Thank you for all you do Lucy your recommendations and passions have helped me really get into reading for pleasure - before this I’ve always hated it because I felt like being at school I was FORCED to read things and that really didn’t sit right with me so I never took it up outside of that... and I felt so bad that I was 16 and still hadn’t read a proper novel outside of school but now I love it and have got through many classics from pride & prejudice, Dracula to Wuthering Heights, Othello and I’m now doing my A level course and we’re studying Frankenstein, Gatsby, Streetcar n Heaney poetry.. thanks again and all the best!! 📚 ❤️
This is the loveliest comment to read! We all have our individual journeys to reading and it doesn't matter how long it takes you to get there, or how much you read along the way, as long as you enjoy it. Good luck with your A Levels! I loved studying The Great Gatsby and Streetcar for mine!
Great ideas there with reading underrated Victorian authors. 💗 One great book I read recently was The Secret Garden. One of things I took from it is that we are what we believe about ourselves. Great story. I loved it so much I ordered one of her other books I heard great things about, "A Little Princess". These are by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
I love classics, but I really struggle with Charles Dickens. It must be true that a foreigner may not be able to enjoy him. I read Middlemarch this year, and is something so good I cannot explain. But I also read Brazilian classics such as Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis and Riacho Doce by José Lins do Rego. The former has translation in English, but I read in Brazilian Portuguese.
If you’re looking at Edwardian writings, I’ve discovered an American writer this year who is wonderful. She’s writing about 1906, but it sounds so modern that I’m amazed it’s not historical fiction instead of actually written in that time. Her name is Maud Hart Lovelace. The first book of hers I read was Heavens to Betsy and Betsy in Spite of Herself. These two stories in one volume chronicle Betsy and her friends in their first and second years in high school is a good place to start although there are books about her childhood, too. Highly recommended.
Lucy, I can relate with you. This year I underwent peculiar situations. Also I felt like to quit reading classics. But whenever I see your videos classic becomes an abode of contentment. I understand why classic was a comfort for me and why I should keep reading them. In this year, I mostly wrote. I have been uploading blog posts, writing poems and short stories and just a few days ago started brainstorming about my novel. The classics which I read this year were somewhat very different. I found a new interest in classic crime fictions. I would love reading more of those in next year. Your videos have never fail to uplift my drooped spirits. Merry Christmas 🎄 Love you 😘
Hello Adrika! It's always such a pleasure to read your lovely comments. I'm sorry to hear that your 2020 hasn't been brilliant, but I'm sending you all my best wishes for the new year ahead. Good luck with your writing, too. How exciting to hear you're brainstorming a novel!
@@lucythereader I too hope that 2021 will craft new hope endowed with ambitions. Best of luck for all the things you planned to achieve in 2021....Happy New Year:)
It's great to see you again, Miss Lucy! Happy New Year. 2020 has been a humbug for sure. But thank God for books!!! What's this you say? Ethan Frome is like Wuthering Heights? Ok, it is definitely going on my 2021 TBR!
And always lovely to read your comments, Linda! I hope you enjoy Ethan Frome. Another book to read like Wuthering Heights is Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. I love it! Sending you best wishes for the year ahead!
Yes, funny old year. Best not to get into reading out of a sense of duty, Lucy, especially when there are university books to tackle too. Besides, I've no idea whether this is a common experience or else it's just me, but it's been very difficult to disengage from the news cycle and the pandemic information overload, so I've spent a lot of time refreshing news sites and trying to get enough of a solid grounding in epidemiology and all that to make sensible judgments. Doesn't leave a huge amount of time, intellectual energy or inclination to read substantial fiction. As mentioned before it was HG Wells this year for me, and come to think of it I did revisit the Sherlock Holmes novels yet again: lightweight comfort reading. Oh, and Don DeLillo's White Noise, which if it isn't a classic will be eventually, and a good fit for strange times.
I wish I could add news articles to my "have read" list because if so, I think I'd be some kind of super reader! I, too, have spent way too much time this year refreshing and scrolling through the news, which has done me very little good at all. Sherlock Holmes is a great idea; I may have to read more in the coming months! Best wishes for 2021!
Allen Raine is great, can't wait to read more by her. I enjoyed Garthowen. Hoorah for underrated Victorian classics ☺️ And I must read Women Who Did, sounds very up my street!
I had the exact same thing happen except I had just started a RU-vid channel posted some videos and disappeared. I just started reading again except now the house is full and where I filmed is taken by people actually working. I feel self conscious filming with people in the house anyway So I feel stuck. Maybe I film on my phone in the car like Peter Mon 👏
I'm close to finishing your first book again. Then I'm jumping head first into the next. Great to see you tubing again! Ohh, to think I used to believe I was the only person in the world reading classic literature once, lol.
There certainly are lots of us out there! I once felt the same too, but feel very lucky to hear from so many people who love classics as much as I do. I hope you enjoy Read with Pride!
Thank you so much for your recommendation of Women Who Did. It is sitting right here on my kitchen table. I haven’t finished all the stories but it’s an excellent selection and has short bios of the authors in the back. It would make a great graduation or birthday gift for a young woman.
It's such an excellent selection, isn't it? So many authors who don't get enough attention, through no fault of their own. I'm glad you're enjoying it!
I read 'Dombey and Son' for the first time this year. I enjoyed the opening and ending but the middle waffled on a bit too much for my liking (which is always my issue with Dickens). But an enjoyable read nonetheless.
One of my goals for the coming year is to read more Dickens! I definitely have a love/hate relationship with his writing. I'm currently reading The Old Curiosity Shop!
Lucy, I mostly wrote short stories and poems this year. However, I have been working on a historical fiction novel for the past two months. There has been a joy lingering about my presence while I write. I have read both of your books this year, The Paper and Hearts Society and Read With Pride. As for classics, I read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I read The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and completely fell in love with it. There have been arduous days this year, but I have found comfort in stories and I feel the force of love in all that is happening. I love you
Shreya, it has been so lovely to read all of your comments this year and to hear about all the writing you've been doing. I am so proud to hear of all your achievements! I have no doubt you will one day write a book to rival L.M. Montgomery's! Sending you my best wishes for 2021 -- and keep writing!
@@lucythereader You have been a lovely friend this year. Thank you so much for all your love. There are many stories living in my head that I am excited to write. It would be funny and interesting if I wrote such a book. Happy New Year, Lucy. I hope 2021 will be a better year for all of us.
My favorite book this year has been so far Trollope's "Miss Mackenzie", even though i did enjoy to read Zola's "La joie de vivre" too from the Rougon Macquart serie. You should read some of his, if you haven't already.
I can totally understand not reading classics when you’re overwhelmed. I’m not big into classics (I’m watching your channel to remedy that!) but I did the same with fantasy reads when I was overwhelmed with education. I just stopped reading them cause they needed too much brain power
One underrated book I’m reading at the moment is Etidorpha by John Uri Lloyd. It apparently was a bit of a cult favourite in the 1890s and even had fan clubs organised for it.
