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Congrats on 1,000 subscribers!! Loved hearing about your 2025 plans!!

Excellent list! I really loved To the Lighthouse when I read it in September, it was my first Virginia Woolf. I also hope you enjoy Wolf Hall. I read the trilogy a few years ago but I'm thinking it is due a reread. I'm also in my last year of a PhD, but completely burnt out so my reading goals for 2025 will be a lack of reading goals. Crawling to the finish line 😼

You Let Me In and How to be a Victorian are going on my future reading!

Romantic Outlaws is excellent! One of my favorite books of 2024. I would highly recommend it.

Good luck on your 18 century journey! I'm doing a read through the decades and am going to pick up The Italian as well.

Oh Girrl!... I love your list. i have read some of the books on the list and I want to read all your list. But it's a three year project for me. You will love the Female Quixote, You will laugh your head off when you read it. The protagonist is a young girl who only has read the French romances. She takes them to heart and actually believes the world functions as in these stories. Lots of stories and characters that I really would like to read the originals. Because they are referred to many times. You will love The Return of the Native. I read the Warden. You really should read these stories in order. Church politics are all throughout. And the story of the "old folks home" and the scandal that was printed up in the London Newspaper detailing all the ins and outs of the poor warden who never did anything wrong during his tenure, reminds me of today's scandals being talked about to death. Very modern themes. I have read some eighteenth-century novels but mostly regency. I even ordered a book that talks about women's novels of the regency period, I wanted to gather authors who I want to read. I think reading a book from each decade is a smart way to tackle your project. I am so happy you are graduating this May. I'd love to read your dissertation. Its your baby. A mighty big baby at that. Whenever I do a big project like that, I think that everything just fell out of me and my whole self is in it. I used to do all these teaching projects for school. I did several big units for elementary school. I stayed up all night making learning centers for prek. I've written upteen research papers. So I know your frustrations and the hours you will never get back. So bathe in self-congratulations. You deserve it.

Great list! I think that the only ones that I have read are Robinson Crusoe, The Italian, Sylvia's Lovers, To the Lighthouse, and the Wolf Hall trilogy. Like you, I have read Barchester Towers, but nothing else from that series! This year, I'll definitely be reading Our Mutual Friend at last.

I do love Gulliver’s Travels, hope you’ll enjoy that one! I will also add praise for Romantic Outlaws which I finally read this year and loved. I hope to read more from Wollstonecraft this year as well I read her Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden last year and absolutely loved it.

That’s a great list you have there Elizabeth. I read quite a few eighteenth century novels at college, Robinson, Gulliver, Tom Jones and Tristan - yes very male! I’d be interested in checking out some of your eighteenth century novels but this year I’m trying to read off my own shelves and I don’t own any of them 😬. Really liked The Essex Serpent and can’t praise Wolf Hall enough! I might reread Our Mutual Friend this year as I remember loving it but apparently only gave it four stars 🤔

Oh, an interesting list. I've read Burney's 'Evelina' and either 'Camilla' or 'Cecilia' I have a feeling there was a lottery in the plot of the one I read! Otherwise I've read 'Gulliver's Travels' which wasn't really for me, I was a teenager and the satire perhaps didn't work for me.

Omg ;____; I also live in the MA/NH area and I'm not a booktuber but if there were a used bookstore crawl I'd love to go lol. One used bookstore I was really disappointed about closing was The Book Cellar in Nashua. Great prices and I got some of my favorite books there. I got my Wordsworth Poetry Library edition of John Donne's poems there and so many other good books. They sold both used and new books for decent prices but they closed right before the pandemic. Have you ever been to Bull Moose? They're a chain in NH and Maine. They're just a general media store with both new and used things but as I live near one, I have gotten sooooo many used books there. Somehow I almost never walk out without something.

You and I should open a used bookstore. Maybe a Book Bar. That sounds like fun. If I lived in your area that would be a real consideration. I've always wanted to work at one. I used to go every Saturday "booking" as I call it. I lived in Hampton Roads Virginia and we had several used bookstores that I loved. They are sadly closed as well. Boo! Barnes and Noble is opening up over a hundred bookstores around the country, Smaller stores I think. It's so funny because I think they closed a lot of them over the past several years but real books are making a comeback. Yay!

I believe my best find at a used bookstore was a box set with all the Palliser novels by Trollope, in an older Oxford Classics edition. The spines don't quite match for some reason but for the rest, the books are in perfect condition and the whole set was $36, so that's about $6 per book, without counting the box itself (that's what I said to myself to convince me of how good a deal it was 😂😂😂). I found this during a holiday and I don't even know how I managed to bring the box set home in my suitcase, but every time I see it on my shelves I remember the moment when I first discovered it 😊

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OMG 'You Let Me In' sounds incredible!! I downloaded the audiobook immediately 🙃 I always get the title mixed up with 'let the right one in' by john lindqvist. You read so many good books this month, wow. I remember loving the goblin emperor as well. ML Rio's tumblr would have been so interesting. Graveyard Shift sounds great, but it sounds like it would be hard to even fit all that into the page count. Oooo such a bummer about Lakes Edge. A gothic without atmosphere is so disappointing😪

I read a number of Angela Carter's stories when I was a teenager, I wonder how they would hold up for me now.

Is women in white a gothic novel? Please reply I have to write an essay on Victorian Gothic Literature.

I think people have forgotten dating as a teenager. Of course you would make different choices as an adult, your an adult. 30 somethings are the most judgmental it is funny to me as a 67 yr old grandma.

