I am not big on fantasy or scifi, but you tempt me to read more with your descriptions. Definitely one of my favorite booktubers, I just get so mesmerized by your personality and energy and love of books
Saphira is my favourite dragon too ☺️ I love your videos. I read Of Mice and Men at school to and renember absolutely loveing writing about it in my GCSEs. It was one of those books, similarly to Frankenstein that the more I studied it the more I enjoyed it.
I recently read Midnight Sun for the nostalgia and it was SO MUCH FUN . It was cheesy and bad and dramatic and overwrought and I enjoyed it more than I’ve enjoyed a book in ages. It’s like eating McDonalds, you obviously know it’s shit you aren’t eating an eye fillet with truffle mash but it’s still enjoyable in its way
Wow it’s really interesting about Jane Eyre. Lots of people agree with you on the Lowood parts, but I LOVED that section as I did the rest of the book! And I think I have to revisit the Hunger Games as an “adult”. I read them when I was 14 and loved them but I think I could get so much more out of them now.
This video gives me so much nostalgia 💜 I’ve read all of the books you’ve mentioned, although most of them were when I was a kid so there are parts that I can’t remember. I agree with you on Lord of the Rings. I watched the films and loved them (The Hobbit films on the other hand disappointed me so much 💔) but I struggled through the books. I’m planning to re-read them this year (as part of a read-a-long) and I’m interested to see if my opinion changes as an adult!
I've read the first 3-4 Game of Thrones books and I'm still undecided whether to continue with the series. I think I might go down the audiobook route as I've found it easier to listen to them than read the physical copies.
Cannery Row by Steinbeck is one of my favourite books. It's only short and not a lot really happens but it's so rich in characters and atmosphere. I loved The Grapes of Wrath too. I will get to East of Eden so soon. I just love Steinbeck's writing all around, he was so good at making you feel as though you were there in the world he was describing. Even if you live completely different lives to his characters the themes he touches upon are universal. It's interesting looking at my own Read shelf organised this way to see what you haven't read! I'm surprised you haven't read To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984/Animal Farm (or if you have they're not on your Goodreads!) Please do. They're excellent!!
I read LotR and the Hobbit so many times as a kid and loved them (LotR more). The older I got, though, the harder it was for me to get through the books. When the LotR films were coming out, I had to reread each book one at a time just before each movie when normally I am a series binge reader.
The top 10 most popular books on Goodreads that I've read, not counting Harry Potter and multiple books in series, are The Hunger Games, Twilight, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Fault in Our Stars, Pride and Prejudice, Divergent, Animal Farm, Diary of a Young Girl and The Kite Runner. I like all of those books except Twilight lmao. Loved seeing the ones on your list and hearing your thoughts on them. I also prefer the LOTR films, maybe because I grew up with them? I was 9 when the first film came out and my sister and I rewatched them so many times. I saw all of them in the cinema. I actually went to New Zealand because of them. NZ is amazing anyway but the Lord of the Rings films definitely planted the seed of me wanting to go there 😍👌 I've only read the first book and it took so many tries to get through it. I'd like to try again to read them all and see how I would like them now.
I remember renting the VHS of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe BBC series from the library as a kid, I even bought it on DVD years later just for the nostalgia!
I'm planning on rereading Eragon soon and I can't wait. It's one of the few series from when I was younger (apart from Harry Potter, Narnia and Lemony Snicket) that my brother loved as well and it gives me such fond memories.
I've never been interested in reading or watching Game of Thrones bc I've heard there is a lot of sexual violence and I find that a very difficult topic especially if not treated sensitively - hearing you say it wasn't handled very well, I don't feel bad about avoiding them now. I hadn't realised that Of Mice and Men was so short, that's definitely endeared me to give it a go sooner.
Yeah. Theres a heavy reliance on women being put through hell in order for them to have a phoenix moment, so if you don't enjoy that you will NOT like game of thrones. I'd skip it and read Ursula K Le Guin instead !
