Private Space in Self Control @tillysshelf

Tillys Shelf Two years ago I spent a very long time creating this review of Self-Control by Mary Brunton (1811), with reference to A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929). For those of you reading this as a Jane Austen contemporary novel, it may be interesting to hear that Austen read Self-Control before any of her own works were published, and characteristically wrote "my opinion is confirmed of its’ being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it" (Oct. 1813).
I discuss five functions that private space has for the heroine of Self Control, Laura Montreville:
- Artistic (a studio, enabling her to attempt to engage in profitable creative labour)
- Religious (a sanctuary for prayer)
- Emotional (a space in which to experience emotions that must be suppressed in public)
- Rational (a place in which to process important decisions)
- Protective (an escape for social engagements and more threatening events)

#JaneAustenJuly

updated 4 years ago

Private Space in Self Control

Tillys Shelf 2020-07-11 | Two years ago I spent a very long time creating this review of Self-Control by Mary Brunton (1811), with reference to A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929). For those of you reading this as a Jane Austen contemporary novel, it may be interesting to hear that Austen read Self-Control before any of her own works were published, and characteristically wrote "my opinion is confirmed of its’ being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it" (Oct. 1813).
I discuss five functions that private space has for the heroine of Self Control, Laura Montreville:
- Artistic (a studio, enabling her to attempt to engage in profitable creative labour)
- Religious (a sanctuary for prayer)
- Emotional (a space in which to experience emotions that must be suppressed in public)
- Rational (a place in which to process important decisions)
- Protective (an escape for social engagements and more threatening events)

#JaneAustenJuly

Review: There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak

Tillys Shelf 2024-10-07 | This month with Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 I read There Are Rivers In The Sky by Turkish author Elif Shafak, published 2024. Apologies for occasional distracting noises in the video.

Next month we're reading Night Bloom by Peace Adzo Medie

Framed: Three Gardening Books

Tillys Shelf 2024-09-06 | In this video I review three Gardening books, three new ones and an old favourite.
How to Grow Plants for Free by Simon Ackroyd (2023)
Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale (2023, YouTube channel Spicy Moustache)
Veg in One Bed by Huw Richards (2019, YouTube channel Huw Richards)

I'm tentatively linking this to Framed in September, a readathon of art-related books hosted by:
Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks
Hannah @HannahsBooks
Heather @heathergregg9975
Lindy @lindysmagpiereads
Greg @anotherbibliophilereads
#framedinseptember
With thanks to the hosts for coming up with the event.

Women in Translation: Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

Tillys Shelf 2024-08-31 | This year for Women in Translation Month I read Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, published in book form in 1952 and translated by Ann Goldstein in 2023.
I also mentioned My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrate, published 2012 also translated by Ann Goldstein.

Jane Austen July Wrap Up

Tillys Shelf 2024-08-12 | Jane Austen July was co-hosted by Katie @katiejlumsden Marissa @BlatantlyBookish and Claudia @SpinstersLibrary.

Books and adaptations mentioned (* read or watched, others referenced for context):
Emma by Jane Austen
* Emma 2009 miniseries with Romola Garai and Johnny Lee Miller
* Pride and Prejudice 1996 miniseries with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth
Jane Austen's Letters edited by Deirdre Le Faye
* The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet Witch by Melinda Taub
Longbourn by Jo Baker
Unequal Affections by Lara Ormiston
Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid
* The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst by Katie Lumsden (buddy read with Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711)
*The Woman of Colour: A Tale, Anonymous edited by Lyndon J Dominique (published 1808)
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Evelina by Frances Burney
* What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and why) by Susan Allen Ford
* Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pregnancy in Jane Austens Novels

Tillys Shelf 2024-07-31 | This #janeaustenjuly I have found myself searching for references to pregnancy and early motherhood throughout Jane Austen's novels and letters.

