MIDDLE MARCH READALONG! I’m going to be hosting #Middlemarchalong in July. I hope you’ll join in ❤️

Penguin Classics are the drug I want to consume everyday.

Anna Karenina is like my top 2 favourite novel of all times with my favourite character ever (Levin) 🖤 is so beautiful and is worth the length of the novel... there is something about Russian literature that I can’t put into words, but is like food for thought and food for the soul 🙏 Ps. I’m so glad that you’re giving us more video content. I’ve always liked to hear your thoughts on books 🙌

I’ve been following you for five years - I graduated with a English lit degree! Long time fan 💕

Ahhhh I too read The Turn of the Screw at uni and I loved it! The makers of the Netflix show, the Haunting of Hill House, are making a new show based on it and I’m excited! Loved this tag Claire, I might do it myself! Xx

Middlemarch is my favourite classic 😍 I have the same PEL edition as you do and totally agree that it's beautiful. I was so excited when I realised my favourite classic novel was in my favourite colour 💕 really appreciated the distinction you made between enjoying a classic and finding it intellectually stimulating! What a great tag!

Middlemarch is one of my all-time favorite classics ❤️ I'd strongly recommend it!

To Kill A Mockingbird and Bleak House are both wonderful and hope you enjoy them when you get there! Great tag, thanks for sharing your thoughts!

sooo many beautiful editions

I love classics, all the usual Austen, Dickens, Brontes. I have started to read Russian classics, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky was amazing. At school (in England) we read to Kill a Mockingbird at GCSE. Now at the school I work at TKAMB is a Year 9 book. Currently I am rereading Emma. My next book may be House of the Dead by Dostoevsky. Anna Karenina is waiting too.

My fav. film adaptations are: Our Mutual Friend (1998), Persuasion and Pride and P (both 1995), To Kill a Mockingbird (best opening sequence and music ever!), and the Timothy Dalton/Zeland Clarke Jane Eyre ❤️❤️❤️

Picked “Room with a View” for my book club on Wednesday. And read Passage and Angels at school. A gift!

aaah I still need to read To Kill A Mocking Bird too! Anna Karenina is so wonderful 🥰 I hope you continue to enjoy it! great video

Lady Audley’s Secret was surprisingly good. Bleak House is one of favorite Dickens. And, oh my, Anna Karenina! A truly outstanding novel.

I haven’t read To Kill a Mockingbird yet as well: need to do it. Wives and Daughters is beautiful book, hope you enjoy it. I used to watch the adaptations before the book previously and am now reading them after too!!

What fun it was to read The Woman in White for the first time. I envy you for having that experience ahead of you!

"(Forster) is one of my favourite authors. And I'm very aware that he's dead." 😂 I completely agree though, he's such an amazing writer and I don't want to run out of his works - I'm on #3. Also Lady Audley's Secret is so good. I read it earlier this year and couldn't put it down. I'm not sure if it was serialised, but it reads so fast and it's so engaging. And I started Anna Karenina a few days ago! So many good books in this video.

This was wonderful Claire! The PEL editions are my favorites too! Online collecting them and I've started collecting the Penguin Clothbounds for classics that aren't available in PEL since they are also designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith and are like the fraternal twins to the PELs 😆. I am really looking forward to your thoughts on some of these! I had to read To Kill a Mockingbird for school (I live in the US) and it was one of the few school assigned books that I completely loved. Also Woman in White is one of my favorite books and I just read Bleak House for the first time last November and it is now my favorite Dickens of the 5 I've read (and for it to kick David Copperfield out of first place says a lot!). I don't remember whether you enjoy buddy reads or not but I was wondering if you would like to buddy read the Longest Journey and/or Middlemarch? Those have both been sitting on my classics TBR for a long time and I think having a buddy to read them with would be so fun 😀. When you mentioned that you used to watch the adaptations then read the books, and now you want to read the books before seeing the adaptations, I had the exact same reading change I think. I used to watch the adaptations to see if I liked the story then read the story and sometimes I still do that but often now I need to read the book first. I completely agree with so many of your adaptation favorites, North and South is my favorite mini series and the 09 Emma is in my top 5 and the 08 Tess is probably in my top 10 as is Pride and Prejudice😆. Wonderful video as always! Glad you and Ben are staying safe🙂.

Hi Clare - for your Q&A- “your favourite type of music/ band/ instrument?” Thank you!

I am 100% going to get Shirley. Like, right this second.

Woman in White!!! So good! Loved Wives and Daughters, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Middlemarch as well. Anna K was good but not my fav. 📚

The TV adaptations are really good 👍

Kudos to you!

I would say you'll love To Kill a Mocking Bird, but that's just my wishful thinking hahaha I do, because one of my favorite styles tend to have The Great Depression as background, sooo... hehehe But give it a try :D

Great vid. Totally agree about the need for owning many different classic editions! And about Middlemarch... I know I would and should love it, but can never really get into it. Maybe it's just about needing the right book at the right time/season of life ...🤷 I was hoping you might be able to help me on something... I really want to read Daniel Deronda (after loving the quote from it in Normal People). But jeez, I cannot find a 'pretty' edition! Do you have a copy of it - if not, which one would you get?

this was nice :) made me wanna do the tag tbh!! i just wondered what books you would suggest in regard to the nascent trade unionism movement [tho i will b checking out shirley!]? i've read north and south an was a bit disappointed tbh so just wondered if you had other potentials! (but i do love the bbc adaptation!) also i love wives & daughters!!! it's so fun!

Hello. Might I offer a suggestion? Read the Moonstone first. Woman in White is interminable and not that great.

You look like a character from period novell

Wives and Daughters was good but she died while writing it so it just ends. You're just left hanging.

The worse written classic imo is the catcher in the rye