I read 5 classics in April ...Kafka, Orwell, Dostoevsky and more...

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Hi friends!
Recently, I read 5 amazing classics (plus 1 non-fiction) and I can't wait to talk about them with you!
If you've read any of these books for yourself, I'd love to know what you think of them!!
I hope you're having a wonderful May so far!!
Sending you my very best wishes,
Carolyn Marie :)
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@MartinDSmith Год назад

All booktubers are equal,but some are more equal than others!😉

@Yeahthatshowifeel Год назад

I love The Metamorphosis by Kafka! It was such a strange book but very moving. I was in tears towards the end of the book.

@mylenefrancois Год назад

Kafka is genius. The Trial is one of my favourite classics, I highly recommend. There's a great old b&w movie adaptation by Orson Wells as well. I always enjoy watching your videos! They helped me get me back into reading in English, so thank you. 😊 Also, thank you for making me re-read one of my favourite classics, The Catcher in the Rye. Because I'm French - as my name indicates^^ -, I'll read the Brothers Karamazov in French though, since it wasn't originally written in English. I'll do the same for Camus of course, it makes more sense for me. Looking forward to the next GoT liveshow and good luck with your writing !

@EminAnimE1 Год назад

Fernando Pessoa is very valued here in Portugal, glad you liked him! The Brothers Karamazov only gets better! Enjoy!

@DressyCrooner Год назад

Nice to meet a fellow Gustav Mahler and Dostoevsky fan!

@user-zo9mx5ry6g Год назад

Sou mulher rusa falado lingua portuguesa e eu muito amo poesia portuguesa que Fernando Pessoa. Os irmos Karamazov e uno de meus livros favoritos!

@lola.mia. Год назад

I really love Pessoa

@Carolina-rd3gh 11 месяцев назад

@@user-zo9mx5ry6gQue clássicos russos recomendaria?

@Cubehead27 Год назад

Just finished Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier" yesterday (a series of reflections on his travels among the working class of the industrial cities in northern England) - would definitely recommend, it's a great book

@maad580 Год назад

Kafka might be my favourite author next to dostoevsky. I love the way he balances humour with despair, especially in Metamorphosis. Kafkas also so interesting to research about his relationship with his father

@thenaturalsouls Год назад

I adored Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. It thought me so much about how important communication is, what an important human element it is. It’s a critical piece about falling out of the working or “being useful” system and highlighted the struggles of losing autonomy and more and more abilities of self expression.

@willieluncheonette5843 17 дней назад

" Kafka, the story goes, encountered a little girl in the park where he went walking daily. She was crying. She had lost her doll and was desolate. Kafka offered to help her look for the doll and arranged to meet her the next day at the same spot. Unable to find the doll he composed a letter from the doll and read it to her when they met. 'Please do not mourn me, I have gone on a trip to see the world. I will write you of my adventures.' This was the beginning of many letters. When he and the little girl met he read her from these carefully composed letters the imagined adventures of the beloved doll. The little girl was comforted. When the meetings came to an end Kafka presented her with a doll. She obviously looked different from the original doll. An attached letter explained 'My travels have changed me.' Many years later, the now grown girl found a letter stuffed into an unnoticed crevice in the cherished replacement doll. In summary it said: *Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form."

@lenoraberendt750 Год назад

I read ‘The Metamorphosis’ during my senior year of high school and absolutely loved it. Hearing that you just finished reading it makes me think I should re-read it. Such a great classic. Wonderful vlog as usual. 😀

@nikolaiquack8548 Год назад

I'm so glad you got into the Metamorphosis. Kafka is my favorite author. He speaks to me like no other. I highly recommend you read The Trial next (of his works) :)

@medsm3113 Год назад

Carolyn you're such a ray of sunshine! It's a lovely time always when I listen to you talk about books

@rossetarwen Год назад

What a great update! Thank you, Carolyn, for continuing to share with us :) I loved "The Metamorphosis" in high school -- your description of it as both "fantastic" and "devastating in so many ways" matches my memory of it. I have a copy of Kafka's "Amerika," but have never read it. Maybe I'll add it to my TBR list!

@Vandalle. Год назад

Animal Farm was such a good way of putting across that message, it creates such a clear picture in your head, and everything is done so visually that it is blindingly oblivious. As humans, noticing the subtle changes in the behaviour of animals is much easier than noticing the subtle changes in the behaviour of humans. It sort of takes us out of that human susceptibility to being easily deceived by words over actions, and shines a light perfectly on it at the same time.

@isabelmariamoorealonso666 Год назад

Hope you’re having a good day Carolyn, love you! ✨

@eleanorball7906 Год назад

Recent faves: Daisy Jones & the Six (an amazing audiobook if you’re looking for more), Peril at End House by Agatha Christie, and Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (which I think you would really like!)