Great video! Have you seen the news Paolini is releasing a new Sci-Fi series this year? The first book is supposed to come out in september, I think. Also, I read in his Goodreads page he intends to write a sequel to Inheritance, super excited XD
Me too! I loved the first part ❤ I thought it was sad, fun, emotional... Lol i really enjoyed it (the worst part for me was the last one, with that saint john, hated him)
I have the same relationship with The Fault in Our Stars. I hadn't finished any pleasure reads in ages, because of uni so it felt so nice to race through it.
Of Mice and Men I had to read at school haha! I remember not being able to really get into it but when I reread it being now older it isn't to bad haha
I eloped at the Hobbit holes in New Zealand... so I really love Lord of the Rings. And I agree with you, Hobbit > LotR books, LotR > Hobbit Movies, and LotR movies > LotR books. 💁🏻♀️
I also loved the lion the witch and the wardrobe both the book and the mini series, but I remember being absolutely terrified by one part to do with the white witch and I haven't rewatched it as an adult partially for that reason 😂
Completely agree on the Hobbit films! I consider the book and the films 2 completely separate entities... my pet peeve is the addition of Tauriel, completely useless character in my opinion, just because they had to force a romance somewhere in the story 🤨😒 Also agree on the Hunger Games and the way it deals with the aftermath of trauma
I agree with your opinion of Twilight and the associated normalization of negative relationship dynamics. I also think a huge part of growing up is learning to recognize when cultural ideals are problematic and learning from the perspective in order to create a better future. I think that unfortunately there are aspects of (in my experience, usually conservative culture) that are not allowing that process to happen or are even demonizing the process and calling for a return to previous societal ideals. *rant over*
I think it’s really interesting that the only book on the list that I haven’t read is Of Mice and Men. Some people at my secondary school read it but I read Kestrel for A Knave which I did not enjoy (apart from some pretty metaphors used!) I agree with your thoughts on New Moon. I think even when I read them as a teenager I knew the romance wasn’t great. However I think I continued with the series due to particular characters that I was rooting for. Jane Eyre is relatively recent read for me and I wasn’t sure I’d like it, despite several friends telling me I would enjoy it. I think this is because I struggle with the style of a lot of classic authors. However Jane is such a fascinating character that I had to keep reading it. Once I was passed the school part I really enjoyed it. Definitely recommend to anyone who isn’t so fond of classics. Also Eragon - what a book! Serafina is the best! What I loved is how much I enjoyed all the books in the series. Sometimes series go downhill and just don’t quite live up to expectations with their conclusions, but not the Inheritance Cycle. That ending was painful but weirdly satisfying. Oh and Narnia is so nostalgic. I just can’t bring myself to read the final book in the Chronicles. I feel like it will too heartbreaking!
I read The Pearl after Of Mice and Men. I still really liked the writing but wasn't as gripped by the story. I would definitely like to read more Steinbeck though
I love the LOTR books so much but I would rewatch the movies before I would reread the books 😂 I’ve revisited both many many times but the films are just so so so good.
Loved twilight in my teenage years and hold a lot of nostalgia for it, now we're buddy reading midnight sun with my best friends and we Hate everything about itt and are having sooo much fun talking trash about it on zoom calls 😂 Love Jane Eyre, I didn't find the beginning as slow though, I actually enjoyed it more than I expected and struggled with the end when she leaves, took me a lot longer to finish it.
Oh, the Hobbit movies. Why why why. The first one, I embarrassingly tried to start a round of applause in the cinema (didn't work). After the end of the third one, I just... sat. For like an hour. In silent trauma. Trying to process the desecration of something that was so formative to me. Narnia... I reread those recently. 2018, maybe. It's rather fascinating because throughout the whole series you gradually see Lewis climbing further onto his soapbox. By _The Silver Chair_ I was just goggling as he spouted off about the kids not knowing who Adam and Eve were because, horror of horrors!, they went to a co-ed non-religious school. Wowwwww. Oh Game of Thrones. GRRM ain't neeeeever gonna finish that series and I kind of love how the period of his procrastination has encompassed an entire TV show and the absolute _tanking_ of public goodwill for that property. Not in a vindictive way, or anything, it's just cynically hilarious. Definitely read more Steinbeck! He's a stunning writer. I'd recommend Cannery Row.
