📙I am so glad you are enjoying reading 🥰Dottie is Lovely ! What a view ! I would have fun snuggling up with Rupert and Luna and just reading ! Love your hanging chair and banner and Granny afghans! What a Lovely place to read ! Thank you for the video Candy 🍬 🍬 The music and the scenes were just Gorgeous ! Was Rupert upset because it is too cold to swim ? They are so cute 😊😊Love you ! Safe travels 🥰🥰💖💖🙏🏻🙏🏻🤗🤗
I love this idea! I'm dying to visit and see all these magical places you call home and nerd out about books hehe. Five stars for Wuthering Heights?! Ok, I'm gonna need to try it again. Yay for Frankenstein! I too wasn't a huge fan of Rebecca but I'm obsessed with other Daphne Du Maurier books, so hopefully you don't let it sway you. The Castle of Otranto is wild! I look forward to hearing how you like A Study in Drowning!
thanks for watching. I find wuthering heights haunts you long after you've read it way more than anything else. its like the fog from the moors descends and doesn't leave. I adore it
This was a delight, Candy, I loved hearing your thoughts on everything you read. I can’t wait for you to read “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - it is one of my absolute favorites. Thank you for sharing! ❤️📚
Thanks for the lovely vlog Candy, loved hearing your thoughts 😄 So glad you enjoyed Castle of Otranto, it’s a wacky ride indeed 🤭 we’re on the same page, the men are the scariest part of that story 😬 also what a beautiful gothic landscape! 💖😍 and the doggies are so cute! thanks for sharing, hope you are doing well! 🙏😄💖🧚♂️📖
Whatever you do, talking about books and decks is your strong suit. And making art obvs, and talking about (making) art. It would be a sad day if you'd decide to drop either/any one of these. And what's wrong with being a 'well read, well spoken, well versed in tarot and all things pretty' wise art witch? A creatrix. So it I may ask - please don't drop any of it! You're a joy to listen to and learn from. ❤
@CandySoulAndSoil you are so very welcome! You've been such an inspiration and teacher in the past year (because I only discovered you at the end of last year, during the christmas challenge, i think). You deserve all the good words, and also thoughts, deeds, things, people you get! ❤️ 🙏 🌞
📚 ❤❤❤ Loved every second of this! I wish I could be there in Wales reading my books 😱😍 I’ve been dying to go for years. What a gorgeous view. Your thoughts on Wuthering Heights: perfect. I remember telling Bailey, one of the things I love about it is that nature seems to be its own entity in the novel. Really interesting take on Rebecca. I read it when I was 19? And have watched the Hitchcock film over and over again. Really clever, she never revealed the character’s name as she was a victim of self effacement. I wonder how I’d feel about it now. I resonated with her, because I WAS that person, and each time I think I’m no longer that person, I find myself in a new friendship or relationship and again, I turn into a people pleaser (my current relationship aside, but I’ve made bad friendships). I think Manderly burning at the end is as it should be yes! And a deliberate choice made by the author. But I didn’t see it that way when I was young, much in the same way I reacted to the ending of Gone With the Wind as a younger person; I find the ending absolute perfection now I’m wiser 😂 Anyway, Daphne Du Maurier is an excellent writer. I’ve read a ton of her works! I’m so glad you enjoyed Castle of Otranto! It wasn’t my favorite, but you’re absolutely right: it was hilarious! 😂 Frankenstein is on my list for a reread. I learned SO MUCH the first time. Of course you can learn from good fiction. I’ve seen a lot of that in recent years: people stepping away from it, but fiction lends a human heart, a human voice to drive the point home, no matter your take on the message (if there is one made by the author, not always). Yes, keep making these videos! You don’t need to swap to book tube. I know that not everyone is going to enjoy my videos where I talk about books, music and film, but it doesn’t bother me 😊
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission thank you Rachel…. Honestly I feel the same way about the main character in Rebecca…. I thought omg this is me/ was me / is often me. I think it’s only with age and battles scars that I could even begin to realise and think “come on girl find your emotional backbone and put out a demand for some respect!” Reading it as a teenager I would never have thought that. Oh the ending of gone with the wind….. so sad about it but really it couldn’t be anything but! So due a reread! Thank you so much for watching and for the tag 🖤
🖤🖤🖤 your words on Rebecca were a reminder to me not to ever succumb to that for another person ever again. I really appreciated it. I should read it again!