This was really interesting, thanks for the suggestions.

I’m a big fan of The Way We Live Now and love Lady Carbury, there are definitely some frustrating characters in it but it’s a brilliant book even if not my favorite Trollope. I think I’m trying to fit two months of reading into December as I barely read in November, something tells me that won’t happen! 😉

Fascinating list!! Good luck with your December reading!

I've downloaded 'The Snowstorm' by Catherine Gore, it's a Christmas story, beyond that I know nothing about it. I wonder if the authors would have found 'silver fork' terminology irritating.

I remember reading about Martineau while I was reading Deerbrook, and thinking that she seems to have had a fascinating life. Of course, perhaps her memoirs are not that fun to read 😅 I'm currently reading Little Dorrit by Dickens, I'm about half way through, and yesterday I picked La Dame de Monsoreau up, it's the second part in the Reine Margot trilogy by Alexandre Dumas. So, I have two bricks between my hands at the moment, but that's fine 😂

I've just finished a memoir from a virtuoso violinist, Min Kym. I had one or two issues with it but it was interesting in terms of culture clash and what it's like to have a Stradivarius and indeed to have it stolen.

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Yay! I knew you’d love Deerbrook 🎉

Hello! I'm new to this UA-cam channel. Thanks for making this video and happy reading.

Romantic Outlaws is a fantastic biography!

Deerbrook is one of the most delightful books I've ever read!! Loved it so much.

You will love Romantic Outlaws! It was so, so good. I've read some other biographies since but nothing quite compares 😅

'Fanny Hill' has a racy reputation as a book, probably hasn't got anything on modern romance genres, I haven't read it. I recommend 'Dinner with Joseph Johnson' by Daisy Hay.

LOL It is definitely your fault that I could not leave the thrift store today without the book Romanovs by W Bruce Lincoln.

This is a great tag. It's cool that your interest in the Romanovs has continued!

The Juliet Barker book looks great! I was thinking about my own first NF read, and the first I can remember is a book about the Great Auk, which I read aged about 11 or 12 (I remember the school library). That was in the early 80s, though. I also remember one about the Gunpowder Plot, which included details of the gory ends of the plotters - not really appropriate for that age! I love NF and always have a couple things on the go. Last week I borrowed "The Last of Its Kind" from the library, a new book about the Great Auk :-) I'm so glad I found your channel as I love your Victorian videos too.

The last 3 books are now on my list to read. They all 3 sound excellent

I want to read 'Sister Novelists' it sounds like my kind of book.

Thank-you for the video - I enjoyed your list. I loved the Wolf Hall series by Hilary Mantel - and Our Mutual Friend is my favorite Dickens. Hope you enjoy them!! The book I want to finish this year is one I am reading for non-fiction November. It is called Braiding Sweetgrass and the author is Robin Wall Kimmerer. I am really enjoying this book.

I have been dying to read more 18th century novels, but I have no idea where to start. I cannot wait for your video!

I think I'm still going to be focussing on the 'read your own' challenge well into the New Year but I can't wait to see your video on 18th C novels. I recommend 'Dinner with Joseph Johnson' by Daisy Hay, he was the publisher of Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge etc. It's a well researched book particularly on the non conformists at the time of the French Revolution.

Looking forward for bookshelf tour ❤

Only one dud is pretty good Elizabeth but it must be disappointing when it’s a favorite author 😬 No Name definitely sounds like one for me, I read the Dead Secret by Collins and enjoyed it but I think it was almost too short! I had a successful Victober too with new authors and a real mix of short stories, plays and novels.

No Name is definitely one of my favorites by Wilkie Collins. Deerbrook has always been one of my favorite Victorian classics. I just finished my re-read. Such an underrated novel. I highly recommend both of these extraordinary books.😊😊

I am not doing well this year, I picked only two books and I am still reading them. I am enjoying them very much but I have had a lot going on. Sigh

Note to self, do not choose 'Ariadne' by Quida next Victober. 😆 I'm currently read 'Over Sea, Under Stone' by Susan Cooper as I didn't read any Sherlock and Alice was a fan of the 'The Dark is Rising' books. Children's adventure, I'm enjoying it so far.

I just stumbled across your channel and this series, and just finished binge watching the entire series. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing. I've been spending too much money lately on books, and you've inspired me to spend more money. I might need a larger house so I have more room for book cases. 🙂 Thank you for all the recommendations!!

Love this video! You mentioned some books I hadn't heard of. I love Deerbrook! Such a great story.

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Elizabeth! Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion. Please don't forget it's all make believe. Bella is no angel. She is mean to Edward and Jacob. It starts out love. Then it becomes all about herself. Trying to make Edward and Jacob her little pet's Vampires and werewolves. Are not dum. I just don't see the girl is a victim.

I first read Twilight the book. As an adult. Really liked it. The movies were good too. Life and Death was good. We did learn about Edward. Thanks to Midnight Sun. I really like your video. The way you explain. The way you feel about Twilight. The memory of reading it as a teenager vs adult. I am new to your channel. I'm enjoying it very much. Thank you for your channel. 🦇🧛🐺

What a treat this was. I feel I’ve only scratched the surface with Margaret Oliphant- I’m up to Salem Chapel in the Carlingford Chronicles, I’ve read a few short stories and I’ve just read Hester this Victober. Definitely want to read more. Just wish they were more easily accessible to get hold of xx