I completely agree with you on The Lord of the Rings! I've yet to read the last book (it's on my TBR for 2020, but I keep putting off reading it, if I'm completely honest), and while I enjoyed the first two books, I preferred the films as well. I feel like although the story, the world and the entire lore of LOTR is really amazing, the writing style kind of takes the suspense out of it a lot of the times, which can sometimes make them feel like a bit of a drag to get through for me (whoops, blasphemy). Loved this video! :)
I have to put in a plug for Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Charlotte was the most popular of the Bronte sisters and after Anne's death, she tried to suppress reprinting of Tenant because she felt the subject was inappropriate (one of the characters is a gambler / alcoholic probably partly based on their brother Branwell). That is part of the reason that Anne isn't as popular. I think Tenant is the best of all the Bronte books!
I really enjoyed this video! I looked up my most popular read shelf, and I wonder how they are put together. Could they be country or region specific? I would be surprised if you had not read neither To Kill a Mockingbird nor Pride and Prejudice.
I used to love that Narnia BBC miniseries. Definitely had a crush as a child on the kid who played Peter. So if you never read beyond the 3rd book, you never got to Voyage of the Dawn Treader? That was always my favorite. Did you at least see the later miniseries episodes for the books that take place after The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe?
This was fun. I feel like if you want to read the Narnia-books don't judge it on A Horse and His Boy. Prince Caspian is a lot more fun, and the boat one... Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is also really fun. But they're definitely children's books, and they're obviously really Jesus-y. I really liked Of Mice and Men; and I really love East of Eden if you want to continue with Steinbeck.
The most popular books I read are Harry Potter, Hunger Games, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Fault in Our Stars, The Hobbit, Pride and Prejudice, The Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Diary of A Young Girl and Gone Girl. A really mixed bag! Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird and Diary of a Young Girl are all-time favourites for me. I hated the last Hunger Games book so much that it tainted the whole series for me so they're all 1 star, and I thought the Hobbit was boring. I liked Pride and Prejudice, Animal Farm and Gone Girl but didn't love them. And The Catcher in the Rye was okay.
Gosh Narnia was my favourite as a kid. I would listen to the radio adaptations on repeat for years and now I can’t consume the stories at all because the racism and sexism is so bad! I still like certain elements. The portal fantasy and the magical creatures etc but yeah can’t get though it now.
The LOTR films tell the story better than the books, I think. I reread them after seeing all the films, and I wasn't overly impressed (I didn't really like them that much when I first read them as a teenager). As for GoT, I'm a bit wary of starting on that series cos I frankly have my doubts that papa George is going to live long enough to finish it. Years ago I did start on the first volume, but had to return it to the library only half-finished (damn people for being able to place reserves on library items like that). And I was enjoying it, too, which was annoying, but I haven't gone back. As for Twilight, if you haven't read it, you have missed precisely nothing (although if you've read the other books, maybe it's worth completing the series. Or maybe not if you didn't like them, I don't know). Like Game of Thrones I only read half of it, but that's because I quit it out of disgust.
Supposedly Covid has forced George R.R. Martin to actually make progress on the next book in the series. Im not holding my breath at this point but hopefull enough to keep an eye out.
I don’t think Lewis would have said not fighting “isn’t womanly,” but rather he says that a war in which women must fight is a very bad war. He does have Father Christmas give each of the young ladies a weapon. In Caspian he even has Susan compete with a Dwarf regarding marksmanship and she beats him. I think Lewis’s point is a more subtle one.