@@NicoleACottageWitch hi Nicole thank you for watching. There’s no way I couldn’t get a good start with the books I chose they are wonderful aren’t they 🖤
Adoring this as well! I resonate with what you say about reading fiction as I have always punished myself for reading fiction , at uni because I felt like I should read academic books for my degree and I do it with witchy books too. I have loved reading more fiction this year and Frankenstein atmo. ❤❤❤❤
Loved hearing about your #gothlitnovember books as it’s not a genre I’ve ever read, don’t move to booktube!! I’m in awe of how many books you got through in a week! 🤯🧡xxx
Aww thank you. I think I just will mix it all up here tbh. lol I don’t know how I did it tbh! They seem to have just read themselves. I had to keep checking the date as I’m normally 3 books in a month if I’m doing well! I’m as confused as anybody. I think for me it’s putting my phone down. I’ve realised how time sucking scrolling is but that’s just me I can lose hand a day if I mistakenly click on a short!
I too and just starting to get back into fiction after a long absence. Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre are two of my all time favourites from when I was a child. 📚
Wonderful video, I so enjoyed it as I listened to you and watched the fabulous scenery around you...just pure bliss to curl up with your lovely dogs and become lost in some of the best books ever written. Thankyou dear Candy and lots of love ♥
Wow you are doing so awesome with your reads. I love your reviews Candy. LOL! Rebecca. That book. Daphne du Maurier's characters are so strange but I love them all. Mostly they are just unredeemable but I just can't stop reading her. LOL. I have not read The castle of Otranto. Maybe I need to pick that one up. Big hugs. Can't wait to hear about your next read. 📚❤
@@CandySoulAndSoillol commenting twice ❤ I am loving it. Cried already and it feels so wretched. I feel for him so much but also hate him for being so proud and arrogant to think he could play god in that way. And letting Justine go to her fate knowing his responsibility. 😮💨 ❤❤ I love it so far. Loving all the different classics ranges with beautiful covers as well. Becoming obsessed again ❤❤❤
Love this❤ I intended to start goth lit November with Wuthering Heights but The Witching Hour I’d ordered arrived and I began reading it and can’t put it down! (I may have to if I want to read anything else in November). I’d enjoy listening to book blogs on this channel❤
Ooo perhaps she’s singing to us! 🖤 total Kate bush fan here! My first dog as an adult my terrier maisy …. I learnt from the breeder that Kate bush bought one of her litter mates as she lived up the rd! I’ve dined out in that fact for 25 years 😂🖤
Hi Candy. I love your caravan and the view is amazing. Thanks for talking about the books. Frankenstein would be my favourite. I think fiction can teach us so much. ❤❤😊
Can’t it …. I thought that. Reading Rebecca made me never want to people please again as I got to see what it looks like from an outside of my own skin perspective! It’s irritating and leaves others not knowing where they are with you. I understood more why trying to keep people happy can push them away. It was such a clear lesson that no self help books on people pleasing really ever painted so clearly. 🖤
@CandySoulAndSoil ergh, I hated Rebecca as a younger woman because of this. Now as a middle-aged woman who is in therapy because of my, at times, raging people-pleasing, learnt it had came as a trauma response and CPTSD. Fight, flight or fawn... Fawn kept me alive as a child and helped me navigate RSD as an adult. So now with this lense, the book Rebecca I might have a bit more sympathy for. The same for Wuthering Heights, I may have read that way too young. The toxic intensity I had no time for and Cathy's privilege pissed me off. Maybe because I identified with Heathcliff? Dunno, but I read that over 30yrs ago and I still remember the story well. So ummm yeah. As a dyslexic adhd'er, the speed you are able to read is awe inspiring. Caravan looked lovely and homely, with the dogs, blankets and views. Loving your reviews, throw in the odd matched tarot or oracle deck. Or do a reading for a character that really could've done with the self reflection. 😂
I grew up on Wuthering Heights and have spent my life wanting to be loved like Heathcliff loved Cathy. As a young girl, this got under my skin so deeply that I thought all love should be this way. No wonder I ended up with a broken heart 🙈🙄
So agree Candy ❤about Frankenstein, just started reading it, nothing like I thought it was. Wuthering heights, bit deep, need to get rid of ghosts from the past, was my mother's favourite book, Cathy she loved, yes well, go figure. Must try and read it in a new perspective. Daphne sounds interesting will give it ago. North anger abbey, one for a new perspective. Thank You for introducing gothic month via Becky channel. Love classics. ❤
Oh my gosh I know about that ghosts from the past…. Part of a video about why I stopped reading was going to talk about that. Read it still and claim it back. It’s a stunning book. 🖤
Good To see you Candy, I loved the Prime Movie (Amazon). called Mary Shelley I was stunned at the story of her life and the writing of this book. The ending is stunning. I hope you find it to watch.