Books mentioned:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (chapters 26, 31, 36, 37, 43)
Emma by Jane Austen (chapters 6, 12, 17, 18)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (chapters 57, 60)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (chapter 1)
I didn't identify any ongoing pregnancies in Northanger Abbey, Persuasion or Lady Susan but do please correct me if I'm wrong!
Jane Austen's Letters edited by Dierdre le Faye (letters 1, 7, 10, 11, 13)

Reference for infant mortality: campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/georgianinfantmortality
Reference for maternal mortality: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633559 (I have seen several blogs stating that maternal mortality was as high as 20%, which it may well have been, but these were unreferenced. This article does mention higher maternal mortality figures for later in the 19th century).

Jane Austen July is a wonderful annual readathon hosted by Katie @katiejlumsden Marissa @BlatantlyBookish and Claudia @SpinstersLibrary.

Short Review: The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub

Tillys Shelf 2024-07-18 | For this #janeaustenjuly I was lucky enough to stumble upon this fantasy retelling of Pride and Prejudice. If you like mixing up your Regency balls with a soft magic system and a few ancient legends then this might be a good one to try.

30 Picture Books in 30 Minutes #picturethis2024

Tillys Shelf 2024-04-27 | Thanks to #picturethis and a good charity bookshop I ended up massively expanding my picture book collection this month.

The hosts are:
@Shellyish
@spreadbookjoy

The prompts are:
Joy
Night
Peach
Nature
Blue
Change

I also mentioned @ChattieTheMadChatter, The Bookish Type bookshop in Leeds and #peopleapril

The books:
Paddington by Michael Bond/RW Alley
Peepo by Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Nora's Wondrous Adventure by Courtney Jones
Ringtail by Karen Patkau
Mrs Armitage and the Big Wave by Quentin Blake
Matilda You're Amazing by PS Brooks
I Can Be A Brave Adventurer by Frances Lincoln
Meg and Mog: Meg's Cauldron by Helen Nicoll/Jan Pienkowski
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams/William Nicholson
The Three Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas/Helen Oxenbury
We're Going To Find A Monster by Malorie Blackman/Dapo Adeola
When The Dragons Came by Naomi Kefford/Lynne Moore/Benji Davies
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema/Beatriz Vidal (I said this was from a South African folktale but it is actually Kenyan - Aardema lived in South Africa for a while which was the cause of my confusion)
The Whales' Song by Dyan Sheldon/Gary Blythe
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear/Victoria Bell
ABC by Dr Seuss
Guess How Much I Love You in the Summer by Sam McBratney/Anita Jeram
Tigger Comes To The Forest by AA Milne/EH Shepard
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler
Old Bear by Jane Hissey
Otto Blotter Bird Spotter by Graham Carter
Camille and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt
What Did I Look Like When I Was a Baby? by Jeanne Willis/Tony Ross
Why Is The Sky Blue? by Geraldine Taylor/Amy Schimler
The Lighthouse Keeper's Cat by Ronda and David Armitage
(The Skull by Jon Klassen - mentioned but not held up)
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle
Julian Is A Mermaid by Jessica Love
The Woodcutter and the Snow Prince by Ian Eagleton/Davide Ortu

Sagalong 2024: The Saga of the Volsungs

Tillys Shelf 2024-04-20 | This year, join us to read the Saga of the Volsungs (Volsungasaga). My Penguin edition was translated by Jesse L. Byock.

Co-host this year are:
Mark @richardsonreads573
Vin @revenantreads
Mark @BookTimewithElvis
Steve @saintdonoghue
Shawn @ShawnDStandfast
Jack @ramblingraconteur1616

Potential crossover events include:
People April
Spring Into Adventure
Historathon

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Tillys Shelf 2024-03-30 | For our March buddy read, Ros from @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and I picked Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (2023), after reading a fascinating interview with her which you can find here:
theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/27/nonverbal-people-deserve-a-voice-angie-kim-on-why-she-wrote-a-novel-about-a-boy-with-severe-autism

Ros is contending with a broken arm, and I was battling nausea during the filming, but we were able to discuss what we loved about this compelling mystery.

