I think if you're new to reading classics watching the movie first can make it so much easier and more enjoyable. People get so stuck in weird rules for reading when it's just a hobby that's meant to be enjoyed, and if you're stuck in the language you'll be put off and not want to read more classics or move to harder books.
@Kyle4k9
5 ай бұрын
A copy of The Wind in the Willows just arrived for me, minutes ago. I've heard you and Emma celebrate it, and Malcolm Guite has devoted two videos to it so far this month. I'm sure it will give me what I always hope for in reading: an interval to remember that what is going on around me is not real. ... Travel safely and happily!
@starlasell5698
5 ай бұрын
❤📚 Wonderful! Happy reading to you.
@cecethompson914
5 ай бұрын
I have 50 pages left in reading East of Eden. It is definitely one of my best reads ever and has resparked my desire for reading classics. I’m going to read Grapes of Wrath next.
@a.liz.g7531
5 ай бұрын
Every time YT notifies me of your videos I get so happy :) Beautiful books!
@hmm6411
5 ай бұрын
Your choice makes sense. Safe trip and happy reading! Thanks for the video.
@denisefreitas6727
5 ай бұрын
Wonderful editions indeed! I've read Sense and Sensibility in March, and i liked it very much. Happy readings, Carolyn! 💖
@CarolynMarieReads
5 ай бұрын
So glad to hear! I’m also (currently) enjoying it very much 😊 Happy reading, Denise!
@magda_mf
5 ай бұрын
Oooooh I love the In Bloom editions! 😍 might have to get one of them for myself 😅
@magda_mf
5 ай бұрын
Oh and you got Kafka too! One of my favourites 🥰 Although I haven't read the Letters to Milena yet so I'll be waiting for your review 😁
@__rishikasingh
5 ай бұрын
Beautiful books and beautiful you! A deadly combo !!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@Pizzageek-jc4xp
5 ай бұрын
i wish my son could meet a girl like Caroline
@CarolynMarieReads
5 ай бұрын
😊😊😊
@jackiesliterarycorner
5 ай бұрын
I recently ordered off of Thrift books Viajero (Traveler) by F. Sionil Jose, Hood and Scarlet by Stephen R. Lawhead, and The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene J. Chai.
@martinelanglois3158
5 ай бұрын
I wish you a very nice and safe trip. Have fun reading! ❤📚
@CarolynMarieReads
5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@deblawrence8341
5 ай бұрын
Your copy of "Sense and Sensibility" is so beautiful! I'm re-reading "Emma" after many, many years of her sitting on the book shelf. That Mr. Knightley! He's such a handsome gentleman. 🥰
@beatricemkhambe3091
5 ай бұрын
Letters to Milena is fantastic! I read it a couple of months ago and I really loved it. I enjoy reading Kafka’s diaries and letters more than his novels.
@CarolynMarieReads
5 ай бұрын
So glad to hear!
@zahrablythe3376
5 ай бұрын
I'm the same carolyn. I prefer to watch the adaptations of the books(if there would be any), then read them. I did it with many books and novel like the painted veil, the hunger games, Jane eyre, little women. As you said it kinda makes the process of reading the books more enjoyable.
@365tage9
5 ай бұрын
Awesome books and video as well. I am gonna get Kafka's book. Also let us know beforehand when you would start East of Eden. I am really going to read this with you. :)
@CarolynMarieReads
5 ай бұрын
Wonderful! I’ll make sure to let you (and everyone) know beforehand 😊
@almatoledo1608
5 ай бұрын
I am reading Heart of Dog by Mijail Bulgákov :)
@cassiopeiathew7406
5 ай бұрын
I don’t know if you’ve done this before but have you ever considered doing a hair care video? You’re hair looks so healthy and has so much volume, my curls aren’t as tight but I have very wavy hair and I have a lot of difficulty taking care of it because it’s so different to everybody’s in my family since I’m adopted that nobody really knows how to take care of it since the products that work on theirs don’t work on mine
@treya7165
5 ай бұрын
Hi Carolyn! Which edition of Letters to Milena do you have?
@circleofleaves2676
5 ай бұрын
It's the Shocken Books Inc edition (part of the Shocken Kafka Library series)
@booklady8888
5 ай бұрын
Hi, Do you read any series?
@CarolynMarieReads
5 ай бұрын
I have and I do, but not very often :)
@PowerAvocado
5 ай бұрын
what to do to have a perm?
@ginny4e
5 ай бұрын
Please look for Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave!