📚 Candy, thanks for this, I enjoy listening to you talking about books ! I would like to hear about why you fell out of love with reading fiction. I know it will be fascinating ❤.
** SPOILER ALERT** In Rebecca, its very significant that the novel is called Rebecca.. after the character that never actually appears in book.. but has such a powerful influence over all of the other characters. She manipulated Maxim all through their marriage knowing that he would still keep up appearances to save face. Even when she discovered she was ill she manipulated Maxim by saying something which wasn't true to get him to act the way he did..she wanted revenge even near the end of her life.. Her character ruled everyone throughout the story.. Including our narrator whom we never know the name of..another significance of this story.. she struggles to make a name for herself in the claustrophobic Manderley which is still dominated by Rebecca. Maxim is the only one that knows how vindictive Rebecca was, and even after death everyone else believes how wonderful she was. Our narrator then hears the truth from Maxim about his life with her.. I believe our narrator was orphaned which is why she worked as a companion to the upperclases woman.. as she tells Maxim she has no one else to go to..this is when he asks her to go with him. Du Maurier is a master when it comes to small hidden twists in the story. ✨✨
Netflix has a modern made film of Rebecca.. It's quite a good watch if you love the book. It sort of gives you a better understanding of what Rebecca was really like. ✨
I always get Rebecca and Jane Eyre mixed up too. Think it's because they're both about big old scary houses and secrets of previous wives. lol. Although all I can remember of Jane Eyre is the mad wife in the attic. Never read either of them, just watched the old films. I must give them both a read. 📖
Mary Shelley was a fascinating person -- way ahead of her time. You might want to watch Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca". What an incredible movie -- Sir Laurence Olivier really captured the cold, arrogance of Max and Joan Fontaine was really perfect as the second wife. Olivier was peeved the entire movie because he'd wanted Hitchcock to cast his wife, Vivien Leigh, for the part but Hitchcock believed Leigh was too strong (I have to agree with that). But throughout the filming of the movie Olivier would be rude to Fontaine and Hitchcock encouraged that because it drew out the growing fear and confusion of Fontaine, which translated well on the screen. Thank you for sharing your reads, Candy.
Candy, I completely agree with your take on Rebecca!! To me Maxim de Winter shady and creepy! Had he been honest with his young second wife from the start, this wouldn’t have happened. And the second wife-yea, too young and timid and passive for my taste. I’m 49 years old so you and I are close in age. 😅 My favorite Daphne du Maurier book is My Cousin Rachel and I love the movie featuring Rachel Weisz. You made me want to read Frankenstein which I haven’t read in many, many years, and I will read it soon. ♥️
Thank you Candy, you are inspiring me to pick up Rebecca also. Geez lady...LOL I did see the movie and thought it was really good, but there is so much more to discover about the characters usually in the books. I'm going to check and see if Rebecca is on Audible. I do have Withering Heights in my cart. I loved this. Thank you for sharing. 💜💜💜
That scene stays with me where Cathy is ranting about Heathcliff's faults to the servant with him outside listening and he runs away and then she says oh but I love him. If he'd stayed one more minute to hear that it all wouldn't have happened! Such a haunted book. Frankenstein is so allegorical, makes me think of Prometheus and may be relevant to the monster we've created with climate change. You might enjoy the movie of Rebecca as the portrayal of the 2nd Mrs. DW is on point, though not completely explained, and yes, I just want to shake her! So many gothic novels written by women really focus on the role of women in society and everybody is pretty hateful because relationships are essentially off balance. Men who have other wives hidden away that are rather inconvenient! Thanks for your thoughts on these!