London BookTuber Meet-Up: Did I Read It?

Tillys Shelf 2024-03-01 | Last summer a group of UK BookTubers met up in London, organised by Katy at Books and Things. I showed little to no restraint and went home with eight books - but did I ever finish them?

Short Review: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (2022)

Tillys Shelf 2024-02-18 | This is a short review of the Booker Prize winning novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. This journey into the afterlife during Sri Lanka's civil war was compelling and also darkly humorous. I compared it briefly to Penguin Lost by Andriy Kurkov.

Short Review: Yes Sister, No Sister by Jennifer Craig, 2002

Tillys Shelf 2024-02-13 | A short review of Yes Sister, No Sister by Jennifer Craig (2002, this edition 2010), a memoir of nurse training in 1950s Yorkshire. I briefly compared this to A Very Private Diary by Mary Morris.

Short review: Matrescence by Lucy Jones (2023)

Tillys Shelf 2024-02-10 | A short review of Lucy Jones' 2023 memoir of pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood. I listened to this as an audiobook narrated by Jones herself, and briefly compared it to Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn.

Short Review: Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn, 2023

Tillys Shelf 2024-02-06 | A review of Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn, my first non-fiction read of 2024. This tells the story of women's health and medicine from antiquity to the present day. I compared this briefly to The Five by Hallie Rubenhold.

The Victorian Literature Journey Tag

Tillys Shelf 2023-10-04 | A new tag for #victober with Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711- her version on her channel.

Victober hosts:
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Katie @katiejlumsden
Kate @katehowereads
Marissa @BlatantlyBookish
Petra @bookswithpetra

Questions adapted from the Shakespeare Journey Tag

1. What was your first experience reading Victorian literature and how was it?

2. Has the reading of a Victorian book ever brought you to tears? If so tell us more.

3. Are there any people who have played a significant role in your Victorian literature journey?

4. Do you have a favourite film or TV adaptation of a Victorian book? What about one you'd like to see made?

5. Which character in Victorian literature most resembles you, or you identify with most?

6. Do you have a favourite moment, scene or line from Victorian literature? Tell us about it or read it to us.

7. Does any Victorian literature intimidate you? If so, what and why.

8. What tips would you give to someone early on in their Victorian literature journey?

9. What is your top recommended read for other readers of Victorian literature?

10. Tag people.

My Shakespeare Journey Tag

Tillys Shelf 2023-09-20 | This tag was created for #shaketember by Jason of Old Blue's Chapter and Verse, Kelly of Books I'm Not Reading, and Nicole of A Day Of Small Things.

@OldBluesChapterandVerse
@booksimnotreading
@adayofsmallthings

I was tagged by Kelly and Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

For some reason, I can't copy the questions here on my phone, but I'll try to add them in future. For now, please find them on the hosts' videos.

My Victorian Literature TBR Pile

Tillys Shelf 2023-09-15 | For #victober I had a look at how many Victorian classics I own but haven't read. The answer is, too many.

Victober hosts:
@katehowereads
@katiejlumsden
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
@bookswithpetra
@BlatantlyBookish

Tentative plan:
Little Dorrit
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (group read)
A poem by an author I haven't read, ideally featuring a new woman
A Hardy
The Mill on the Floss

Tilly, Shawn and Ros chat about Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Tillys Shelf 2023-09-14 | Shawn @shawnbreathesbooks and Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 invited me for a readalong of Afterlives by 2021 Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah. Shawn did a stirling job of editing down our extensive discussion. This book has rich and complex themes of colonialism, coming of age, and conflict in twentieth century East Africa.

Review: Summer of Secrets (Northanger Abbey)

Tillys Shelf 2023-07-27 | For #janeaustenjuly I read Summer of Secrets (2007) by Rosie Rushton, a Northanger Abbey adaptation.

