My name is Lucy Powrie, and I'm an author, booktuber and book blogger from the UK. In 2019, my debut novel for teenagers, The Paper & Hearts Society, was published by Hodder Children's Books in the UK, Australia, Ireland and South Africa.
I am a lover of classics, particularly books written during the Victorian period, and for 2018 and 2019 have been the Brontë Society's Young Ambassador. It is my aim to make the classics more accessible and show that they can be read by anyone - whether you've studied English Literature or not; whether English is your first language, or second, or third, or fourth; or whether you feel you're not "intelligent" enough. I strongly believe that classics are for everyone.
I hope you enjoy my channel. Happy reading!
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I wanted to do revolutions after a111 but stuck to my guns and went on with d120. I am regretting it a bit now and re-evaluating my future modules. Good video by the way 👍
Uma opinião: O final do livro não teve uma intenção de encerrar a história "de forma que um escritor faria" (de forma impressionante, inspiradora, inusitada, surpreendente, marcante, etc), mas sim como uma extensão da própria história e não como "um objeto à parte da narrativa"... A vida simplesmente acaba, e justamente no comum e ordinário, as pessoas morrem e nada de especial acontece antes, durante ou depois. A vida de repente vai embora tão rápido, de forma tão estranhamente banal e natural, que chega a causar estranheza pulseira o acontecimento tão comum... Sem nenhuma música tocando ao fundo naqueles momentos finais, sem aqueles raios de luz que acidentalmente marca tanto aquela cena, e para piorar as vezes acontece tão rápido que normalmente a situação fica tão banal que você até se pergunta se.a pessoa morreu enquanto você estava olhando para algum detalhe na parede, ou enquanto olhava algum detalhe da pessoa, alguma cicatriz pequena, a pele que já fica fina e parece quase pousada acima da carne, ou ainda no meio de um piscar de olhos. Então acredite, o final com diz exatamente com o livro e a sua narrativa, pois a ideia de querer quebrar "a quarta parede" chega no ponto de possivelmente ter arriscado as suas credenciais como escritor, ao tornar o fim da sua obra não mais como um livro vais algo para conseguir transcender das páginas e letras, eles atingir justamente como pessoas não como leitores. É esse sentimento o que deve ser usado para harmonizar (Como aquela história de comer tal coisa com vinho Y) junto com livro, se possível tente guardar esse sentimento quando voltar a ler o livro novamente!!! Pode até dar uma roubadinha, ler algumas algumas páginas do final para voltar a sentir o gosto dessa sensação e sentimentos, então voltar a ler normalmente mas sem muita presa.. 😉
Lockwood also doesn't seem to judge people or situations correctly.. I always laugh when he calls Heathcliff a capital fellow and a kindred spirit; clearly not cluing in to what's taking place in front of him. So that also adds to the mystery of the narrations my opinion
I tried to read some Thomas Hardy as a young teen after having read some other Victorian books, Jane Eyre and David Copperfield. I was unable to get into the Hardy at all. Now that I am in my 70s, I will return to Hardy on your recommendation.
Feels like you totally missed the point of asceticism. But that's not surprising given you're a woman - no offence. Women are too materialistic to appreciate the concept.
i have to agree in everything you said!! I LOVED this book so much& it’s my all time fav. i felt so sorry for cathy and heathcliff, i think both of them were sure good people in heart, but cathy was neglected by her father and heathcliff was mentally and physically abused. i definitely don’t think of this book as ‘love story’ or ‘romance’ but more as a reality of what it is like when 2 abused, broken and traumatised people love each other, bc they only had each other the whole life. in the end i loved cathy and hareton! i think hareton was like ‘advanced’ heathliff, we was more self aware and was really trying to be nice to cathy, maybe to impress her and stuff. cathy was in my opinion a little similar to her mother, bc of her energetic personality, she was so full of life and empathetic. i loved the hopeful ending too!!!
I love this video - and all of your videos! - thank you so much for sharing and I am looking forward to more in the future! I love the Book Club style - it feels like a lovely chat! Thank you! ❤️🌈📚
I always wish someone would call Mary Taylor out for her frequently crude remarks to and about Charlotte. I don't know why Charlotte put up with her. I would have told her to go to hell😂
I’m Lebanese Moroccan and I have to say that I’m glad that you want to read Arab literature, starting with Naguib Mahfouz. His works are taught in many Arab countries as part of our syllabus in Arabic. Palace Walk is the first book in a trilogy that he wrote knows as the Cairo trilogy. Although I wouldn’t say that that’s the best book to start by him. I’d say books that you could potentially start by him are “The Thief and Dogs”, The Karnak Cafe, Cairo Modern and Miramar.
This is such a great vibe. I read Jonathan Strange years ago and really enjoyed it. I remember at the time that it was recommended as an Audible pick on a podcast because, by choosing such a long book with a single credit, you were 'sticking it to the man'. Now I'm reading War and Peace (again) and the Stormlight Archive, so 1000+ page books are no problem! I bought Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights last month in the beautiful Penguin Classics Deluxe editions. I read them both years ago and it's high time for a reread. I love those editions, with the deckle edges and the artwork on the covers. My copy of War and Peace is in the same edition too.
Oh my goodness. Paused at 2:41 to say how much I feel seen when you started discussing autism and masking. I was already subbed on the back of some of your Hardy content, but now I'm super thrilled to find another autistic book-loving content creator. Thank you for sharing what you do. It really helps!
