I understand you're an intellectual with great taste, but imagine how funny it would be if you made a video challenging yourself to read the most popular YA books at the moment and give your most honest opinion. I'd watch that. "Cultivated British Guy Reads Plebeian Literature".
Your account is like a breath of fresh air! So thrilled to have stumbled upon this, you have such an upbeat and engaging way of speaking, and excellent taste in books!
‘Frankenstein’ has been on my TBR forever. I shamefully admit that I’ve watched many movie adaptions, but have never read the book. And I do even own a copy 😳 Also, will check out ‘The Warden’. (shared to X hope you don’t mind) Great recommendations and video!
Being Cuban American doesn't bar you from making any comment whatsoever! I may have to do a non-bookish video about "britishness" with all of the traps and twigs that such a discussion would force me to avoid🤣
I really do need to get to A Room of One’s Own! I also do want to read Kafka at some point. 😊. THE WARDEN, THE WARDEN. How much I enjoyed this, my first foray into Trollope world when I read it last year. 🥰🥰🥰
Room of one’s own is now on my list. Love Woolf. I found Frankenstein strangely moving and touching. Did not anticipate those emotions. Great selection. Yes Kafka but only when not already depressed 😅
@@JoeSpivey02 Thematically they are a bit different. The general consensus I've seen on BookTube is that most people think the 1818 text is superior. The 1831 version is a bit more fatalistic and kind of takes away the free will of the characters. If you get bored give it a read and see what you think.
You've read them all this week!! Impressive. I've been overwhelmed with work and other things lately but watching this made me smile and feel uplifted. Your recommendations alongside your humor are so refreshing.
Oh yes-The Warden and Room of One’s Own are special favorites of mine. The Bennett play is on my list. (Have you read Rachel Ray? It was my first Trollope.)
I "love* Frankenstein, The Warden and pretty much anything Sherlock Holmes. I don't recall The Adventure of the Second Stain, but now I'm going to have to give it a re-read. 📚
@@JoeSpivey02 I love the characters, particularly the Warden, his son in law, his to be son in law, and the old men. The plot shows Trollope on song, and he shows the flaws of the church of England, it's greed and resistance to change. To be honest, I haven't read a bad Trollope yet, perhaps with the exception of that weird, dystopia thing, The Fixed Period, but at my age the subject of a rigidly fixed lifespan, is bound to be unattractive.
I can´t see myself getting out of a reading slump by reading a feministic book by Virginia Woolf, but the rest of the recommendations I find very good. Thank you very much.
I understand you're an intellectual with great taste, but imagine how funny it would be if you made a video challenging yourself to read the most popular YA books at the moment and give your most honest opinion. I'd watch that. "Cultivated British Guy Reads Plebeian Literature".
I’m not too highfalutin and snobby to refuse that offer. I might have to fill my basket with some greasy YA! What might you recommend?
@@JoeSpivey02Clown In A Cornfield 1 and 2 are really good in my opinion.
@@JoeSpivey02Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Your account is like a breath of fresh air! So thrilled to have stumbled upon this, you have such an upbeat and engaging way of speaking, and excellent taste in books!
I’ll have you know it’s currently colder in Nashville than in northern England
Would-be subscribers ??? 🤣
‘Frankenstein’ has been on my TBR forever. I shamefully admit that I’ve watched many movie adaptions, but have never read the book. And I do even own a copy 😳 Also, will check out ‘The Warden’. (shared to X hope you don’t mind) Great recommendations and video!
Shout it from the rooftops!
You're hilarious
Congrats on your booktube success Joe!
Success? Y'aint seen nothing yet!
Peter Parker?
Try to read ebook called Good Idea Bad Idea by Son E from kindle. I randomly read it it's a great book really interesting and engaging ❤️
Thanks for all the great recommendations!
For some reason I had it in my head that Frankenstein was super long. Glad to see it is not
Get it down you! I feel like a parent spoon-feeding the nutrients to my wee babies in their high chairs! Not to condescend of course ;)
I’m like Cuban American so take my opinion with a grain of salt but this is the most British thing I’ve watched… and I’m intrigued 😑 tell me more
Being Cuban American doesn't bar you from making any comment whatsoever! I may have to do a non-bookish video about "britishness" with all of the traps and twigs that such a discussion would force me to avoid🤣
I really do need to get to A Room of One’s Own! I also do want to read Kafka at some point. 😊. THE WARDEN, THE WARDEN. How much I enjoyed this, my first foray into Trollope world when I read it last year. 🥰🥰🥰
Oh this video is wonderful. You’re adorable! ❤️
Room of one’s own is now on my list. Love Woolf. I found Frankenstein strangely moving and touching. Did not anticipate those emotions. Great selection. Yes Kafka but only when not already depressed 😅
Great suggestions! I love reading shorter books to keep me out of reading slumps.
Which version of the text of Frankenstein is that. The 1818 or 1831?
1818! Are there major differences in the later edition that I've missed out on?
@@JoeSpivey02 Thematically they are a bit different. The general consensus I've seen on BookTube is that most people think the 1818 text is superior. The 1831 version is a bit more fatalistic and kind of takes away the free will of the characters. If you get bored give it a read and see what you think.
You've read them all this week!! Impressive. I've been overwhelmed with work and other things lately but watching this made me smile and feel uplifted. Your recommendations alongside your humor are so refreshing.
And your praise is always welcome. Keep pumping out those videos!
Oh yes-The Warden and Room of One’s Own are special favorites of mine. The Bennett play is on my list. (Have you read Rachel Ray? It was my first Trollope.)
History Boys will be rewarding if you're an angsty inexperienced youngling. It's right down your street ;)
@@JoeSpivey02 Ha! I was thinking it might give me insight into my students and offspring…
It's pronounced 'Jee-kyll. Like the gardener, Gertrude Jekyll. And that's how Stevenson said it.
the way you roll your ‘r’s is satisfying
I learnt from the best - Kenneth Williams!
Happy I found you❤
What did you think of jujutsu kaisin chapter 251?
Ask the dust John Fante is a good short one
I "love* Frankenstein, The Warden and pretty much anything Sherlock Holmes. I don't recall The Adventure of the Second Stain, but now I'm going to have to give it a re-read. 📚
Ever the loyal subject!
Some great books there.
I'm rereading the Warden currently, and, as always enjoying it.
What is it you love so much about it? Don't fear, you can disagree with your Supreme Leader Spivey if you have some different positives to point out!
@@JoeSpivey02 I love the characters, particularly the Warden, his son in law, his to be son in law, and the old men. The plot shows Trollope on song, and he shows the flaws of the church of England, it's greed and resistance to change. To be honest, I haven't read a bad Trollope yet, perhaps with the exception of that weird, dystopia thing, The Fixed Period, but at my age the subject of a rigidly fixed lifespan, is bound to be unattractive.
Thank you❤
I can´t see myself getting out of a reading slump by reading a feministic book by Virginia Woolf, but the rest of the recommendations I find very good. Thank you very much.
It’ll both astound you and enamour you, please give it a go!