Review: The Doctor Will See You Now by Dr Amir Khan

Tillys Shelf 2023-07-23 | The Doctor Will See You Now by Dr Amir Khan is a medical memoir of work as an NHS GP covering the time up to the 2020 Covid vaccine rollout.
I compared it to The Secret GP by Dr Max Skittle and also mentioned This is Going to Hurt by Dr Adam Kaye.

Review: The Monk by Matthew Lewis

Tillys Shelf 2023-07-20 | For #janeaustenjuly I read The Monk by Matthew Lewis.

Ranking Mansfield Park Adaptations

Tillys Shelf 2023-07-15 | Another #janeaustenjuly ranking video - in this one, I rate films and series based on Mansfield Park (1814), possibly Austen's least-loved novel, and consider how it could be done better.

Adaptations mentioned:
Metropolitan (1990) film Whit Stillman, Audrey Rouget, Edward Clements
Mansfield Park (2007) TV film Iain Mcdonald, Billie Piper, Blake Ritson
Mansfield Park (1999) film Patricia Rozema, Frances O'Connor, Johnny Lee Miller
From Mansfield With Love (2014-15) Web series Foot In The Door Theatre, Harvey Trust over, Wesley Buckeridge
Mansfield Park (2011) opera Jonathan Dove, John Rawnsley, Nuala Willis
Mansfield Park (1983) BBC series David Giles, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Nicholas Farrell

Ranking Jane Austens Manipulative Mothers

Tillys Shelf 2023-07-10 | Together with Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and in honour of #janeaustenjuly, this is an attempt to tier-rank the manipulative mothers in Austen's completed works. Did they have a plan? Were they successful? And were they, in turn, manipulated?

Jane Austen July - Catch Up

Tillys Shelf 2023-07-07 | Here with Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 to discuss how #janeaustenjuly is going so far and our plans for a Northanger Abbey-themed weekend near Bath.

June Wrap Up: Mysteries and Histories

Tillys Shelf 2023-07-02 | I try my hand at a wrap up for June.

Books mentioned:
Borderland by Anna Reid
Black Earth by Jens Muhling
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Book Club by CJ Cooper
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden
A terrible beauty is born by WB Yeats (poems: Adam's Curse and He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)
You don't know what war is by Yeva Skalietska
The Valley of Fear and His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle (audiobook via audible narrated by Stephen Fry)

Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag

Tillys Shelf 2023-06-28 | Undertaking the Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag to get re-restarted, and tagging @TrinityTales @AJennWhoReads and @rowan-reads to help them to introduce themselves to the BookTube community.
I threw in a Jane Austen July TBR for good measure (my excuse for the unseemly length of the video).

Prompts:
1. Best book you’ve read so far
2. Best sequel you've read so far
3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to.
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year.
5. Biggest disappointment.
6. Biggest surprise.
7. Favourite new author. (Debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush.
9. Newest favourite character.
10. Book that made you cry (Saddest book you have read).
11. Book that made you happy.
12. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year.
13. Favourite review you've written this year. (Booktube version: Favorite video you have done so far in this year)
14. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received)
15. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?

I missed two questions! The answer to a book that made me happy would have been the Grishaverse series by Leigh Bardugo. I reread this series at a time when I was highly stressed, and it gave me a complete escape. The answer to a book that made me sad would have been Borderland by Anna Reid, the final chapters relating to events of 2014.

