Dante is certainly dated but not horribly so. And if one can read other Romance languages, such as Spanish or French, then learning Italian isn't a huge jump.
@HkFinn832 күн бұрын
Can you read Italian?
@pattube2 күн бұрын
@@HkFinn83 Yes, and I can speak Italian as well! 😊 I should add Kirkpatrick has grown on me. He sounds more like Dante filtered through Shakespeare. Quite a theatrical presentation. And another translation that's not been widely reviewed but which I purchased and have been dipping in and out of us J.G. Nichols. I very much enjoy Nichols. Not as much as Mandelbaum who remains my favorite, but Nichols is near the top, at least so far. Definitely worth a look!
@HkFinn83Күн бұрын
@@pattube did you learn from reading Dante?
@pattubeКүн бұрын
@@HkFinn83 Yes I have learned from reading Dante.
@HkFinn83Күн бұрын
I meant did you learn Italian from Dante
@judoman9006Ай бұрын
May she rest in peace. ❤
@Eudaimonia88Ай бұрын
Who is "Dahntay"?
@crotgbАй бұрын
Thanks for this video, I was going to get briggs but I don’t like the idea of modernising the language. I found Garnett amazing for Dostoyevsky by the way.
@BrookeReadsBooks333Ай бұрын
She is 100000% with her BOTM thoughts! I feel the same 🤍
@pokerchannel6991Ай бұрын
dude: I am going for the Maude, with a back up of the Briggs. If I am confused about something in Maude, I read the Briggs to clarify and then go back to Maude.
@VegasHermitАй бұрын
I miss her voice.
@PhilKelleyАй бұрын
I just found this channel today (May 4, 2024) and was delighted by her Revolutionary War book list. Then, I found this video and I am greatly saddened by everyone's loss. Jennifer had so much potential. To watch even one video was such a blessing. May she rest in peace, and may God give his peace and comfort to her family and friends in their bereavement.
@PhilKelleyАй бұрын
I knew, when you said in your introduction, that your favorites rotate (I have a real hard time with "favorites"), and that one of those favorites was The War of the Roses, I was going to like this channel. After reviewing my military history bookcase, I realized I did not have a comprehensive history of the American Revolution, I started searching for recommendations. i have been reading about the period since I was a child, reading everything I could find in the school library (there was a period when the Swamp Fox was my favorite character of War). Thank you for your comprehensive list. It is quite a treat that you include historical fiction, which is one of my favorite genres. Thank you. In terms of books read, I have and am rereading Joseph Ellis's Founding Brethren. A book I would highly recommend is Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly. Relevant to the topic is her chapter "The British Lose America". The chapter is an investigation of why the British government behaved towards the colonies the way they did, which is one of the four important historical events that illustrate folly in government decision-making.
@BookLover19Ай бұрын
How I miss Jennifer 😞 I watch her videos over and over again. I hope her mother knows how loved she was and how much we miss her ❤️
@EmersSarahАй бұрын
I think of Jennifer often and miss hearing her thoughts and recommendations on this channel. I am continuing to read books that she has enjoyed and finding some new favorites myself! I am just now finishing and thoroughly enjoying Frances Burney's "Evelina", a classic I had not come across until Jennifer spoke of it in a video. Next, I hope to read some Wilkie Collins, also spoken of highly by Jennifer. I appreciate the influence she continues to have, by way of this channel. My imagination is brighter and wider because of Jennifer sharing herself with the world. Much love and peace to her family and friends. I am so very sorry for your great and unexpected loss.
@BrynjaLivesАй бұрын
So many more things on my tbr, now. You should tag your uploads with mother academia and Charlotte Mason.
@alexduggan68Ай бұрын
We Killed Stephen Ward is an interesting book about the early sixties in England.
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I recently just discovered her channel and sad to hear this news. Loved her videos and literary insights.
‘Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure…Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?’
Wow wow wow 😢 I can’t tell you how torn up this makes me. I had taken a break from KZread and I went back today to watch her last three to get me excited for her knew one. I couldn’t imagine it would be this! Loved Jennifer like I knew her personally. She was so smart, clever, insightful, and cozy to listen to. I’m so glad she decided to share herself with us here on this community and I hope she is in Paradisio with her favorite poet! Lots of love and condolences.
