VICTORIAN POETRY, EMILY BRONTË & A BOOK HAUL | Welcome to Book Club! 📚 | a reading vlog

Welcome to another book club! In which I celebrate Emily Brontë's birthday, talk about the poetry I've been reading lately, and share a book haul from a book shopping trip.

📚 BOOKS MENTIONED

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Selected Works: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Selected Works: Christina Rossetti
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
Last Seen Online by Lauren James
Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood

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Reading vlogs can be filled whatever you want! That’s what vlogs are about. To show a personal glimpse into your life and thoughts. When you speak with passion and genuine enjoyment, that’s when the video becomes the most enjoyable. So I’ll leave you in charge of figuring out what should be in the vlogs!

[Everleigh_James]

Lucy 🎉🎉🎉 so good to see you back. Exciting times ahead 🤍🤍📖

[MsTimmy]

Love love love this video! So wonderful to see you back - thank you for sharing this excellent video! ❤️📚✨

[patriciabuuck]

Lucy I'm so happy to see you back!!!

[Imreallyboredsick]

You posted again!! I love your videos, and I read your first book when it came out. I loved it.

[disakland]

I love your new direction and sharing your enthusiasm for books. I also have autism and got disgnosed late. Been watching for a long time, was drawn to your channel because of the focus on classics. I’m really getting back into classics these last couple of years and am so excited about reading classics.

Currently I’m reading Sense and Sensibility. Maybe I will be able to pick my favorite Austen this year. It’s that or P&P, but it’s hard to decide.

Planning on reading Jane Eyre again this October 😊 Also re-reading Far From the Madding Crowd before starting my reading in publication of Hardy 😁

Have a great reading August!

[WrenJamesWriter]

Thank you Lucy!!! 🥹 I really need to watch that old video we did, ahhhh

[eilidhreads]

I'm loving these videos and I look forward to the next video and your thoughts on your next reads when it comes

[agathayo]

My current favorite poems by E Bronte: The Night Is Darkening and Riches I Hold

[abookhug]

I adore Wilkie and want to read more of his novels, but I've heard this one isn't that great, maybe try The Moonstone or Armadale? I've also heard No Name is really good. I really like Coleridge, I guess he is most known for Kubla Khan and Rime of the ancient mariner but my personal favourite is Frost at midnight, it's very soothing, I recommed reading it aloud in a quiet voice on a quiet evening!!! 🤗

[GenWivern]

Nice to hear from you, Lucy, as ever. It feels like there's always a good reason not to tackle Tennyson (a weighty Victorian edition of the collected works lives on the bedside table, collecting dust), but I'm neither an enthusiastic nor a sophisticated consumer of 19th century poetry. Goblin Market is a nice exception, but everybody likes that one, surely. A E Housman is to my taste and he just about qualifies if you stick to A Shropshire Lad, so that's a tentative recommendation. Looking forward to more upcoming vlogs.

[donaldkelly]

Glad you're back!

As a viewer from across the Atlantic, have you tried Emily Dickinson or Elizabeth Bishop?

[Books-Are-Brilliant]

I've heard the name Ali Hazelwood, but haven't read any of her books. I may just try one! Any suggestions for romance reading, whether classic or contemporary, would be fab!

[maisie]

My favourite passage in a poem says: "At the edge of sweet sanity open / such wild, blind wings" (Mary Oliver, Rapture)

[kimtherrien]

I like romance, I will try Not in Love for sure. Have you read Abby Jimenez? She is also quite good, I would recommend Part of Your World to start.

[rebeccafarrington]

I love Christina Rossetti’s poetry if you are looking for more Victorian poets and Emily Dickinson’s poetry is great too!

[rachaelbird]

I am reading Not in Love at the moment.

[michaelgarcia]

Hi Lucy i read that Geoffrey Chaucer is the father of English Literature

[hayleyc]

Robert Frost and William Wordsworth for Great nature poetry.

[Dinadoesyoga]

I'm afraid The Haunted Hotel is not one of Wilkie Collins' best, but I hope you have a much better experience than I did.