@catarinaduraomachado6856 Год назад

So happy you read Fernando Pessoa! Thank you for spreading a little bit of portuguese culture! Now, you should definitely try Saramago! ❤❤❤

@smoothrivera1928 Год назад

I have really been enjoying your content, thank you for what you bring to the booktube community! I especially love your comments on classic literature. Brothers Karamazov is fantastic, my third favorite book of all time. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it!

@mattkean1128 Год назад

Pessoa's Book of Disquiet is great to keep nearby and dip into. There are a couple new editions of some of his works I have my eye on.

@yac2617 Год назад

I finally was able to order Mr Knightley! Thank you soo much! Your work is fantastic, i love your videos ❤️

@brianlehman710 Год назад

Kafka's The Castle is my favorite of his. For something that precedes Kafka in a strangely similar vein, check out Gogol's The Overcoat.

@thebasedgodmax1163 Год назад

so glad you're a fan of Catcher now! it means a lot my favourite Booktuber likes my favourite classic haha!

@cleopatrickk Год назад

Peter Pan and The Brothers Karamazov are two of my favourites 🙌 I recommend Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky as well!

@emilymiller6607 Год назад

I would definitely recommend you read Homage to Catalonia by Orwell since you like war stories (it's a personal account of his involvement in the Spanish Civil War) as well as The Trial by Kafka which riffs on modern bureaucracy so effectively

@magda_mf Год назад

Great picks! Out of these I read and really enjoyed Animal Farm, The catcher in the rye and The Metamorphosis. I recently read Kafka's collection of short stories 'The burrow'. Lots of them are unfinished. It was such an interesting reading experience, gives you a great insight into his creative process 😊

@efluvial Год назад

Have you read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt? One of the characters is a giant octopus named Marcellus. Definite Frederick Bachman vibes, very heart warming!

@user-uc2id5rx2l Месяц назад

The castle of Kafka is excellent

@efluvial Год назад

Got my tote bag yesterday and just loved it!

@YTLawnGnome Год назад

I found the film The Rebel In The Rye which is the biopic of J.D. Salinger to be much better than the book itself. Nicholas Holt did such an amazing job as Salinger. The fact he played Salinger and J.R.R. Tolkien in two different films I believe in one year is quite incredible.

@DavidAPiano Год назад

Really loved your video, and completely felt akin to your researching writers after reading books, i'm the same in books and composers that i read and listen to, i love delving deeper and reading about their lives. I'm currently reading She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan which i'm really enjoying, it reminds me of one of my favourite books The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, although She Who Become the Sun hasn't reached that level for me yet but i'm enjoying it so far.

@jmsl_910 Год назад

just ordered BK. i'm looking forward to it! i hope you got the orange cloth bound book i sent!! just seemed like a cornerstone reference book that you should own!

@MrD5914 Год назад

Love the very Italian hand gesture at 11:29 when you're trying to remember the Bulgakhov quote lol 😂

@ElinoMilanesi Год назад

I am 29 years old married with 2 kids, and I kept the child inside of me. It's very possible. I also wished I appreciated my childhood more 🥰🥰 it's the best

@evanames5940 10 месяцев назад

I so agree with you. When in HS I read Catcher in the Rye which seem to me like eating a dirty sandwich,, but loved it when I read it again in my fifties. Like re-reading The Scarlet Letter, now that I had more insights into all the Characters as I have seen the same faults in myself. May I recommend the complete stories of Mary Poppins.

@marjoriedybec3450 Год назад

I just finished the non-fiction book, "Picasso's War," by Hugh Eakin which I think you should read before you visit the Guggenheim show Picasso in Paris (which you must visit). it was a fabulous read that I enjoyed greatly. Then I read Edith Wharton's "Age of Innocence" which I just loved and yes, it made me cry. I love a book with almost no action and deep contemplative internal struggles. Today I began the newly crowned Pulitzer co-winner, "Trust," by Hernan Diaz. Seemed like a good sequel to "Age of Innocence." I need to read "The Bros K." Cheers.

@jamesduggan7200 Год назад

The cover displayed means nothing without familiarity with the story but knowing what it's about the cover is so cool.

@jamesduggan7200 Год назад

I mean of course Kafka's Metamorphosis, with the bug-eye on one side, which means nothing until you know it's a story about turning into a giant bug. The green background works too but I dont know why

@cafeaulivre Год назад

Pessoa is one of my favorite poets. A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe is another great Pessoa collection.

@denisefreitas6727 Год назад

Hi Carolyn! You've read wonderful books indeed. I'm currently reading The Tempest Sister, second book of The Seven Sisters series, by Lucinda Riley.

@nerd26373 Год назад

we appreciate your effort and hard work god bless you

@scavenger_of_human_sorrow9272 Год назад

I just started reading the Brothers Karamazov too (in German though) and I am about as far in as you are!

