Spoiler Free Reading Vlog | Shakespeare, Dickens and Book Haul
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Let's talk about Elizabethan SNL skits (aka Shakespeare) and Dickens the rockstar.™️
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Mentioned:
@crescentpages
A Passage to India - E.M Forster
Culture and Imperialism - Edward Said
Love’s Labor’s Lost - William Shakespeare
Dickens and Prince - Nick Hornby
The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
Greek Gods and Heroes - Robert Graves
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
The Princess and the Scoundrel - Beth Revis
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Intro: 00:00
1:18 A Passage to India and Academic Chats
7:39 Love’s Labor’s Lost
12:49 Dickens and Prince
22:14 Book Haul
@johnsaxongitno4life588 Жыл бұрын
Love this amazing video and your amazing channel and thank you for some amazing books 📚 for me to enjoy and read love your Aussie friend John 💙💙❤️❤️
@larrymilliken288 Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed your comments about Shakespeare’s lesser-known play and will try to find a copy to read. Also, your thoughts on Dickens’ audience are spot on-his writing was geared to the masses of his day, but we can join the fun, too, and be entertained. The one drawback of enjoying him is the period words and phrases peculiar to the Victorian era. I overcame these by looking up unknown words as I encountered them, which now are a part of my hidden vocabulary that makes reading his works so enjoyable. Thank you, Valerie, glad to see again!
@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын
I’ve now finished the play and I ended up really enjoying it from start to finish! Thanks for watching.
@Xenu Жыл бұрын
"Loves Labours Lost" is a pretty underrated Shakespeare play, in my opinion. All the verbal humor makes the play a bit more challenging to read than most of his other plays but it is worth the extra effort. And it's very funny! I look forward to hearing what you think about the play once you've finished it.
@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын
I hadn’t heard much about it but I thought it was hilarious! It’ll be in a wrap up soon.
@betinaceciliafeld9854 Жыл бұрын
The House of Mirth is absolutely amazing! The ending contains one of the best description of the situation it is describing I've read. I'll stay tuned for your thoughts on it.
@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын
I already know I love Edith Wharton so hearing this makes me even more excited to read it!
@hildureinarsdottir3208 Жыл бұрын
Excited to hear your thoughts on the Fellowship of the Ring..
@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын
I'm excited to start it!
@karenwetherald6086 Жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness that book, Dickens' and Prince sounds so hilarious.... I'm very interested. I wonder, would it spoil any of Dicken's novels ? Turns out my local book store has a copy of that in... I may have to pick it up (though I'm also tempted to pick up the new Salmon Rushdie book that comes out next week....)
@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын
I think there were some plot points discussed but they were so brief that I don't remember the context of the spoilers (if there were any). Dickens also has such complex plots and large casts of characters that it's hard to remember spoilers when they're buried in another book I think!
@sarahsperusals Жыл бұрын
i'm cackling because how have you avoided seeing tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын
I was going to ask you if you’ve heard of it yesterday LOL
@MartinDSmith Жыл бұрын
Hasn't Shakespeare a sonnet "My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun"?❤️
@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын
Yes! The soliloquy reminded me of that
@sarahsperusals Жыл бұрын
you READ a shakespeare without me? betrayal
@ThornfieldBooks Жыл бұрын
Nooo this one doesn’t count 😅
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