Books mentioned:
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold 01:17
Death and the Penguin and Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov 03:10
You Don't Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska 05:30
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 07:08
The Summer of Secrets by Rosie Rushton 07:25
British Dandies by Dominic Janes 07:40
The Monk by Matthew Lewis 08:25
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe 08:30
The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy 08:58
A terrible beauty is born by WB Yeats 09:29
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember collected by Ted Hughes 10:04
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden 11:34
The Valley of Fear and His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle (audiobook narrated by Stephen Fry) 12:23
The White Guard by Mikhael Bulgakov 14:53
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein (adapted by Peter Jackson and a fan) 17:04
Index, A history of the by Dennis Duncan 18:07
Home is Not a Place by Johnny Pitts and Roger Robinson 18:37
Alice in Wonderland (Аліса в Країні Дів) by Lewis Carrol translated by Валентин Корнієнко/Івана Марковича 19:21
Ukrainian Cuisine and Folk Traditions by Lidia Artiukh 20:15
Afterlives and Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah 21:37
The Doctor Will See You Now by Dr Amir Khan 22:05

Other Channels mentioned:
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 Amelia Reads @bouquinsbooks @seriela @katiejlumsden @shawnbreathesbooks

Events mentioned:
Jane Austen July #janeaustenjuly
Ilkley Literature Festival www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
Bradford Literature Festival www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk currently ongoing

Short Review: They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

Tillys Shelf 2023-02-19 | A non-murder themed romp through archeology and diplomacy, published 1951.

Short Review: The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy

Tillys Shelf 2023-02-12 | A short review of Thomas Hardy's romantic historical novel The Trumpet Major (1880) which covers the story of Anne Garland and her various sweethearts in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars.
Mild spoilers for a subplot.

Also mentioned:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1874)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1878)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)

Short Review: Index, A history of the by Duncan, Dennis

Tillys Shelf 2023-02-08 | Short review of this book about indexes in all their glory by Dennis Duncan (2022). Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and I saw him talk at the Ilkley Literature Festival 2022 (ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/). The Index itself was compiled by Paula Clarke Bain of the Society of Indexers (indexers.org.uk/).
Thanks for watching!

Stories from Ukraine 5/Discussing Drama: The Government Inspector

Tillys Shelf 2022-11-27 | A few weeks ago Ros from @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and I got together via zoom to discuss Gogol's 1835 play The Government Inspector. With themes of corruption and deceit, it remains topical and funny to this day.
Part of our #discussingdrama series which is mostly on Ros's channel.

Stories from Ukraine 4: The Gogol Problem

Tillys Shelf 2022-11-07 | In this video I talk about the Ukrainian-Russian author Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1842) and his stories Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831) and Dead Souls (1842).
Rerecord due to sound quality issues.
I also mention The Grain Store by Natalya Zorozhbit and Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko, both discussed in previous videos in this series.

Facial Stigma in Dickens Part 2 (Bleak House)

Tillys Shelf 2022-10-29 | *Part Two after the abrupt end if Part One*
If you want to avoid this self-indulgently lengthy video, what I am trying to say is that it is interesting to see Dickens assuming two roles in his work - one as a discriminator against characters with facial disfigurement, in particular as a reinforcer of the stigma of facial disfigurement being linked to moral deficiency, and the other as an "ally," criticising facial stigma in others.
An important theme which I neglected to mention was identity - Esther's face I many ways is a sign of her identity, a crucial link I the plot. Her illness obscures that identity from others, at the turning point when it finally becomes clear to herself.

In this video I explore how stigma around facial disfigurement appears in the work of Charles Dickens that I have read so far. Bleak House was my pick for Kate's challenge on disability and representation in Victorian Literature.

Books mentioned:
Face It by James Partridge (2020)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1837)
Great Expectations (1860)
Our Mutual Friend (1865)
Bleak House (1853)

Relevant charities for facial stigma:
Changing Faces - changingfaces.org.uk
The Katie Piper Foundation - katiepiperfoundation.org.uk
Dan's Fund for Burns - dansfundforburns.org

Part of #victober
#victober2022

Facial Stigma in Dickens Part 1

Tillys Shelf 2022-10-29 | *Part One - cuts off abruptly - Part Two to follow*

In this video I explore how stigma around facial disfigurement appears in the work of Charles Dickens that I have read so far. This was my pick for Kate's challenge on disability and representation in Victorian literature.

