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| Why spoiler all the classics? @SpinstersLibrary | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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Why spoiler all the classics? @SpinstersLibrary
![Can we draw these book covers? (No.) [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lGl6q_y-blQ/hqdefault.jpg "Can we draw these book covers? (No.) [CC]
In which Guest Spinster Robyn and I try to draw book covers based solely on the other describing them. It goes about as well as youre imagining right now.
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![Jane Austens Mansfield Park: Fan vs Hater [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lQkyB2UtK9E/hqdefault.jpg "Jane Austens Mansfield Park: Fan vs Hater [CC]
A fan and a hater of Jane Austens Mansfield Park debate the flaws and merits of arguably her most controversial novel. Featuring Cathie Grimm from The Grimm Reader. Mind the spoilers!
Cathies channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrimmreader3649
🐈📚My webshop for fans of classic literature and cats: https://shop.spinsterslibrary.com
📺Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spinsterslibrary
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My second channel Claudias Haus: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUgt_ad44BYiQhLZRzYZsFw
www.spinsterslibrary.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/spinsterslib
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46554514-claudia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spinsterslibrary/
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![Jane Austen July TBR | 2023 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m0wIcs5kZjs/hqdefault.jpg "Jane Austen July TBR | 2023 [CC]
My TBR for Jane Austen July 2023. Open for book titles and links.
🐈📚My webshop for fans of classic literature and cats: https://shop.spinsterslibrary.com
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen: Juvenilia
John Sutherland and Deirdre Le Faye: So You Think You Know Jane Austen?
Georgette Heyer: Lady of Quality
Catherine Sinclair: Modern Accomplishments
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
LINKS:
The Jane Austen July Cohosts:
@BlatantlyBookish
@katiejlumsden
Katies announcement video with the links to where you can read Jane Austens juvenilia for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ZCPSRPKxE
My Jane Austen ranking videos:
https://youtu.be/k9VWtL-oIoA
https://youtu.be/6SxRpvgasho
https://youtu.be/AHxvPIN4D7U
https://youtu.be/oL0xTaOqlSA
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![Behold! My new bookshelves! [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mKZ_Erwj_Z8/hqdefault.jpg "Behold! My new bookshelves! [CC]
Finally after years of dithering I got over myself and bought some bookshelves. Here they are.
🐈📚My webshop for fans of classic literature and cats: https://shop.spinsterslibrary.com
📺Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spinsterslibrary
FIND ME ONLINE
My second channel Claudias Haus: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUgt_ad44BYiQhLZRzYZsFw
www.spinsterslibrary.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/spinsterslib
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46554514-claudia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spinsterslibrary/
EQUIPMENT I USE
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Canon M50 with Kit Lense
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UK: https://amzn.to/2X3vDul *
Microphone:
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Tripod:
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![Silas Marner by George Eliot | Book Review [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mSz-Uc8D8sg/hqdefault.jpg "Silas Marner by George Eliot | Book Review [CC]
My review of George Eliots novel Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.
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More #Victober content:
2020 Victober playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1SPZJREHYE6HWTSSdVVO5rb7KwkHKiCa
2019 Victober playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1SPZJREHYE4dbJo8KVx6R_k1zPnI3ixr
2018 Victober playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1SPZJREHYE6DoU6xhQtRUJj2gAEWnBtW
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spinsterslibrary
📚❤😺 HEY, DO YOU LIKE CATS AND CLASSIC LITERATURE? Good. I made some cats and classic literature inspired stuff, which you can check out here:
https://shop.spinsterslibrary.com 😺❤📚
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![When The Machine Stops: Isolation and the Death of Social Media [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nWq5UOYQSPk/hqdefault.jpg "When The Machine Stops: Isolation and the Death of Social Media [CC]
A video essay on how E.M. Forster predicted Twitter, YouTube, and the inevitable decay of social media over a hundred years ago, and what we can learn from his dystopian short story The Machine Stops.
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SOURCES
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster:
https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
Some Interviews with E. M. Forster, 1957-58, 1965:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/441863
The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms by Ross Barkan:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/28/new-romanticism-technology-backlash
Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46554514-claudia
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![Tier-Ranking Jane Austens Romances [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oL0xTaOqlSA/hqdefault.jpg "Tier-Ranking Jane Austens Romances [CC]
Joining the tier ranking trend a year late to give you my unsolicited opinion on the romances and couples of Jane Austens novels. Because we all know Elinor Dashwood deserved better.
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MORE JANE AUSTEN CONTENT:
Watch Jane Austen: Taskmistress, you will not regret it: https://youtu.be/EN38Oom0nlU
Jane Austen July 2021: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1SPZJREHYE5bw7kY6yKcxFGRPsOx6r0I
Jane Austen July 2020: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1SPZJREHYE6IQtl8mcZ3ByHn2D1Ew65x
Jane Austen July 2019: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1SPZJREHYE4XpQWalJoq1iciG5KiNwL2
FIND ME ONLINE
My second channel Claudias Haus: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUgt_ad44BYiQhLZRzYZsFw
www.spinsterslibrary.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/spinsterslib
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46554514-claudia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spinsterslibrary/
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![On Identity, Memoir, and Starting a Booktube Channel Aged 70 | A Chat with Marilyn Maya Mendoza [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oYcbI4Bdr6g/hqdefault.jpg "On Identity, Memoir, and Starting a Booktube Channel Aged 70 | A Chat with Marilyn Maya Mendoza [CC]
My conversation with author, poet, and booktuber Marilyn Maya Mendoza from The Baby Boomer Booktuber. We chat about booktube, reading and writing memoir, her life as a reader, her Jewish and Puerto Rican identities, and many other things. Check out her channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZiDCe0n2FnHtoLdUUQgDA
🐈📚My webshop for fans of classic literature and cats: https://shop.spinsterslibrary.com
📺Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spinsterslibrary
FIND ME ONLINE
My second channel Claudias Haus: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUgt_ad44BYiQhLZRzYZsFw
www.spinsterslibrary.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/spinsterslib
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46554514-claudia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spinsterslibrary/
EQUIPMENT I USE
Camera:
Canon M50 with Kit Lense
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UK: https://amzn.to/2X3vDul *
Microphone:
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Tripod:
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![New author: where do you start? [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oqBpOU0Fc3w/hqdefault.jpg "New author: where do you start? [CC]
When trying out new authors, should you start with the most popular book? Should you always start with the best work or work your way up? Clearly there is no definitive answer to this literary dilemma, but here is my take on it.
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THE WHERE TO START WITH... PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1SPZJREHYE4KMCYwENjDYrXkjzPeRuvq
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www.spinsterslibrary.com
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46554514-claudia
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EQUIPMENT I USE
Camera:
Canon M50 with Kit Lense
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UK: https://amzn.to/2X3vDul *
Microphone:
Rode VideoMicro
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