Ooo I love your thoughts on the fact it’s women writing in a time when there was imbalance. Ooo that scene I just love heathcliff even though he’s a total brute. And the way at the end there is no questioning anymore they should be together regardless of what’s expected. It’s consuming my mind a week on still it has an after taste that feels like red velvet and earth….. does that even make sense? It does to me . Thank you Nancy for giving me other things to ponder 🖤
📙I am so glad you are enjoying reading 🥰Dottie is Lovely ! What a view ! I would have fun snuggling up with Rupert and Luna and just reading ! Love your hanging chair and banner and Granny afghans! What a Lovely place to read ! Thank you for the video Candy 🍬 🍬 The music and the scenes were just Gorgeous ! Was Rupert upset because it is too cold to swim ? They are so cute 😊😊Love you ! Safe travels 🥰🥰💖💖🙏🏻🙏🏻🤗🤗
It’s never too cold for Rupert to swim sunshine dawn 😂❤️
I love this idea! I'm dying to visit and see all these magical places you call home and nerd out about books hehe. Five stars for Wuthering Heights?! Ok, I'm gonna need to try it again. Yay for Frankenstein! I too wasn't a huge fan of Rebecca but I'm obsessed with other Daphne Du Maurier books, so hopefully you don't let it sway you. The Castle of Otranto is wild! I look forward to hearing how you like A Study in Drowning!
thanks for watching. I find wuthering heights haunts you long after you've read it way more than anything else. its like the fog from the moors descends and doesn't leave. I adore it
This was a delight, Candy, I loved hearing your thoughts on everything you read. I can’t wait for you to read “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - it is one of my absolute favorites. Thank you for sharing! ❤️📚
Ooo so many people are saying that about Dorian gray I’m so intrigued now 🖤
Love the book 📕 vlog. The caravan trip with the dogs looks idyllic. Now I want to re-read Rebecca
Ooo do it ❤️❤️❤️
I love when you go to the caravan. Such a great video.
Thanks so much!❤️
Thanks for the lovely vlog Candy, loved hearing your thoughts 😄 So glad you enjoyed Castle of Otranto, it’s a wacky ride indeed 🤭 we’re on the same page, the men are the scariest part of that story 😬 also what a beautiful gothic landscape! 💖😍 and the doggies are so cute! thanks for sharing, hope you are doing well! 🙏😄💖🧚♂️📖
@@symphonyofthecards aww I’m glad you enjoyed it thank you for watching. Yes wild seas and castles are perfect for a reading backdrop 🖤
📕 💷 So interesting! The Frankenstein book part got me in the mood to read it. Thank you😊!
Ooo lily I hope you do let me know what you think if you do 🖤
@ Will do😉! Just bought the Kindle version.
Don't move to Book Tube just incorporate some card readings with your books. Im sure that would be Candy Magic for sure
Yes just mix it all up❤️
Whatever you do, talking about books and decks is your strong suit. And making art obvs, and talking about (making) art. It would be a sad day if you'd decide to drop either/any one of these. And what's wrong with being a 'well read, well spoken, well versed in tarot and all things pretty' wise art witch? A creatrix.
So it I may ask - please don't drop any of it! You're a joy to listen to and learn from. ❤
@balconybaroness9156 thank you so much that’s so kind ❤️
@CandySoulAndSoil you are so very welcome! You've been such an inspiration and teacher in the past year (because I only discovered you at the end of last year, during the christmas challenge, i think). You deserve all the good words, and also thoughts, deeds, things, people you get! ❤️ 🙏 🌞
Loved this video and I love Jane Austen too! Fabulous book. Thank you for sharing x
Glad you enjoyed it!❤️
📚Loved this video😚!!!
