Hello! I am Naomi and welcome to my channel! I read a variety of things and genres here. My favourite kind of books include mysteries, classics, Christian fiction, and historical fiction to name a few. I love readathons, tags, challenges and more. Thanks for watching!
Wagrave is suspicious early on, and Lombard rightly concludes he's the killer early on, too. We should have known as a reader to trust Lombard because he has the most worldly experience and doesn't show any sign of class deference.
I hope you enjoy Ka'iulani! I thought it was pretty good. Also, it's so funny because in my watch later playlist, right below this video is a video from JASNA Southwest on Jane Austen and Crime 😆 Kind of a crazy coincidence!
@15:52 - I'm also re-reading The Hobbit this month. This has become an annual September read for me, since it was first published September 21, 1937, and Hobbit Day (Bilbo & Frodo's Birthday) is September 22. Also, J.R.R. Tolkien passed away on September 2, 1973. I'll be following this up with LOTR#1 in October, LOTR#2 in November, and LOTR#3 in December.
I enjoyed a lot of your reviews as RU-vid played them consecutively while I was doing something. It’s extremely clear that the headache device was an extremely painful trigger for you. While acknowledging your pain I don’t feel you’re completely fair to Christie or the book. When I was a child it was discovered that I was allergic to milk; but I found out quickly that when I was away from my mom, I was completely on my own in protecting my digestive system. Once my stepmother made some hot chocolate or something made with milk and I was vomiting all night, and to this day I’m not sure if they ever believed my allergy to milk was real. But not all families are that uncaring or insensitive. There’s no way Christie could have known 100 years ago that her book would hurt you like that today. If you think of it, there’s probably people who can’t even read murder mysteries cuz it’s may be too triggering if they’ve had murders in their families. The whole genre is pretty insensitive in that aspect. I’m gay and Christie has an extremely flamboyantly effeminate character in The Mirror Cracked who works for the photographer and the description comes across as very anti-LGBTQ. But I’m still reading Christie with all her flaws. Sorry to dwell on this, and I do appreciate your reviews.
I just finished reading this section. It took me forever to get here haha. Enjoyed watching later. I have to say listening to the audio of the Washburn translation is really easy to listen to. I think it must be a better translation. The writing is good.
I mostly agree but when you hear about Charlotte "not being romantic" you should understand that it can be just her disappointment talking. She wanted to love and be loved and happy but it didn´t work and now she is OK to be a wife of a Very Stupid Man and I feel so sorry about her. Poor clever cunning Charlotte...
I was obsessed with the movie Matilda growing up. I finally read the book a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it as well. I hope you enjoy your reads. Have a great month.
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I agree with you about the marriage. This was Charlottes only chance for a household of her own, and a real guarantee against starvation. Mr Collin’s wasn’t a wife beater, a gambler, or a spendthrift. He had a job, a home,a position in the community and was looking for someone to make his life comfortable. Charlotte was perfect. Mr. Collin’s was very much like Charlottes own father. I think it is interesting that in the four marriages that occur in the book, Lydia I falls for all romance and fairy tails, but absolutely no depth in the partner. Wicked is looking for a marriage that provides him with money. With Lydia, due to her connections, he gets all of his debts paid, gets an officer commission purchased, a home, her $1000 inheritance, and $100 per year, which was a pretty high annual salary for a family back then. Plus, Lydia is young, pretty, and fun and sees him as a god. She will overlook any transgression he makes. Jane wants someone “good” and “pleasing” in nature. Bingley is perfect for her. He never sees bad in people and they both are gentle and easy in one another’s company. Lizzie I needs someone she can esteem and someone who is her intellectual equal. And, she discovers that she can admire him. It’s also interesting that all three ladies are with men that believe they have found love. Wickem doesn’t say, but based on Lydia’s definition of love,, it is a love match. We also get to see Mr. and Mrs. Bennet as well as Charlottes parents, to a degree. So is correct in saying that people change, and it’s a roll of the dice. Marriages with older women and younger men was common. It just depended on the circumstances. If the women had a dowry or was a widow with money, or a connection. If a man needed someone to run a household, take care of wards or children from a previous marriage. If a man needed children, he would need someone of breeding age, but that wasn’t always the case. Somet8mes he needed someone who could kill, clean and cook a chicken, sew his clothing, and keep his home. Jane Austin’s own-proposal was from a man many years.
I'm not Canadian, but I also hope you guys don't have another term of Trudeau! "The reason I know of this book is Ever After." SAME! I feel like it's a book I SHOULD read but kind of don't want to. 😆 Benedict Arnold is definitely an interesting character. Kind of hard to know what to think about him sometimes, to be honest.
I considered Wargrave faked his death but felt forced to rule it out-- NOT because of Armstrong, but because his body was carried up the stairs without anyone noticing he was still alive. In this way the author did trick me, but not in a fair way that i would have considered believable
The Big Four is my least favorite Christie that I have read so far. It could work better for me short story format, too. I am glad that you had a good reading month in May.
I hopefully going listen to persuasion on audio but have trouble getting though it even when I read it. I did borrow the other Bennett sister from the library didn’t end up reading it but hopefully some day read might see what you think of it .😊
I 100% thinking you are going to hate a book everyone else likes. However, I do love The Other Bennet Sister. I hope it comes around for you. Happy reading!
So happy to find someone who thnks like me. From the very first I could see that this marriage was the best option for Charlotte. I’m shuffed to bits. I want to follow you. Thank you.
Missed the livestream but I am caught up. I don’t think I could have gotten so far if I hadn’t watched the How to Read the Tale of Genji video by Benjamin McEvoy. Really helped with understanding the historical context of some of the stuff that seems weird to my modern eyes.
I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of A Royal Experiment. I love The Other Bennet Sister so it certainly piques my interest, plus learning more of the circumstances leading to the prince becoming regent, sounds very interesting!
Great review! I can totally relate to the feeling of the first run through. English is not my first language and the first time I read it I really couldn’t figure out the scene where Wargrave kills himself, I had a hard time figuring it out, I think it’s some sort of miss- translation. Great book, great reader, you can easily recognize the passion. Keep it coming!
