Hannahs Books | The Victorian Literature Journey Tag #Victober #TagTuesday @HannahsBooks | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 minute ago.
In which I celebrate Tag Tuesday by answering the prompts of the Victorian Literature Journey Tag!
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Tag creators:
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Tilly @tillysshelf
(Ros and Tilly modeled their questions on the excellent prompts created for Shaketember by Kelly @booksimnotreading, Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse, and Nicole @adayofsmallthings.)
Also mentioned: the booktuber who introduced me to so many new authors—Katie @katiejlumsden
I tag:
David @davidnovakreadspoetry
Heather @heathergregg9975
Steve @saintdonoghue
and regular commenters without channels!
Questions:
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.
Books and Adaptations Discussed:
Peter Rabbit and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre (2006) with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens
Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) with Tara Fitzgerald, Toby Stephens, and Rupert Graves
Antigone by Sophocles
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Authors Mentioned Very Briefly:
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Gissing
Geraldine Jewsbury
Harriet Martineau
Margaret Oliphant
Dinah Craik
Amy Levy
Amy Dillwyn
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In which I celebrate Tag Tuesday by answering the prompts of the Victorian Literature Journey Tag!
Support this channel:
PATREON: patreon.com/hannahsbooks
KOFI tip jar: ko-fi.com/hannahsbooks
Tag creators:
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Tilly @tillysshelf
(Ros and Tilly modeled their questions on the excellent prompts created for Shaketember by Kelly @booksimnotreading, Jason @OldBluesChapterandVerse, and Nicole @adayofsmallthings.)
Also mentioned: the booktuber who introduced me to so many new authors—Katie @katiejlumsden
I tag:
David @davidnovakreadspoetry
Heather @heathergregg9975
Steve @saintdonoghue
and regular commenters without channels!
Questions:
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.
Books and Adaptations Discussed:
Peter Rabbit and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre (2006) with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens
Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) with Tara Fitzgerald, Toby Stephens, and Rupert Graves
Antigone by Sophocles
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Authors Mentioned Very Briefly:
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Gissing
Geraldine Jewsbury
Harriet Martineau
Margaret Oliphant
Dinah Craik
Amy Levy
Amy Dillwyn
FIND ME ELSEWHERE:
Voxer: hannahsbooks
Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hannahsbooks1
Goodreads: goodreads.com/hannahsbooks1 (currently inactive)
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In which I celebrate Tag Tuesday, Faulkner in August, and the memory of Ronald McDonald.
Tag created by Alan at Big Hard Books and Classics
https://youtu.be/1UXDGLV4zZk
My essay:
“As I Lay Trying: Learning to Read Faulkner in the Age of Black Lives Matter”
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/features/as-i-lay-trying
Booktube discussion of the book Unspeakable:
https://youtu.be/EKTP-eigg9s
Booktubers mentioned:
Brian @Bookish
@Shawn the Book Maniac
Books mentioned:
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
This Will All Be Over Soon by Cecily Strong
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Unspeakable by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner
The Prompts:
3) Yoknapatawpha county: What county do you live in and what does its name mean?
1) Benjy in The Sound and the Fury is the ultimate unreliable narrator. Name another/your favorite unreliable narrator.
4) As I Lay Dying: Tell us about a book that draws upon Death or Bereavement.
2) The Sound and the Fury: Jason IV is the ultimate unlikable character. Name another/your favorite villain.
6) Light in August: Name a book that made you furious or describes that intensity.
4a) Absalom was a son of David who rebelled again his father. Name a rebellious character from the bible.
5) What is your favorite Faulkner novel and why?
7) Extra credit: What was Faulkners nannys name and why is this significant?
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In which I talk about bookish periodicals; mysteries, mammoths, and moderns; and the joys of buddy reading.
Booktubers mentioned:
@saintdonoghue
@katehowereads
Margaret Pinard https://www.youtube.com/c/MargaretPinard
Amy @Amysdustybookshelf
Sarah @HardcoverHearts
Ros at Scallydandling about the Books https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE-lxdtxTUTWEs0xJn-dH0g
Kim at Middle of the Book March https://www.youtube.com/c/MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Allen @bighardbooks770
The New York Times Book Review, including By the Book with Ibram X. Kendi
#MarchMysteryMadness
Still Life by Louise Penny
#MarchingMammoths2021
Red Comet by Heather Clark
Phillip Roth by Blake Bailey
#MarchoftheModerns
Viral Modernism by Elizabeth Outka
and related works
Buddy Reads:
The Novel by Michael Schmidt
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com")
![Reads and Rambles, 15 April 2021 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A2FeDG30VjE/hqdefault.jpg "Reads and Rambles, 15 April 2021 [CC]
In which I weigh in on objectivity vs subjectivity in book reviews, wonder how privilege intersects with reading cozy books, and celebrate everything from matzoh and vaccine side effects to mysteries, cherry blossoms, and publication proofs.
I start with some personal updates.
Bookish conversation starts at 4:59
Objectivity vs. subjectivity starts at 11:02
Don’t miss the conversation led by Brian @BookishTexan, who also links to all the other participants before him.
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Email: booksandyarn1@gmail.com")
![Brattle Book Haul with Steve Donoghue! [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AELDxuoLzWU/hqdefault.jpg "Brattle Book Haul with Steve Donoghue! [CC]
In which I show you all the books that filled my bags after a wonderful morning at the Brattle Book Shop with @saintdonoghue
My essay about the new biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: https://www.ronslate.com/on-two-way-mirror-the-life-of-elizabeth-barrett-browning-by-fiona-sampson/
Books:
Bibliotopia, compiled by Steven Gilbar
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by AS Byatt
Virginia Wolf by by Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann
The Letters of May Sarton, edited by Susan Sherman
Look Homeward (a biography of Thomas Wolfe) by David Herbert Donald
The Afterlife by Penelope Fitzgerald
Too Soon to Tell by Calvin Trillin
Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark
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