Thank you so much 📚🖤
📚📚 I love Frankenstein too, one of my favourite books. ❤
Great isn’t it 🖤
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Loved this ❤
Thank you Amanda ❤️
📚 ❤❤❤ Loved every second of this! I wish I could be there in Wales reading my books 😱😍 I’ve been dying to go for years. What a gorgeous view. Your thoughts on Wuthering Heights: perfect. I remember telling Bailey, one of the things I love about it is that nature seems to be its own entity in the novel. Really interesting take on Rebecca. I read it when I was 19? And have watched the Hitchcock film over and over again. Really clever, she never revealed the character’s name as she was a victim of self effacement. I wonder how I’d feel about it now. I resonated with her, because I WAS that person, and each time I think I’m no longer that person, I find myself in a new friendship or relationship and again, I turn into a people pleaser (my current relationship aside, but I’ve made bad friendships). I think Manderly burning at the end is as it should be yes! And a deliberate choice made by the author. But I didn’t see it that way when I was young, much in the same way I reacted to the ending of Gone With the Wind as a younger person; I find the ending absolute perfection now I’m wiser 😂 Anyway, Daphne Du Maurier is an excellent writer. I’ve read a ton of her works! I’m so glad you enjoyed Castle of Otranto! It wasn’t my favorite, but you’re absolutely right: it was hilarious! 😂 Frankenstein is on my list for a reread. I learned SO MUCH the first time. Of course you can learn from good fiction. I’ve seen a lot of that in recent years: people stepping away from it, but fiction lends a human heart, a human voice to drive the point home, no matter your take on the message (if there is one made by the author, not always). Yes, keep making these videos! You don’t need to swap to book tube. I know that not everyone is going to enjoy my videos where I talk about books, music and film, but it doesn’t bother me 😊
@@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission thank you Rachel…. Honestly I feel the same way about the main character in Rebecca…. I thought omg this is me/ was me / is often me. I think it’s only with age and battles scars that I could even begin to realise and think “come on girl find your emotional backbone and put out a demand for some respect!” Reading it as a teenager I would never have thought that.
Oh the ending of gone with the wind….. so sad about it but really it couldn’t be anything but! So due a reread!
Thank you so much for watching and for the tag 🖤
🖤🖤🖤 your words on Rebecca were a reminder to me not to ever succumb to that for another person ever again. I really appreciated it. I should read it again!
Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre are all-time Favourites. I loved Rebecca too. Sounds like you had a great start to #gothlitnovember!
@@NicoleACottageWitch hi Nicole thank you for watching. There’s no way I couldn’t get a good start with the books I chose they are wonderful aren’t they 🖤
📚Awesome vlog! I haven't read Wuthering Heights since high school and you've inspired me to give it a reread!
@@AmysNovelIdeas oooo yes re read it! I think it’s so perfect for a read at this time of year 🖤
Adoring this as well! I resonate with what you say about reading fiction as I have always punished myself for reading fiction , at uni because I felt like I should read academic books for my degree and I do it with witchy books too. I have loved reading more fiction this year and Frankenstein atmo. ❤❤❤❤
@@EmilysTarotandMagick I get that so much Emily 🖤
Loved hearing about your #gothlitnovember books as it’s not a genre I’ve ever read, don’t move to booktube!! I’m in awe of how many books you got through in a week! 🤯🧡xxx
Aww thank you. I think I just will mix it all up here tbh. lol I don’t know how I did it tbh! They seem to have just read themselves. I had to keep checking the date as I’m normally 3 books in a month if I’m doing well! I’m as confused as anybody. I think for me it’s putting my phone down. I’ve realised how time sucking scrolling is but that’s just me I can lose hand a day if I mistakenly click on a short!
I too and just starting to get back into fiction after a long absence. Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre are two of my all time favourites from when I was a child. 📚
@@LouValcourt lou isn’t it fun to rediscover 🖤
Wonderful video, I so enjoyed it as I listened to you and watched the fabulous scenery around you...just pure bliss to curl up with your lovely dogs and become lost in some of the best books ever written. Thankyou dear Candy and lots of love ♥
@@irenefiggess1852 thank you Irene 🖤
Wow you are doing so awesome with your reads. I love your reviews Candy. LOL! Rebecca. That book. Daphne du Maurier's characters are so strange but I love them all. Mostly they are just unredeemable but I just can't stop reading her. LOL. I have not read The castle of Otranto. Maybe I need to pick that one up. Big hugs. Can't wait to hear about your next read. 📚❤
