Hi Mikaila, loved your book haul. I always like to hear real readers offer succinct opinions on literature. Isn't Dandelion a great read! Ever checked out his Martian Chronicals, or The Illustrated Man or (it's almost Halloween) Something Wicked This Way Come? ... Don't you find Tony Morrison to be like a bitter pill?!? Mockingbird delievers the same medicine with more likeable characters. I do have to say though, that line of her's in 'Winter' about the comparitive seasonal whippings is real poetry, captures the cadence of Joyces' last line from The Dead....Did Steinbeck ever write anything bad? He considered Eden his crown jewel, I loved it too but liked Grapes even better. Ma Joad is one of literature's greatest heroines. If you ever need a pick-me-up try out Cannery Row or Tortilla Flat or Travels with Charlie...Speaking of heroines, can't beat those Bronte sisters, their mother must have been proud! Anne is just as good as Emily and Charlotte...Did Dickens ever write anything good?!? Ok, ok he did bring us Christmas and Oliver and Expectations, but come on, Bleak House!?!...I guess I was just too old when I met Holden Caulfield, you were so right, "everybody is fake" is kind of a juvenile philosophy. Made me think of that passage in Stendhal's The Red and the Black where the old uncle berates Jr. for being a Nihilist...Chinua Achebe surely encapsulates pretty much everything wrong with the global west...In a way so does Tolkien 'nine rings for the race of men who above all else desire power'...nailed it! J.R.R.was reading buddies with C.S.Lewis (also never wrote anythig bad, his Space Trilogy is excellent). I didn't see my Russians in your stack, easier to start them out by following along with a professional narriator in an audio book, but they are all great. What about Proust? Definitetly not for kids, but you seem like a mature reader and In Search of Lost Time is a master piece! Keep up the good work, we're all counting on you!
Hey thanks for watching! I will definitely be checking out more Bradbury, I really connected with his writing, same with Steinbeck. I always meant to read Christmas Carol first from dickens and am not sure how I landed on Bleak House, but it is my first dickens novel. Something about the… bleak vibes I kind of like though haha.
Which is so unfortunate! Without reading Toni for school, I would have never discovered such an amazing author. Hopefully one day they will realize the importance of her work and things will change.
@@mikailalockhart She won the Nobel Prize after Sir Derek Walcott. People know the value of her work😊. I enjoyed your video. I didn't mean to be so random though. Algorithms brought me to you. Glad it did
Hi Mikaila, loved your book haul. I always like to hear real readers offer succinct opinions on literature. Isn't Dandelion a great read! Ever checked out his Martian Chronicals, or The Illustrated Man or (it's almost Halloween) Something Wicked This Way Come? ... Don't you find Tony Morrison to be like a bitter pill?!? Mockingbird delievers the same medicine with more likeable characters. I do have to say though, that line of her's in 'Winter' about the comparitive seasonal whippings is real poetry, captures the cadence of Joyces' last line from The Dead....Did Steinbeck ever write anything bad? He considered Eden his crown jewel, I loved it too but liked Grapes even better. Ma Joad is one of literature's greatest heroines. If you ever need a pick-me-up try out Cannery Row or Tortilla Flat or Travels with Charlie...Speaking of heroines, can't beat those Bronte sisters, their mother must have been proud! Anne is just as good as Emily and Charlotte...Did Dickens ever write anything good?!? Ok, ok he did bring us Christmas and Oliver and Expectations, but come on, Bleak House!?!...I guess I was just too old when I met Holden Caulfield, you were so right, "everybody is fake" is kind of a juvenile philosophy. Made me think of that passage in Stendhal's The Red and the Black where the old uncle berates Jr. for being a Nihilist...Chinua Achebe surely encapsulates pretty much everything wrong with the global west...In a way so does Tolkien 'nine rings for the race of men who above all else desire power'...nailed it! J.R.R.was reading buddies with C.S.Lewis (also never wrote anythig bad, his Space Trilogy is excellent). I didn't see my Russians in your stack, easier to start them out by following along with a professional narriator in an audio book, but they are all great. What about Proust? Definitetly not for kids, but you seem like a mature reader and In Search of Lost Time is a master piece! Keep up the good work, we're all counting on you!
Ooops! Sorry I got in a hurry and mis-attributed my uncle's Nihilism to Stendhal, it was Turgenov, Fathers and Sons...my bad!
Hey thanks for watching! I will definitely be checking out more Bradbury, I really connected with his writing, same with Steinbeck. I always meant to read Christmas Carol first from dickens and am not sure how I landed on Bleak House, but it is my first dickens novel. Something about the… bleak vibes I kind of like though haha.
great ones will keep them on the list
@@asanmuthana6254 yay! Glad you enjoyed :)
Well, you can't go wrong with Toni Morrison✅ Too bad several states are taking steps to ban Morrison's book from school libraries.
Which is so unfortunate! Without reading Toni for school, I would have never discovered such an amazing author. Hopefully one day they will realize the importance of her work and things will change.
@@mikailalockhart She won the Nobel Prize after Sir Derek Walcott. People know the value of her work😊. I enjoyed your video. I didn't mean to be so random though. Algorithms brought me to you. Glad it did
@@joelharris4399haha no worries! Glad you enjoyed :)
@@mikailalockhart Me too🙃