Why is worse for women to fight/die in a war than men? War is a horrible thing for whoever the soldiers are. There's actually been a lot of really interesting research that highlights the sexism, particularly in the depiction of Susan's womanhood as she ages in the Narnia books. 'What About Susan? Gender in Narnia' is one paper in particular I remember :).
I think Lewis would agree that war is terrible. I think he would have said that a country that sends its mothers and daughters to war, instead of seeking to protect them, has lost a certain virtue. Again, not because they are incapable, but rather because they are owed a certain level of protection. I think that’s what Lewis was getting at. Like I said, he armed both girls in the story.
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I am not big on fantasy or scifi, but you tempt me to read more with your descriptions. Definitely one of my favorite booktubers, I just get so mesmerized by your personality and energy and love of books
Saphira is my favourite dragon too ☺️ I love your videos. I read Of Mice and Men at school to and renember absolutely loveing writing about it in my GCSEs. It was one of those books, similarly to Frankenstein that the more I studied it the more I enjoyed it.
I recently read Midnight Sun for the nostalgia and it was SO MUCH FUN . It was cheesy and bad and dramatic and overwrought and I enjoyed it more than I’ve enjoyed a book in ages. It’s like eating McDonalds, you obviously know it’s shit you aren’t eating an eye fillet with truffle mash but it’s still enjoyable in its way
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I love that 😂
Wow it’s really interesting about Jane Eyre. Lots of people agree with you on the Lowood parts, but I LOVED that section as I did the rest of the book! And I think I have to revisit the Hunger Games as an “adult”. I read them when I was 14 and loved them but I think I could get so much more out of them now.
This video gives me so much nostalgia 💜 I’ve read all of the books you’ve mentioned, although most of them were when I was a kid so there are parts that I can’t remember.
I agree with you on Lord of the Rings. I watched the films and loved them (The Hobbit films on the other hand disappointed me so much 💔) but I struggled through the books. I’m planning to re-read them this year (as part of a read-a-long) and I’m interested to see if my opinion changes as an adult!
I've read the first 3-4 Game of Thrones books and I'm still undecided whether to continue with the series. I think I might go down the audiobook route as I've found it easier to listen to them than read the physical copies.
My favourite thing about this video is the story about your grandad just pulling up next to you to give you book recs. So sweet!
Aha he was great - he knew I was always writing books and though it was cool he was so young. Much missed
Cannery Row by Steinbeck is one of my favourite books. It's only short and not a lot really happens but it's so rich in characters and atmosphere. I loved The Grapes of Wrath too. I will get to East of Eden so soon. I just love Steinbeck's writing all around, he was so good at making you feel as though you were there in the world he was describing. Even if you live completely different lives to his characters the themes he touches upon are universal.
It's interesting looking at my own Read shelf organised this way to see what you haven't read! I'm surprised you haven't read To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984/Animal Farm (or if you have they're not on your Goodreads!) Please do. They're excellent!!
Steinbeck is well worth the read when you decide to try another of his books. I think you would really enjoy East of Eden!
East of Eden! I read this book years ago and still think about it. I will certainly be rereading it soon. I second this recommendation.
She is very strangely and consistently biased against male writers, most of her top tens are 90% + female.
I read LotR and the Hobbit so many times as a kid and loved them (LotR more). The older I got, though, the harder it was for me to get through the books. When the LotR films were coming out, I had to reread each book one at a time just before each movie when normally I am a series binge reader.
Of Mice and Men was the first book that made me cry as a teenager 😭
The top 10 most popular books on Goodreads that I've read, not counting Harry Potter and multiple books in series, are The Hunger Games, Twilight, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Fault in Our Stars, Pride and Prejudice, Divergent, Animal Farm, Diary of a Young Girl and The Kite Runner. I like all of those books except Twilight lmao.