@CarolynMarieReads
5 ай бұрын
Will do 😊
@willieluncheonette5843
5 ай бұрын
"I would like to tell you one of the most beautiful parables that has been written down the centuries. Parables have almost disappeared from the world because those beautiful people - Jesus, Buddha, who created many parables - have disappeared. A parable is not an ordinary story, a parable is a device - a device to say something which cannot ordinarily be said, a device to hint at something which can be hinted at only very indirectly. This parable is written in this age; a very rare man, Franz Kafka, has written it. He was really a rare man. He struggled hard not to write because, he said, what he wanted to write could not be written. So he struggled hard but he could not control the temptation to write, so he wrote. And he wrote in one of his diaries,”I am writing because it is difficult not to write, and knowing well that it is difficult also to write. Seeing no way out of it, I am writing.” And when he died, he left a will in the name of one of his friends to say, “Please burn everything that I have written - my diaries, my stories, my parables, my sketches, my notes. And burn them without reading them. Because this is the only way that I can get rid of that constant anxiety that I have been trying to say something which cannot be said. And I could not resist so I have written. Now this is the only way. I have written it because I could not control myself. I had to write knowing well that it could not be written, so now, without reading it, destroy, burn everything utterly. Nothing should be left.” But the friend could not do it. And it is good that he did not. This is one of Kafka’s parables. Listen to it, meditate over it. “I gave order for my horse to be brought from the stable. The servant did not understand me. I myself went to the stable, saddled my horse and mounted. In the distance I heard a bugle call. I asked him what this meant. He knew nothing and had heard nothing. At the gate he stopped me, asking,’Where are you riding to, Master?’ ‘I don’t know,’ I said, ‘only away from here. Away from here, always away from here. Only by doing so can I reach my destination.’ ‘And so you know your destination?’ he asked. ‘Yes,’ I answered. ‘Did not I say so? Away from here - that’s my destination.’ ‘You have no provisions with you, ‘ he said. ‘I need none,’ I said. ‘The journey is so long that I must die of hunger if I don’t get anything along the way. No provisions can save me because the journey is so long, I cannot carry enough provisions for it. No provisions can save me because it is, fortunately, a truly immense journey.'” Now this is the parable. “The destination,” he says, “is away from here. Away from here is my destination.” That’s how the whole world is moving: away from here, away from now. You don’t know where you are going but one thing is certain - you are going away from here, away from now. The parable says it is an immense journey. It is really endless because you can never reach away from here. How can you reach “away from here”? Wherever you will reach, it will be here. And again you will be trying to go away from here. There is no way to reach this destination. If away from here is the destiny then there is no way to reach it. And we are all escaping away from here. Watch. Don’t allow this parable to become your life. Ordinarily everybody is doing this - knowingly, unknowingly. Start moving into the here, start moving into the now. And then there is tremendous happiness - so much so that it starts overflowing from you. Not only you delight in it, it starts overflowing, it starts becoming your climate, it becomes like a cloud around you. So whoever comes close to you becomes full of it. Even others will start partaking of it, participating in it. And the more you have, the more you will be drowning into the herenow. Then a moment comes when you don’t have any space left for yourself - only happiness exists; you disappear. But of two things - the past and the future - be alert."
@rocioe.4190
5 ай бұрын
Super unrelated but drop that hair routine 😭
@kimberlyrecio4136
5 ай бұрын
The book is gorgeous, but my least favorite Austen story!
@brentmonnett953
5 ай бұрын
Currently reading Dostoyevsky, who is always enchanting! I love your content!
@deblawrence8341
5 ай бұрын
LOVE Dostoyevsky! Which book are you reading?
@brentmonnett953
5 ай бұрын
@@deblawrence8341 Devils, translated by Michael R. Katz! This is my second Dostoyevsky experience. My introduction to him was with The Idiot, which I loved.
@jamesduggan7200
5 ай бұрын
Am I wrong to think that Sensibility and Sense wouldn't work? Why is that?
@janeturner9064
5 ай бұрын
Agree - it just doesn't sound right.
@kimbarbeaureads
5 ай бұрын
I fell in love with Alan Rickman as Col. Brandon. What you were saying about children's books made me think of Everything I Need to Know I Learned From A Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow. So cute.
@bananabeak826
5 ай бұрын
Gorgeous edition of Sense and Sensibility! It's my favourite Austen and I'm excited for you to read it 😊 that film is one of my favourites too! I've recently read East of Eden along with a book club (intro video here, highly recommended! kzitem.info/news/bejne/2H-ktq2FiGJ8dW0si=cWxpnUmjY2iAJRKG) I think you'll really like it, is any of your travel to California?
@carolynmonahan2488
5 ай бұрын
Yes, I need to read East of Eden so do let us know when to start with you.
@thaliafernandez1378
5 ай бұрын
Hi Carolyn! 🫶🏻
@neshkavirdure8289
5 ай бұрын
😃What A Gorgeous Edition Of Sense and Sensibiliry( My Most Favorite Jane Austen Novel) And LOVE the 1995 Adaptation Film Of It😃😊📚📚📚I Most Definitely Need to Reread This😊📚
@sanddab
5 ай бұрын
'Sense and Sensibility' is one of my favorite movies. I've watched it countless times. I'm with you regarding the font size. That edition looks perfect.
@neshkavirdure8289
5 ай бұрын
Have to have Puff and Bloom's Edition of Sense and Sensibility: Will Put on My Wish List😊📚😃Letters to Melana Sounds Sooo Interesting😊
@janniszeiger
5 ай бұрын
I love Kafka. My mum told me I should read his works and she was so right. Thanks, Mummy.
@ellarose8696
5 ай бұрын
If Carolyn thinks they’re beautiful, the imagery has to be 😍
@ooousuario
5 ай бұрын
Hi, Carolyn! do you ever read ebooks?🤔 Loved the video🤩
@Heartonmysleeve-gj1kp
5 ай бұрын
I recently watched the 1961 adaptation of Anna Karenina(the lead actress was excellent).I see it's on KZitem with Spanish subtitles.😂 You will be disappointed to hear they thought Levin's presence wasn't required!!! Enjoy your break!
@ChristinaMBasler
5 ай бұрын
😱 Levin and Anna are meant to foul each other, that’s crazy!!
@Heartonmysleeve-gj1kp
5 ай бұрын
The Anna, Vronsky, Karenin dynamic is the obvious concern in this adaptation. Who cares about Levin in this particular universe, except maybe Carolyn?😜@@ChristinaMBasler
@jamesduggan7200
5 ай бұрын
Currently, Kafka is politically dangerous, as he sees in government the potential for abuse regardless of party affiliation. For example, in The Metamorphosis one can look at the giant bug as a person who acquires a good government job inevitably losing himself in the bureaucracy necessary to keep it. The p.o.v. of those nearby recognize he's turned into a giant cockroach but the story only begins when he, himself, comes to realize what he has become. How did I get here? How did this happen to me? Why? et cetera. So, political activists see in the works of Franz Kafka the potential for criticism from those expected to obey.
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