Jennifer and her clear and lively deliveries will always be missed! So glad you still have them up, though it saddens me she's gone and we know so little time was left. Perhaps God suggested she do these videos, time and work though they added to her days, so we could all and especially her wonderful mother who raised such a spectacular daughter, could have these keepsakes for a long while yet. She was just So enjoyable and probing, delving into these books.
I would add "Death and the Dervish" by Mese Selimovic and "Hadji Murad" by Leo Tolstoy. Absolute gems.
The problem with suetonius as a first way to read about rome is that he doesn't give too many details about the life of the emporors, it's more about their character. Dio might be the best place to start? I don't get why suetonius is bashed for using hear-say, when tacitus uses it just as much!
I love love love you and your videos. RIP JENNIFER❤❤❤❤😭😭😭😭
My man, Richard
Thank you 🙏
I only found Jennifer's videos last night and felt so excited to binge all of them. This is heartbreaking. Rest in peace and love to her family and friends.
I want to be like you
Today is 6/7/24, and it’s a rainy, thundering day in NY and I thought of Jen. Listening to her soothing voice… I miss her which seems silly for someone who never met her. But she was such a constant in my weeks/months/years.. 🌧️🤍
I probably restarted the book 5 to 10 times. I eventually completed it in 1994. 30 years later nudges like your review starts my brain wandering down paths I rarely venture. Mind opening in a slow way rather than mind blowing. The whale, existence, the sea. Everything is bigger than man on his perceived throne of dominion and power is not in winning the battle but knowing our place in the unmeasurable void be it the vast oceans, empty space or our neglected minds.
I recently read "Shelley's Cenci: Scorpions Ringed With Fire" by Stuart Curran. He makes a good case for the play being more suited for the stage than you might think. But I am currently studying the work of William Butler Yeats. He was heavily influenced by Shelley. I have started to read "Yeats and Shelley" by George Bornstein. I still have a long way to go in reading Shelley's work. A few things have really impressed me so far. In the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" he dismisses as "frail spells" all attempts by religious notions to record the Spirit of Beauty. I thought that was quite bold! It seems you have to acquaint yourself with Neoplatonicism to really get his metaphysics (and that of Yeats) so this will be a major project.
Oh, I really love your opinions and just everything that you recommend. Rip Jennifer⭐⭐❤❤❤❤
Thank you for this, it was really nice listening to your suggestions
Great content here!
This just popped up on my recommendations. Miss you so much Jennifer. 🤍
Thanks for your recap. I read Confessions a year or two ago.
I'm trying to make a video about this book but I feel so intimidated. Thank you for this
I just love her! Rest in peace girl.
I didn’t realise that Dickens had done the tie-in novelisation of the Muppets’ Christmas Carol. I’d always assumed he had been dead a long time by then. You learn something new every day!
I want to read the count of Monte Cristo
Stumbled upon your channel as I am about to start reading Dante’s Inferno and wanted some context prior to my journey. From your Inferno video I was then recommended this video. HAD to comment because I too was a HUGE Lost fan and back in high school when it was still airing made it a goal of mine to read every book mentioned in it! Didn’t get anywhere close haha but might someday. Had never run into someone with the exact same niche Lost themed goal! lol
So sad there won't be any more of these: I miss Jennifer's wide-ranging insights so much.
Thanks for a great commentary. Modern media is doomed
So she was sick.
Ciao Jennifer, I'm a guide in Florence. Dante was exiled in 1302 never to return to his native city. The Loggia dei Lanzi was constructed in the 1370s-1380s, so he would not have seen this structure. 😉
Hello, how are you? Great review and great work! If I may, I would like to make a recommendation. My wife is a translator and recently translated a renowned book of Brazilian classic gothic literature called "Night at the Tavern" by Álvares de Azevedo (one of Brazil's great artists, who never saw his work published as he died very young, at the age of 20). If you would like to read it, it is available on Kindle Unlimited and has strong influences from Lord Byron. Thank you and success with your channel!