I enjoyed The Secret History but loved If We Were Villians more and is a favourite of mine. I still need to read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and Jane Eyre. Love how many books you have everywhere, i do as well. 🙂📚
I, also, recently read "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for the first time and I, also, imagined what it would have been like reading it, if I had not already known the BIG REVEAL - which made it quite fun, much more fun than I had expected! "Jane Eyre" is one of my favorites, and I agree, Jane is a strong heroine who knows herself and stands by her principles, even when pressured by those she loves the most. In too much of fiction, the lady loses her brain and her gumption when she loses her heart!
Because of your love of Charlotte Bronte, have you read Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell? It’s a reimagining of the Brontes life through the eyes of Emily. It’s absolutely brilliant.
The secret History by DonnaTartt, I unfortunately bought and read this book recently. What a mistake! By the end I wanted to slap each and every character in the book and tell them to get a life, and grow up. Real life doesn't look anything like this. Talk about depressive, kept reading it hoping a decent story might come up but it never did. Disliked it enormously, maybe I missed something, but I found it very pretentious. Trying to be Salenger, but totally missed.
Girl I loved this video so much I Love the idea of book club it was so much fun You seem so much more relaxed and like you feel comfortable with yourself in this video from previous ones I have watched in the past I have The Secret History on my TBR but I have not started it yet I tend to be a seasonal reader and the first page or so mentions snow so then I think well read it in winter is it all based in colder weather
Lucy, I am Shreya Ganguly and this is my new RU-vid account. I have treasured my experiences of watching your videos, finding points of connection within our literary conversations, and commenting on each of these magical recordings. It truly feels as though you and I are in the same room, reading and writing among one another without a single note of separation. I began watching your videos when I was at the start of secondary school and I am now a few months away from embarking on higher education whenever that opens. I am writing a new novel, constantly trying to enliven the manuscript throughout the chapters. Most of all, I write for the energy of every line and the ties characters with themselves. I recently read The Secret History by Donna Tartt, a contemporary novel that belongs to the mystery and thriller genre. And yet, the novel is more of a psychological character study than anything else. I particularly studied it for a novel writing class to better understand the structure of a novel and the techniques I can employ. The book took weeks and weeks for me to finally finish reading it, but the metafictional nature of Richard's narration and the sonic quality of the sentences paired together kept me reading. My view of the characters evolved with the story as Richard's role is that of an observer, leaving my perceptions of Henry and Francis to be transformed by the second half of the story. The story is a modern tale, still feeling in conversation with fiction from the late Victorian period and early twentieth century. There is a dreamy mist about the story, bringing us to want to be alongside the characters even if they are not the most likable. Being a campus novel, there are movements contained by an electrifying sense of atmosphere that transports me to the Vermont fictional town and makes me a part of the side characters as well. I hope to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke soon as well as explore Robert Louis Stevenson for the first time. Happy Belated Birthday to our kindred spirit, Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre is a text I always feel like returning to, the journey delineated in it summoning me whenever I need someone to show me the way. I wish you the best of luck on your current writing projects as I love simple and joyful stories involving neurodivergent book lovers akin to us. I am looking forward to the prospect of visiting England this summer and its many literary locations across Bath as well as the Yorkshire moors if time allows. Thank you for supporting me through this road from a distance. I love you
Loved this video. I bought a copy of The Secret History last week and hearing you talk about it, it's just travelled up my TBR 😁 I have just finished Jane Eyre for the first time and loved it, straight away I have started to watch the Ruth Wilson adaptation!
Jonathan Strange was pretty awesome, as I recall. It almost justifies being a thousand pages long, which is more than some books a third of its size have done for me.
Lucy, I'm so glad you're back and so wonderful to see you fully yourself! Congrats with getting a diagnosis that helps you understand yourself and remove the mask. I rarely read classics, but am interested in reading more and starting slowly (like maybe one a month). I'm going to Bath in a little over a month so I'm going to do a little search to see what themed reading I can do with that. I'm thinking Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein for sure!
I've been watching for a long while now. You seem like a new person and I love that you're still writing. I feel the same way about The Secret History it's written so beautifully.
Oh Lucy, so lovely to have you back and thank you for hosting Book Club! ❤ I loved your reading of "Jane Eyre" and thoughts on the book and Charlotte as well. I do hope that she is able to look down from heaven and see how much she is loved and adored. So, I read a really difficult book for my book club: Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," and upon finishing it, I immediately reached for Austen's "Emma" for a re-reading as I needed to be some place that was not so very dreary as the 1905 Chicago stockyards. What is somewhat amusing in regards to both books is that they both open with a wedding! They begin the same but the comparisons end there. My brother has read "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" TWICE ... it's one of his favorites. Happy reading!
I love Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because it’s great but mostly because it has, in my opinion, the BEST joke in any classic literature: “if he shall be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek” Like, come on 😂🙌🏻
I'm reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde soon for one of my university classes and your review has made me even more excited to read it!! This was such an informative and fun video!
Lucy you are like Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Hardy's Tess or Jane Ausen's Elizabeth Bennet, one of our beloved characters and so young. Congratulations and thanks for your energry.
As someone with Autism I struggle with keeping my passions in check and understanding that people dont take my hobbies as passionately/seriously as I do and im finding the booktube community really welcoming and loving finding like-minded people. Ive subscribed and am looking forward to your future content :)