Loved seeing the ones on your list and hearing your thoughts on them. I also prefer the LOTR films, maybe because I grew up with them? I was 9 when the first film came out and my sister and I rewatched them so many times. I saw all of them in the cinema. I actually went to New Zealand because of them. NZ is amazing anyway but the Lord of the Rings films definitely planted the seed of me wanting to go there 😍👌 I've only read the first book and it took so many tries to get through it. I'd like to try again to read them all and see how I would like them now.
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern was for me what Paolini's Inheritance Cycle was for you... I fell in love with dragons & wanted one of my own...
I remember renting the VHS of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe BBC series from the library as a kid, I even bought it on DVD years later just for the nostalgia!
I mentioned you in my latest book haul video!! You inspired me to purchase a certain book outside my usual style of reading! 💗
I'm planning on rereading Eragon soon and I can't wait. It's one of the few series from when I was younger (apart from Harry Potter, Narnia and Lemony Snicket) that my brother loved as well and it gives me such fond memories.
I've never been interested in reading or watching Game of Thrones bc I've heard there is a lot of sexual violence and I find that a very difficult topic especially if not treated sensitively - hearing you say it wasn't handled very well, I don't feel bad about avoiding them now. I hadn't realised that Of Mice and Men was so short, that's definitely endeared me to give it a go sooner.
Yeah I don't like that either so I will never read or watch GoT. Just not a fan of that stuff.
Yeah. Theres a heavy reliance on women being put through hell in order for them to have a phoenix moment, so if you don't enjoy that you will NOT like game of thrones. I'd skip it and read Ursula K Le Guin instead !
Great video! Have you seen the news Paolini is releasing a new Sci-Fi series this year? The first book is supposed to come out in september, I think. Also, I read in his Goodreads page he intends to write a sequel to Inheritance, super excited XD
Yes and I’m SO EXCITED!
Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books ever, and I've always especially loved the first part! I remember reading it and relating so much to her.
Me too! I loved the first part ❤ I thought it was sad, fun, emotional... Lol i really enjoyed it (the worst part for me was the last one, with that saint john, hated him)
I would love to see a video about the most obscure books you've read!
I have the same relationship with The Fault in Our Stars. I hadn't finished any pleasure reads in ages, because of uni so it felt so nice to race through it.
Of Mice and Men I had to read at school haha! I remember not being able to really get into it but when I reread it being now older it isn't to bad haha
I also loved the Lion the Which and the Wardrobe BBC adaptation! :)
I eloped at the Hobbit holes in New Zealand... so I really love Lord of the Rings. And I agree with you, Hobbit > LotR books, LotR > Hobbit Movies, and LotR movies > LotR books. 💁🏻♀️
Oh my goodness this sounds like THE DREAM!
I also loved the lion the witch and the wardrobe both the book and the mini series, but I remember being absolutely terrified by one part to do with the white witch and I haven't rewatched it as an adult partially for that reason 😂
The white witch is TERRIFYING in it - no other adaptation is as scary aha.
Completely agree on the Hobbit films!
I consider the book and the films 2 completely separate entities... my pet peeve is the addition of Tauriel, completely useless character in my opinion, just because they had to force a romance somewhere in the story 🤨😒
Also agree on the Hunger Games and the way it deals with the aftermath of trauma
Have you read Flowers for Algernon?
I agree with your opinion of Twilight and the associated normalization of negative relationship dynamics. I also think a huge part of growing up is learning to recognize when cultural ideals are problematic and learning from the perspective in order to create a better future. I think that unfortunately there are aspects of (in my experience, usually conservative culture) that are not allowing that process to happen or are even demonizing the process and calling for a return to previous societal ideals. *rant over*
I think it’s really interesting that the only book on the list that I haven’t read is Of Mice and Men. Some people at my secondary school read it but I read Kestrel for A Knave which I did not enjoy (apart from some pretty metaphors used!)
I agree with your thoughts on New Moon. I think even when I read them as a teenager I knew the romance wasn’t great. However I think I continued with the series due to particular characters that I was rooting for.