Books mentioned:
Face It by James Partridge (2020)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1837)
Great Expectations (1860)
Our Mutual Friend (1865)
Bleak House (1853)

Relevant charities for facial stigma:
Changing Faces - changingfaces.org.uk
The Katie Piper Foundation - katiepiperfoundation.org.uk
Dan's Fund for Burns - dansfundforburns.org

Part of #victober
#victober2022

Stories from Ukraine 3: Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

Tillys Shelf 2022-09-18 | A review of Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, written in 1996 and translated from the Russian by George Bird.
What I should have said is that as well as being dark, Death and the Penguin is also deeply and cynically funny.

A Surprising Subscriber Milestone

Tillys Shelf 2022-09-12 | Proof that if you hang around for long enough you might get there in the end - I have somehow accrued 1000 subscribers, for now. I won't be offended if you see this video crop up and decide that it's about time to unsubscribe!
My biggest achievement on BookTube has definitely been bringing Ros into the community. You can find her @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711.

Review: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef

Tillys Shelf 2022-08-06 | A short review of Nadia Wassef's 2021 memoir of starting a modern bookshop, Diwan, in central Cairo. Also called Shelf Life.
Also mentioned Egyptian musician Ramy Essam.

Stories from Ukraine 2: The Grain Store by Natalya Vorozhbit

Tillys Shelf 2022-08-02 | Finally, another #discussingdrama with Ros from @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 .
This month we're travelling to Ukraine to read The Grain Store by playwright and screenwriter Natal'ya Vorozhbit (Наталія Ворожбит). First performed in 2009 in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company, it deals with the period of the Holodomor or Great Famine in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. If was recommended to us by Foxed Folios along with Bad Roads, another play by the same author focused on the conflict since 2014. A film made in 2020 is apparently available on YouTube but I could only find the trailer youtu.be/nO7kky5Unew

Emma Woodhouse - Handsome, Clever, Vexed

Tillys Shelf 2022-07-27 | Finally joining in with Jane Austen July 2022 with a little exploration of Emma's emotional turmoil (or lack thereof) in Austen's 1815 novel, with reference to What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan (2012).

#janeaustenjuly
#janeausten

Stories from Ukraine 1: Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko

Tillys Shelf 2022-05-22 | A scallydandle to Ukraine to read a collection of short stories by Оксана Забужко, Your Ad Could Go Here. Various translators, this collection published 2020, some stories available separately.
Reading from An Album For Gustav.

Sagalong 2022 Part 3

Tillys Shelf 2022-04-23 | ...

Sagalong 2022: Egils Saga Part 2

Tillys Shelf 2022-04-18 | ...

Sagalong 2022: Egils Saga Part 1

Tillys Shelf 2022-04-10 | ...

#Sagalong 2022: Egils Saga

Tillys Shelf 2022-02-19 | Finally updating the description with the promised details!

We will be reading Egil's Saga. A free translation into English is available online here:
sagadb.org/egils_saga.en
This is Green's 1893 translation.

The dates of Sagalong 2022 (yes, it is in April) will be:
April 4th to 10th - Chapters 1-22
April 11th to 17th - Chapters 23-44
April 18th to 24th - Chapters 45-66
April 25th to May 5th - Chapters 67-87

Actual hosts will be posting videos on Saturdays or Sundays. As a renegade cheerleader, I reserve the right to post videos whenever it will be most inconvenient for myself (judging by my timing choices in recording this video).

