What classics are you planning on reading this spring? ⬇

Your passion for reading is infectious 😊

It’s wonderful to see you back and thanks for offering some super suggestions for springtime reading. David Copperfield is a superb book, but at the moment I’m reading The Old Curiosity Shop, which is great, too. Yes, Hardy and Frost are totally appropriate for this time of year and a video of Thomas Hardy’s poems would be interesting. Katie, of Book and Things, observed Hardy’s prose was nearly all written in the 19th century and his poetry in the 20th. I have no recommendations except Katie’s new book, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall-I’m almost finished with it, and it’s captivating, well written, and any other similar synonym you can name. Good to see you, Valerie!

I love your seasonal classics recommendations. Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing are my favourites. Ophelia is very spring. Frankenstein does definitely feel spring to me, too. Frankenstein is one of my favourites, I still haven't read Paradise Lost. I always read Jane Austen in spring and it makes me happy. The Keira Knightley one is my preferred one. Oooh, Thomas Hard poems video would be so good. New Hampshire turns a hundred this year (the one with The Road Not Taken). I always want to be under a tree reasing a poem, that would be my ideal state.

Thomas Hardy is one of my most beloved writers. His nature descriptions are truly incomparable! Thank you for highlighting him. How I would have loved to have known him!

Perfect timing !!! I'm half way through David Copperfield right now, and am loving it. I think Frankenstein is a wonderful recommendation... to remind us that nature is best left to what nature does best, bringing things back to life every year and not be the humans that force creation ! I'm not sure if it's in Canada only, but April is recognized as poetry month... fitting for spring indeed. Great to see you again !!!

~Great to see Marquez here!

_Hamlet_ I've read and seen performed countless times, and it keeps on giving. Always worth the time and effort! I'm currently reading Hardy's _The Return of the Native._ (more of a fall/winter book, though) Robert Frost, my favorite poem: _Nature's first green is gold / Her hardest hue to hold_

I DID appreciate the unhinged recommendations haha. I would add to your list: All Creature Great and Small by James Herriot, the Anne of Green Gables books or really anything by LM Montgomery, I Capture the Castle, and East of Eden.

I've been wanting to read another bildungsroman ever since I fell in love with jane eyre so i'm bumping david copperfield up on my tbr!💓

Nature poetry in spring certainly does the trick.I think listening to music that evokes similar feelings is equally rewarding.There was a wonderful songwriter who has that wistful poetic quality to his songs,and in fact references Browning,Keats and Wordsworth in his song Home Thoughts From Abroad.

Intriguing suggestions. I'll have to give 'A Hundred Years of Solitude' a try this year; but I'm looking to the first day of reading in the sunshine with some P. G. Wodehouse to hand; 'Uncle Fred in the Springtime' probably. (It's the time of year a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of pig-napping.)

as soon as you said hamlet i knew you were gonna reference the ophelia painting LOL

As soon as you said Hamlet, I immediately thought of Ophelia and flowers so I think you’re right on there.

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I loved Hamlet! I just finished Othello and I loved that one as well; I have to do a presentation about it so I'm talking about Desdemona's handkerchief as a feminist symbol and its really cool getting to study the text so closely.