Hello, how are you? Great review and great work! If I may, I would like to make a recommendation. My wife is a translator and recently translated a renowned book of Brazilian classic gothic literature called "Night at the Tavern" by Álvares de Azevedo (one of Brazil's great artists, who never saw his work published as he died very young, at the age of 20). If you would like to read it, it is available on Kindle Unlimited and has strong influences from Lord Byron. Thank you and success with your channel!
I am here very late to this, but I can’t even begin to express how sorry I am for your loss. Jeniffer is one the personalities that pushed me into literature early in my life and I will be forever indebted to her for that. Her love for the classics and her beautiful spirit inspired me to read and write. Thank you so much for raising such a wonderful woman. I am completely shocked to discover that she’s gone….
❤
I’ve only found Jennifer since she passed, but what a wonderful trove of treasures her videos are. I will probably watch all of these multiple times. I’m so grateful her video showed up on my algorithm!
Rome is my favorite city. I've just added The Marble Faun to my cart, thank you so much, I did not know of this novel.
Oh no😢 i loved clytemnestra lol
Great insight! You answered a lot of my questions
Plutarch was not a Roman historian. He was Greek from Chaeronea. Greece was under Roman occupation at the time. At some point Plutarch received Roman citizenship.
1. My favorite is the Mandelbaum translation. 😊 It's blank verse. The World of Dante uses his translation as their base English translation. So one can read it online. I also have the Everyman's Library edition which is a beautifully crafted hardback that's worth owning. Everyman's Library books are almost always excellent editions of the classics. Just superb quality in terms of look and feel. 2. Same with Longfellow, he's available everywhere online. Longfellow was of course an amazing poet in his own right, and a scholar and a professor at Harvard University back in the 19th century. His translation of Dante is itself a work of art. I believe it was the first major American English translation of Dante's Commedia. Well worth reading. 3. Musa is a good choice too. I find him simple and clear to follow with an understated elegance. He's not my favorite, but I certainly wouldn't begrudge anyone if they enjoy Musa. I disagree with some of his notes (e.g. his psychoanalysis of Dante's motives in writing about Beatrice). But overall he's fine. 4. Hollander is available through the Princeton Dante Project. It's a serviceable translation in free verse, and I find the free verse can be a bit jarring or too abrupt at times. For better *and* worse, it's very much a literal or word for word or formally equivalent translation. But at the cost of literary beauty, at least to my ears. It comes with a tremendous amount of helps, super detailed notes, almost overwhelmingly so, which I imagine would be great for dedicated study. 5. I'm afraid same goes for Kirkpatrick. It's a good but not outstanding translation. Kirkpatrick is at times a bit too vulgar for my tastes (e.g. using four letter words like "fig f-"). 6. I'm surprised Ciardi wasn't mentioned since he's very popular. His translation flows beautifully. It well echoes the "music" in Dante's terza rima. However I find Ciardi plays a bit too fast and loose with the meaning for my tastes; it isn't as faithful to the Italian (e.g. where Ulysses says "brothers" in Italian, Ciardi translates as "shipmates" which in context the brothers are indeed his shipmates but I'd have preferred to have a more literal translation in this case). Nevertheless one could do far worse than Ciardi for the first read-through of Dante. Ciardi is the people's choice. Still if given the choice I would prefer Mandelbaum for the first (and subsequent) read-through of Dante because I find Mandelbaum just as beautiful as Ciardi and he's more faithful to the underlying text than Ciardi. 7. There are other translations like Sayers, James, Pinsky, Carson, and Bang, and they each have some interesting or provocative or idiosyncratic takes - I especially enjoyed Pinsky though he only did Inferno I believe - but at best I think these should be reserved for reading after one has already read and is sufficiently familiar with Dante's Commedia in one of the earlier translations I've mentioned. 8. There are a couple of fine prose translations too. Of course, the prose form loses the poetic structure and all this entails, but it has its benefits like potential for fuller expression of meaning and livelier imagery and perhaps better pulling one into the story qua story and so forth. Durling is a wonderful modern prose translation. Also, a good thing about Durling is it comes with so many helpful notes and maps and so on. Not to mention the Italian is printed alongside the translation. So one can read the story like a novel but also read the Italian to hear the "music". 9. Although Durling is great, my favorite prose translation of the Commedia is an older one by Singleton. Singleton is a legendary Dante scholar and his translation still soars. His extensive commentary on Dante is often still cited today, it is still full of insight. 10. In a sense we're spoiled for choice in English when it comes to Dante. Of course, nothing beats the original Italian, which is surprisingly quite comprehensible if one knows modern Italian. It's not as wide as the divide is between, say, modern English and Shakespearean or Elizabethean English. Even though there is a wider time interval between modern Italian and the Italian or Dante's period than there is between modern English and Shakespeare, Italian as a language evidently hasn't evolved as dramatically (no pun intended) as English has evolved. So the Italian in Dante is certainly dated but not horribly so. And if one can read other Romance languages, such as Spanish or French, then learning Italian isn't a huge jump.