Thank you so much laurika! I love that word unredeemable…. They so are! 🖤
Ooooh yay! Omgsh im loving it - I’m reading Frankenstein atmo ❤❤❤
Oo are you enjoying it Emily 🖤
@@CandySoulAndSoillol commenting twice ❤ I am loving it. Cried already and it feels so wretched. I feel for him so much but also hate him for being so proud and arrogant to think he could play god in that way. And letting Justine go to her fate knowing his responsibility. 😮💨 ❤❤ I love it so far. Loving all the different classics ranges with beautiful covers as well. Becoming obsessed again ❤❤❤
It’s a great obsession Emily 🖤
Love this❤ I intended to start goth lit November with Wuthering Heights but The Witching Hour I’d ordered arrived and I began reading it and can’t put it down! (I may have to if I want to read anything else in November). I’d enjoy listening to book blogs on this channel❤
Oooo yes! The witching hour is a mammoth! It was my read for October. I hope you love it as much as i did! It fits great with goth lit November too 🖤
A week of cozy gothic reading sounds divine🕯️
That Kate Bush song is one of my forever favs
So funny, in it ‘Cathy’ sounds like ‘Candy’ 😹💋
Ooo perhaps she’s singing to us! 🖤 total Kate bush fan here! My first dog as an adult my terrier maisy …. I learnt from the breeder that Kate bush bought one of her litter mates as she lived up the rd! I’ve dined out in that fact for 25 years 😂🖤
@CandySoulAndSoil 👏😎😸❤️
Hi Candy. I love your caravan and the view is amazing. Thanks for talking about the books. Frankenstein would be my favourite. I think fiction can teach us so much. ❤❤😊
Can’t it …. I thought that. Reading Rebecca made me never want to people please again as I got to see what it looks like from an outside of my own skin perspective! It’s irritating and leaves others not knowing where they are with you. I understood more why trying to keep people happy can push them away. It was such a clear lesson that no self help books on people pleasing really ever painted so clearly. 🖤
@CandySoulAndSoil ergh, I hated Rebecca as a younger woman because of this. Now as a middle-aged woman who is in therapy because of my, at times, raging people-pleasing, learnt it had came as a trauma response and CPTSD. Fight, flight or fawn... Fawn kept me alive as a child and helped me navigate RSD as an adult. So now with this lense, the book Rebecca I might have a bit more sympathy for.
The same for Wuthering Heights, I may have read that way too young. The toxic intensity I had no time for and Cathy's privilege pissed me off. Maybe because I identified with Heathcliff? Dunno, but I read that over 30yrs ago and I still remember the story well. So ummm yeah.
As a dyslexic adhd'er, the speed you are able to read is awe inspiring.
Caravan looked lovely and homely, with the dogs, blankets and views.
Loving your reviews, throw in the odd matched tarot or oracle deck. Or do a reading for a character that really could've done with the self reflection. 😂
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on these classics. I would like to hear about your system of annotating and how you use the tabs.
Thank you so much for watching and yes I will make a video about that 🖤
@@CandySoulAndSoil Thank you!
Just loved this Candy - books & beach - heaven!
@@houseofhag thank you lovely 🥰
I grew up on Wuthering Heights and have spent my life wanting to be loved like Heathcliff loved Cathy. As a young girl, this got under my skin so deeply that I thought all love should be this way. No wonder I ended up with a broken heart 🙈🙄
lol I thought as I was reading “omg I’m still so besotted with heathcliff and that’s why I’m wise to have stopped dating” 😂🖤
So agree Candy ❤about Frankenstein, just started reading it, nothing like I thought it was. Wuthering heights, bit deep, need to get rid of ghosts from the past, was my mother's favourite book, Cathy she loved, yes well, go figure. Must try and read it in a new perspective. Daphne sounds interesting will give it ago. North anger abbey, one for a new perspective. Thank You for introducing gothic month via Becky channel. Love classics. ❤
Oh my gosh I know about that ghosts from the past…. Part of a video about why I stopped reading was going to talk about that. Read it still and claim it back. It’s a stunning book. 🖤
Good To see you Candy, I loved the Prime Movie (Amazon). called Mary Shelley I was stunned at the story of her life and the writing of this book. The ending is stunning. I hope you find it to watch.
Pamela I’m going to seek it out 🖤
I just read Study in Drowning and I LOVED IT
Ooo great I hope I do too 🖤
📚 Candy, thanks for this, I enjoy listening to you talking about books ! I would like to hear about why you fell out of love with reading fiction. I know it will be fascinating ❤.