@JohnSaxon-vw5vi Год назад

I am 50 years old and still have the child inside of me as I am a big kid lol ❤❤

@jackiesliterarycorner Год назад

I just finished my reread of The Hobbit. I have been meaning to reread for a long time and I finally decided it was time. I have also started collecting all of Tolkien's work. I just bought The Fall of Arthur from Thrift books. I'm reading The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell and Time Again by Jack Finney.

@von20808 11 месяцев назад

You would love the murder mystery book Shady Hollow and the next two books. It's all animal characters with human traits. After awhile I forgot I was reading about animals. I enjoyed it very much.

@creativelytorn Год назад

I somehow have not read any of these, though most are on my TBR. I've recently finished The Sea Wolf and just started Great Expectations.

@Jeroeny Год назад

I like you Carolyn. But because of you I am back at 6 books 'currently reading '. And I just got it back from 6 to 2! Surely The Brothers Karamazov is worth it :)

@stephanievillot21 Год назад

I always think about Boxer from Animal Farm I heard the audiobook at work and I got a bit misty eyed 😂😭😭

@cloudynblu Год назад

I am reading Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet and enjoy it a lot. He writes beautifully for sure

@thebrittannytaylor Год назад

I just finished The Collected Works of Alberto Caerio by Pessoa, and it's the most incredible work I have read in a long time. Please check it out! It's stunning how Pessoa's brain worked.

@circleofleaves2676 Год назад

The live show is 6am on sunday morning my time so I won't make the live show, but I'll be sure to watch the playback. Have fun everyone! I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov at the moment and definitely finding bits quite comedic.

@circleofleaves2676 Год назад

I actually ended up making it and it was a great time!

@randomcinemaniac4303 Год назад

The Brothers Karamazov is a true masterpiece.. You are so lucky that you have ahead of you the first time read. Enjoy!

@tasha7127 Год назад

Ivan Bunin "Dark Avenues"

@Paula-mc2nr Год назад

Could you please do a Kafka print for your etsy shop

@AdrianasWonderland Год назад

I have never read Franz Kafka but I really would love too. Still I am a little intimidated by it...

@user-cc6gw7mf3i Год назад

Great video, as always

@goster4070 Год назад

She has a video up about her hair routine, actually. It's from when she visited Emmie 7 months ago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7mCypfhlSmQ.html I hope that helps. PS: We're all very jealous of her hair, of course! ;)

@user-cc6gw7mf3i Год назад

@@goster4070 Thank you! :) You are awesome.

@WeWiLLRefuse Год назад

I agree on Catcher in the Rye. When I was in high school, I didn't think much of it at all, and then I revisited it when I was about 25 and it had such a profound impact on me. I remember someone referenced Catcher as "a war novel disguised as a coming-of-age story". I took that to mean that much like Holden, Salinger himself was a WWII veteran who felt alienated by society and could not find his place in it. Great video!

@zaftra Год назад

square space must have a big ad budget.

@ElinoMilanesi Год назад

You should try Jules Verne, one of the greatest author of classical french literature. I read so many of his books and LOVED 99% of them.

@circleofleaves2676 Год назад

What would you recommend by Verne? I've only read Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

@ElinoMilanesi Год назад

@@circleofleaves2676 I've read that. I loved _around the world in 80 days_ , _Dr Ox's experiment_ was HILARIOUS, loved _backwards to Britain_ , did not enjoy Magellania , currently reading _20 000 leagues under the sea_

@salindrab4493 Год назад

I've read The Brothers Karamazov at the beginning of this year and I must say I have mixed feelings. There are aspects I think are brilliant and i like very much and there are aspects i don't like at all. I guess I just like the more poetic and atmospheric writing style of Tolstoy so much more.

@Harmosaurus Год назад

I feel you've still read a decent amount even though you say your in a reading slump. Hope BK slings you back in the mood :)

@dSanjeev615 Год назад

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@victoriah.2083 Год назад

My train of thought gets derailed all the time. Someone is always blowing up the tracks. Horrible.

@daryasirina Год назад

hello! i would like to find here lovers of books that speak english! i am from russia, and i am very proud of our literature, i am very glad that many have such a love for our classics. good day to all. ♥

@victoriah.2083 Год назад

I read this a couple of years ago and really hoped it would be more that it was. I thought Holden C was a self-absorbed, spoiled, indulged, privileged brat. He had the opportunities that few people in the U.S. or the rest of the world for that matter could only hope to receive. His love for his siblings are the only qualities that could make his character redeemable. HC's eventual fate still doesn't add much sympathy in my book. His repetitive use of "lousy", "GD", "hell", etc. aren't colorful but irritating. CINTR is "lousy." lol. I am not saying you are wrong to enjoy it the 2nd time around. It is just a matter of opinion. And I do really value yours. Luv yr lousy channel. (I had, to. You know I did. Hahaha.)

@martinelanglois3158 Год назад

Currently reading Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned. I love his way of writing but not what he is saying (a lot of racist comments so far). This diminishes my reading experience greatly. Hoping it gets better towards the end.