Can you read Italian?
@@HkFinn83 Yes, and I can speak Italian as well! 😊 I should add Kirkpatrick has grown on me. He sounds more like Dante filtered through Shakespeare. Quite a theatrical presentation. And another translation that's not been widely reviewed but which I purchased and have been dipping in and out of us J.G. Nichols. I very much enjoy Nichols. Not as much as Mandelbaum who remains my favorite, but Nichols is near the top, at least so far. Definitely worth a look!
@@pattube did you learn from reading Dante?
@@HkFinn83 Yes I have learned from reading Dante.
I meant did you learn Italian from Dante
May she rest in peace. ❤
Who is "Dahntay"?
Thanks for this video, I was going to get briggs but I don’t like the idea of modernising the language. I found Garnett amazing for Dostoyevsky by the way.
She is 100000% with her BOTM thoughts! I feel the same 🤍
dude: I am going for the Maude, with a back up of the Briggs. If I am confused about something in Maude, I read the Briggs to clarify and then go back to Maude.
I miss her voice.
I just found this channel today (May 4, 2024) and was delighted by her Revolutionary War book list. Then, I found this video and I am greatly saddened by everyone's loss. Jennifer had so much potential. To watch even one video was such a blessing. May she rest in peace, and may God give his peace and comfort to her family and friends in their bereavement.
I knew, when you said in your introduction, that your favorites rotate (I have a real hard time with "favorites"), and that one of those favorites was The War of the Roses, I was going to like this channel. After reviewing my military history bookcase, I realized I did not have a comprehensive history of the American Revolution, I started searching for recommendations. i have been reading about the period since I was a child, reading everything I could find in the school library (there was a period when the Swamp Fox was my favorite character of War). Thank you for your comprehensive list. It is quite a treat that you include historical fiction, which is one of my favorite genres. Thank you. In terms of books read, I have and am rereading Joseph Ellis's Founding Brethren. A book I would highly recommend is Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly. Relevant to the topic is her chapter "The British Lose America". The chapter is an investigation of why the British government behaved towards the colonies the way they did, which is one of the four important historical events that illustrate folly in government decision-making.
How I miss Jennifer 😞 I watch her videos over and over again. I hope her mother knows how loved she was and how much we miss her ❤️
I think of Jennifer often and miss hearing her thoughts and recommendations on this channel. I am continuing to read books that she has enjoyed and finding some new favorites myself! I am just now finishing and thoroughly enjoying Frances Burney's "Evelina", a classic I had not come across until Jennifer spoke of it in a video. Next, I hope to read some Wilkie Collins, also spoken of highly by Jennifer. I appreciate the influence she continues to have, by way of this channel. My imagination is brighter and wider because of Jennifer sharing herself with the world. Much love and peace to her family and friends. I am so very sorry for your great and unexpected loss.
So many more things on my tbr, now. You should tag your uploads with mother academia and Charlotte Mason.
We Killed Stephen Ward is an interesting book about the early sixties in England.