Aww thank you 🖤
** SPOILER ALERT** In Rebecca, its very significant that the novel is called Rebecca.. after the character that never actually appears in book.. but has such a powerful influence over all of the other characters. She manipulated Maxim all through their marriage knowing that he would still keep up appearances to save face. Even when she discovered she was ill she manipulated Maxim by saying something which wasn't true to get him to act the way he did..she wanted revenge even near the end of her life.. Her character ruled everyone throughout the story.. Including our narrator whom we never know the name of..another significance of this story.. she struggles to make a name for herself in the claustrophobic Manderley which is still dominated by Rebecca. Maxim is the only one that knows how vindictive Rebecca was, and even after death everyone else believes how wonderful she was. Our narrator then hears the truth from Maxim about his life with her.. I believe our narrator was orphaned which is why she worked as a companion to the upperclases woman.. as she tells Maxim she has no one else to go to..this is when he asks her to go with him. Du Maurier is a master when it comes to small hidden twists in the story. ✨✨
Ooo I can tell you love the book. Thank you so much for this 🖤📚
Netflix has a modern made film of Rebecca.. It's quite a good watch if you love the book. It sort of gives you a better understanding of what Rebecca was really like. ✨
There is a story on prime about Mary Shelley. Very enlightening!
Ooo thank you I’ll see if I can find it ❤️
I always get Rebecca and Jane Eyre mixed up too. Think it's because they're both about big old scary houses and secrets of previous wives. lol. Although all I can remember of Jane Eyre is the mad wife in the attic. Never read either of them, just watched the old films. I must give them both a read. 📖
I’m glad I’m not the only one ❤️
Mary Shelley was a fascinating person -- way ahead of her time. You might want to watch Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca". What an incredible movie -- Sir Laurence Olivier really captured the cold, arrogance of Max and Joan Fontaine was really perfect as the second wife. Olivier was peeved the entire movie because he'd wanted Hitchcock to cast his wife, Vivien Leigh, for the part but Hitchcock believed Leigh was too strong (I have to agree with that). But throughout the filming of the movie Olivier would be rude to Fontaine and Hitchcock encouraged that because it drew out the growing fear and confusion of Fontaine, which translated well on the screen. Thank you for sharing your reads, Candy.
Oo Beth that sounds awesome I’ll try track the film down 🖤
Candy, I completely agree with your take on Rebecca!! To me Maxim de Winter shady and creepy! Had he been honest with his young second wife from the start, this wouldn’t have happened. And the second wife-yea, too young and timid and passive for my taste. I’m 49 years old so you and I are close in age. 😅 My favorite Daphne du Maurier book is My Cousin Rachel and I love the movie featuring Rachel Weisz. You made me want to read Frankenstein which I haven’t read in many, many years, and I will read it soon. ♥️
Honestly I wonder how they got together in the first place he seems so off from the get go doesn’t he 🖤
Northanger Abbey a 📚 not ever wanted to read until now ❤
@@ClairtT4040 do you think you will? 🖤
@CandySoulAndSoil I think a trip to the library is coming up 🤗
Thank you Candy, you are inspiring me to pick up Rebecca also. Geez lady...LOL I did see the movie and thought it was really good, but there is so much more to discover about the characters usually in the books. I'm going to check and see if Rebecca is on Audible. I do have Withering Heights in my cart. I loved this. Thank you for sharing. 💜💜💜
@@AmethystAscensionTarot aww Rachele thank you for watching 🖤
Im reading the Mexican Gothic trilogy by Sylvia Moreno Garcia for Gothicvember
Ooo are you enjoying it ❤️
Loved your reflections! 📚 ❤
@@MeadowlarkMystic Renee thank you 🖤
That scene stays with me where Cathy is ranting about Heathcliff's faults to the servant with him outside listening and he runs away and then she says oh but I love him. If he'd stayed one more minute to hear that it all wouldn't have happened! Such a haunted book. Frankenstein is so allegorical, makes me think of Prometheus and may be relevant to the monster we've created with climate change. You might enjoy the movie of Rebecca as the portrayal of the 2nd Mrs. DW is on point, though not completely explained, and yes, I just want to shake her! So many gothic novels written by women really focus on the role of women in society and everybody is pretty hateful because relationships are essentially off balance. Men who have other wives hidden away that are rather inconvenient! Thanks for your thoughts on these!
Ooo I love your thoughts on the fact it’s women writing in a time when there was imbalance. Ooo that scene I just love heathcliff even though he’s a total brute. And the way at the end there is no questioning anymore they should be together regardless of what’s expected. It’s consuming my mind a week on still it has an after taste that feels like red velvet and earth….. does that even make sense? It does to me . Thank you Nancy for giving me other things to ponder 🖤
@@CandySoulAndSoil Red velvet and earth....very Crimson Tide (which is such a great gothic movie!). Take care dear Candy! 🥰