Genuine host channels:
Elena Makridina youtube.com/watch?v=js-hGAEllkQ&ab_channel=ElenaMakridina
Richardson Reads youtube.com/watch?v=A1_5mycG7uU&ab_channel=RichardsonReads
Shawn D Standfast youtube.com/watch?v=z5_YxJVujds&t=0s&ab_channel=ShawnD.Standfast
Rambling Raconteur youtube.com/watch?v=HJnCV-2r6dg&ab_channel=RamblingRaconteur
Bookish North youtube.com/watch?v=9H5e96sdGTY&ab_channel=BookishNorth
A Cruel Reader's Thesis youtube.com/watch?v=NsWKXfiutX8&ab_channel=ACruelReader%27sThesis
Scott Danielson youtube.com/watch?v=_lix5nfoAaU&ab_channel=ScottDanielson
Motley Reads youtube.com/channel/UCRED77Ubv1vPMosDlRNIjDA (no announcement video)

Also cheerleading:
Steve Donoghue youtube.com/watch?v=aTPa8D37i10&ab_channel=SteveDonoghue

Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing by Tomson Highway

Tillys Shelf 2021-11-17 | #discussingdrama #indigethon

Tilly, Ros, & Shawn on the indigenous play Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing by Tomson Highway

No spoilers until 18:18!

Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing by Tomson Highway
goodreads.com/book/show/656330.Dry_Lips_Oughta_Move_To_Kapuskasing

Free ebook of this play on the Internet Archive website: archive.org/details/drylipsoughtamov00high

The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts by Tomson Highway
goodreads.com/book/show/45039.The_Rez_Sisters

Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway
goodreads.com/book/show/1148401.Kiss_of_the_Fur_Queen?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=lS7LIMrVgP&rank=1

Rambling Victober Wrap Up

Tillys Shelf 2021-11-04 | ...

Morality and Abuse in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Tillys Shelf 2021-10-25 | Another #Victober read

Victober is hosted by @katiejlumsden , @lucythereader and @katehowereads .

Books mentioned:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (1848) (Audible narrated by Alex Jennings and Jenny Agutter)
The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy (1888)
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (1847)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)
Evelina by Fanny Burney (1778)
Cecelia by Fanny Burney (1782) - I forgot Burney was pre-19th century here!
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
Self Control by Mary Brunton (1811 not 1814)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)

I mention the DASH form, available here:
safelives.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Dash%20without%20guidance.pdf

If you have concerns related to domestic abuse in the UK or some of the behaviours mentioned here you can access Refuge:
refuge.org.uk
Or call 0808 2000 247

A Victober-Themed Weekend Ramble

Tillys Shelf 2021-10-10 | Another joint video with Ros from Scallydandling About the Books - earlier on the same day we discussed Charley's Aunt and Victorian comedy on her channel: youtube.com/watch?v=xXsXVQ1p24o&t=3s&ab_channel=Scallydandlingaboutthebooks

Books mentioned (and we mentioned as many Victorian books as we could, it seems):
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
True Love by Sarah Farro
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning
Sonnets from the Portugese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Selected Poems by Robert Browning (Everyman)
Poems by the Bronte Sisters
Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas
The History of Mary Prince

Amy Levy and Professional Women in Victorian Literature

Tillys Shelf 2021-10-03 | Victober 2021

Books mentioned:

The Romance of a Shop and Xantipe by Amy Levy
Little Women
Pride and Pejudice by Jane Austen
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

BB76: An Unintentional Victember Wrap Up/ Victober TBR

Tillys Shelf 2021-09-29 | Victober is hosted by:
Katy at Books and Things
Kate Howe
Lucy the Reader

Books mentioned:
A Shropshire Lad by AE Housman (1896)
El Fastasma de Canterville/The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (1887) narrated by Aurora del Prado de la Iglesia
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1874)
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (1847)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860-61)
Best Poems by the Bronte Sisters
Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore (1869)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (1848)

BB75: The Wayfarer Series Review

Tillys Shelf 2021-09-09 | Review of The Wayfarer Series by Beckham Chambers

The long way to a small angry planet (2014)
A closed and common orbit (2016)
Record of a spaceborn few (2018)
The galaxy and the ground within

Also the standalone novella To Be Taught If Fortunate