Jane Eyre is relatively recent read for me and I wasn’t sure I’d like it, despite several friends telling me I would enjoy it. I think this is because I struggle with the style of a lot of classic authors. However Jane is such a fascinating character that I had to keep reading it. Once I was passed the school part I really enjoyed it. Definitely recommend to anyone who isn’t so fond of classics.
Also Eragon - what a book! Serafina is the best! What I loved is how much I enjoyed all the books in the series. Sometimes series go downhill and just don’t quite live up to expectations with their conclusions, but not the Inheritance Cycle. That ending was painful but weirdly satisfying.
Oh and Narnia is so nostalgic. I just can’t bring myself to read the final book in the Chronicles. I feel like it will too heartbreaking!
I read The Pearl after Of Mice and Men. I still really liked the writing but wasn't as gripped by the story. I would definitely like to read more Steinbeck though
I love the LOTR books so much but I would rewatch the movies before I would reread the books 😂 I’ve revisited both many many times but the films are just so so so good.
I think they are boring but I really like the scenes with the talking trees, I wish there was more of that in fantasy books. Do you know any other?
Loved twilight in my teenage years and hold a lot of nostalgia for it, now we're buddy reading midnight sun with my best friends and we Hate everything about itt and are having sooo much fun talking trash about it on zoom calls 😂
Love Jane Eyre, I didn't find the beginning as slow though, I actually enjoyed it more than I expected and struggled with the end when she leaves, took me a lot longer to finish it.
Ahaha sometimes you just got to have a good hate buddy read!
Oh, the Hobbit movies. Why why why. The first one, I embarrassingly tried to start a round of applause in the cinema (didn't work). After the end of the third one, I just... sat. For like an hour. In silent trauma. Trying to process the desecration of something that was so formative to me.
Narnia... I reread those recently. 2018, maybe. It's rather fascinating because throughout the whole series you gradually see Lewis climbing further onto his soapbox. By _The Silver Chair_ I was just goggling as he spouted off about the kids not knowing who Adam and Eve were because, horror of horrors!, they went to a co-ed non-religious school. Wowwwww.
Oh Game of Thrones. GRRM ain't neeeeever gonna finish that series and I kind of love how the period of his procrastination has encompassed an entire TV show and the absolute _tanking_ of public goodwill for that property. Not in a vindictive way, or anything, it's just cynically hilarious.
Definitely read more Steinbeck! He's a stunning writer. I'd recommend Cannery Row.
I completely agree with you on The Lord of the Rings! I've yet to read the last book (it's on my TBR for 2020, but I keep putting off reading it, if I'm completely honest), and while I enjoyed the first two books, I preferred the films as well. I feel like although the story, the world and the entire lore of LOTR is really amazing, the writing style kind of takes the suspense out of it a lot of the times, which can sometimes make them feel like a bit of a drag to get through for me (whoops, blasphemy). Loved this video! :)
I have to put in a plug for Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Charlotte was the most popular of the Bronte sisters and after Anne's death, she tried to suppress reprinting of Tenant because she felt the subject was inappropriate (one of the characters is a gambler / alcoholic probably partly based on their brother Branwell). That is part of the reason that Anne isn't as popular. I think Tenant is the best of all the Bronte books!
I really enjoyed this video! I looked up my most popular read shelf, and I wonder how they are put together. Could they be country or region specific? I would be surprised if you had not read neither To Kill a Mockingbird nor Pride and Prejudice.
I actually haven’t aha - I’ve read three Austen’s but I’ve yet to read P&P - one day though!
(I’ve seen film adaptations of both 😅)
I used to love that Narnia BBC miniseries. Definitely had a crush as a child on the kid who played Peter. So if you never read beyond the 3rd book, you never got to Voyage of the Dawn Treader? That was always my favorite. Did you at least see the later miniseries episodes for the books that take place after The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe?
I really like this idea!
