Victober #4 - George Eliot’s Romola!

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @nicholasjohnson5944
    @nicholasjohnson5944 Рік тому +2

    This channel is a new favorite of mine in the Booktube universe!!! Your intelligent critiques, witty quips and love/passion for reading 📚 put a BIG smile to my face- thank you so much for that!!!!! 😀 On a separate note, your setup/interior design aesthetic is GORGEOUS!!!!! The beautiful lamp, the cozy, comfy green throw, the atumnal pillows, the lovely table- I simply LOVE it!!!!! Keep the wonderful content coming and until next time, sensational Mr. Joe!!!!! ✨ 🎉 😀

    • @JoeSpivey02
      @JoeSpivey02  Рік тому

      Oh well this is too much for a booktube newbie to take! You can thank my wealthy heiress wife for setting me up in such grandeur! I'm only just getting started :)

  • @Grace-ju1gp
    @Grace-ju1gp Рік тому +1

    I wonder if his arm ever gets tired

  • @battybibliophile-Clare
    @battybibliophile-Clare Рік тому

    I've not read Romola, but it is the last Eliot to read. Your video has encouraged me to read it ASAP., thanks.

    • @JoeSpivey02
      @JoeSpivey02  Рік тому

      The envy I have for people who are yet to read the books I love! How I wish her brilliance could be unknown to me so that I could live it all over again!

    • @battybibliophile-Clare
      @battybibliophile-Clare Рік тому

      @@JoeSpivey02 oh Joe, I do so agree. I'd love to come fresh to Middlemarch and all of Miss Eliot's other books, Trollope, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Byron, Wordworth, and Coleridge all over again, but then I'd have missed out on the many rereads

  • @ratherrapid
    @ratherrapid 4 місяці тому

    Good Review, though unknown why Mr. Spivey calls this a finger wagger compared to Middlemarch, which is one gigantic didactic monster first word to last. Very little of that here. Romola is the #1 novel written by my account. Musil's Man w/o Qualities #2. Deronda, then Against the Day.

  • @thelefthandedreader6632
    @thelefthandedreader6632 Рік тому

    Ungainly situation is right. I enjoyed knowing about this Eliot novel. I just read Middlemarch for the first time this year!

    • @JoeSpivey02
      @JoeSpivey02  Рік тому +1

      It’s excellent in places. You can see the future writer of Middlemarch throughout. She learnt to stick to the close and personal, which was what she was best at!

    • @thelefthandedreader6632
      @thelefthandedreader6632 Рік тому

      @@JoeSpivey02 , it's cool when you read an author's work, before their "great" work. It can be an interesting project.