You’ve got to read Voyage of the Dawn Treader (even if it’s just for Reepicheep) xx
This was fun. I feel like if you want to read the Narnia-books don't judge it on A Horse and His Boy. Prince Caspian is a lot more fun, and the boat one... Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is also really fun. But they're definitely children's books, and they're obviously really Jesus-y. I really liked Of Mice and Men; and I really love East of Eden if you want to continue with Steinbeck.
I do enjoy listening to your opinions 😊
The most popular books I read are Harry Potter, Hunger Games, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Fault in Our Stars, The Hobbit, Pride and Prejudice, The Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Diary of A Young Girl and Gone Girl.
A really mixed bag! Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird and Diary of a Young Girl are all-time favourites for me. I hated the last Hunger Games book so much that it tainted the whole series for me so they're all 1 star, and I thought the Hobbit was boring. I liked Pride and Prejudice, Animal Farm and Gone Girl but didn't love them. And The Catcher in the Rye was okay.
Lord of the Rings is one book anyway so reviewing it as one is appropriate and correct. 😉
I feel the exact same way about Twilight, it'sn you loo such a weird concept for teenagers to be reading when you look back on it.
Right!? Time for new stuff aha
I have the SOFTEST of places in my heart for The Hobbit cartoon film from the 70s -- much more than the newer film series
It greatly upsets me that publishers are marketing the Magicians Nephew as book 1. TLW&TW is a much better starting point
I Love the Magician's Nephew- the way it explains the existence of the wardrobe and the uncle and even the lamp post.
You should try Rebecca I think you would like it if you liked Jane Eyre.
I have ^_^ I enjoyed it although not as much aha.
I also never liked the Horse and His Boy when I was little, but I did like the Caspian books and the Silver Chair. :)
I agree ‘the horse and his boy’ wasn’t as enjoyable as the rest. ‘The silver chair’ and ‘the voyage of the dawn treader’ are my faves!!
Gosh Narnia was my favourite as a kid. I would listen to the radio adaptations on repeat for years and now I can’t consume the stories at all because the racism and sexism is so bad! I still like certain elements. The portal fantasy and the magical creatures etc but yeah can’t get though it now.
I know right - it's such a shame. Just gotta hope lots of new equally as magical middle grade is building on and improving it ^_^
The LOTR films tell the story better than the books, I think. I reread them after seeing all the films, and I wasn't overly impressed (I didn't really like them that much when I first read them as a teenager).
As for GoT, I'm a bit wary of starting on that series cos I frankly have my doubts that papa George is going to live long enough to finish it. Years ago I did start on the first volume, but had to return it to the library only half-finished (damn people for being able to place reserves on library items like that). And I was enjoying it, too, which was annoying, but I haven't gone back.
As for Twilight, if you haven't read it, you have missed precisely nothing (although if you've read the other books, maybe it's worth completing the series. Or maybe not if you didn't like them, I don't know). Like Game of Thrones I only read half of it, but that's because I quit it out of disgust.
Supposedly Covid has forced George R.R. Martin to actually make progress on the next book in the series. Im not holding my breath at this point but hopefull enough to keep an eye out.
unpopular opinion: i really don’t like the hobbit
*books
I don’t think Lewis would have said not fighting “isn’t womanly,” but rather he says that a war in which women must fight is a very bad war. He does have Father Christmas give each of the young ladies a weapon. In Caspian he even has Susan compete with a Dwarf regarding marksmanship and she beats him. I think Lewis’s point is a more subtle one.
Why is worse for women to fight/die in a war than men? War is a horrible thing for whoever the soldiers are. There's actually been a lot of really interesting research that highlights the sexism, particularly in the depiction of Susan's womanhood as she ages in the Narnia books. 'What About Susan? Gender in Narnia' is one paper in particular I remember :).
I think Lewis would agree that war is terrible. I think he would have said that a country that sends its mothers and daughters to war, instead of seeking to protect them, has lost a certain virtue. Again, not because they are incapable, but rather because they are owed a certain level of protection. I think that’s what Lewis was getting at. Like I said, he armed both girls in the story.