The 17 Books I Read in January
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0:00 Intro
1:03 an honourable mention... book 0.5
1:49 Wuthering Heights
5:36 Five Survive by Holly Jackson
9:26 A Kind of Spark
11:58 King of Shadows
14:05 The Collectors by Philip Pullman
15:00 Spare by Prince Harry
17:59 The Monstrous Child
19:06 Gen Z Explained
20:00 Family Curse Field Notebooks
20:54 A Place Called Perfect
22:16 Bewick's British Birds
23:25 The Pilgrim's Progress
24:05 The Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
24:30 King Lear by Shakespeare
25:13 Poetry of Alexander Pope
25:58 The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
27:15 The Queen's Gambit
29:06 Outro
Friendly pronunciation tip - the z in Karamazov is the z in zoo, not a ’ts’ sound 😊 Great video as always! Also, Alexander Pope is a Neoclassicist, not a Romantic. Neoclassicists were ”nostalgic” for classical Greek and Roman art and culture, Romantics liked the Middle Ages more.
Equally, Daphne du MauriAY, not du MauriAIR. And from a previous video, Truman CapoTEE, not Truman CapOAT. 🙂
I love the colour of your sweater. It's beauty-full! I read Wuthering Heights earlier this year too for the first time and I found myself really enjoying Nelly - as I read, She became the protagonist for me - I felt that she had such strong special bonds with a lot of the characters in the story; She always felt like this bundle of warmth and strength.
As an anthropologist (someone who studies human culture for a living), I agree with your assessment that the royal family is indeed integral to British culture.
Thank you so much for talking so brilliantly about autism in this video, I’m so glad that you’ve educated yourself on the subject! I’m autistic, and it just made me so happy to see you talking about it in such an informed way :)
I'm autistic too, and was diagnosed in my mid-30's (fairly common for women).
Me too. It's great to see that someone I so admire is so well-informed and on my side, listening to actually autistic voices :)
i was going to say the same!
It's always such a joy to watch you talk about books. The passion you show in describing these books is truly admirable. One or two books added to my TBR from this video - thank you!
The Bothers Karamazov is one of this “giant books” that people are afraid to tackle. Definitely on my lifetime TBR. I’ve already tackled Moby Dick and am working on War and Peace. I find for really big books like these, I’m perfectly happy to do an audio book over actually reading them. Then I don’t get hung up on pronunciations.
And yes, more book related content is always good!
I got the audiobook for The Brothers Karamazov for that reason (there’s a version narrated by Luke Thompson, aka Benedict Bridgerton!). Reading huge books like that feels less daunting in audio format somehow!
I'll be diving into The Brothers Karamazov in May, joining in with Emma and Carolyn's Game of Tomes classics bookclub.
The Brothers Karamazov is my favorite book 💕 I'm excited for your February review ❤️
I enjoy your book content, you're very eloquent and thought out when describing literature (you also looked very pretty in this video
Omg thank you! Exactly! Wuthering Heights was not my cup of tea but whoever I encountered adored it. I'm so happy that finally sb has the same feeling I do towards this book.
And also I would love to see more monthly wrap ups in your channel😍
I love these book review videos. You give the BEST insights! Thank you for doing them. 😊
i miss these videos so much. Thanks Ruby for always inspiring me.
Great job, Ruby! You just answered my question! It was a very nice chat about the books. Cheers!
Always love your vlogs about books. Thank you Ruby!
I loved this video, Ruby! I hope to see more monthly book reviews from you in the future.
Thank you for your comments on the boons. It gives us the motivation to pick some of them.
Love your video about book reviews. Please keep doing this. Thank you!
When I tell you I dropped everything to watch this video. Thank you, Ruby, for the book recommendations. 🌻
My god you and your videos are SO comforting
I loved this video, it was so calming! It would be great if you did this monthly. Hope you have a lovely week :)
I love your book recommendations! Please keep them coming.
I have always struggled with the habit of reading books, but u made it an easy habit and new i'm obsessed with books so thnks, I wish u the best always
Yes, please, make another one in February 😄 I did enjoy it a lot.
Love your videos Ruby!!
I loved this video so much! Please continue to do these videos :)
Loved hearing your thoughts on Wuthering Heights, it’s my favourite book! Hopefully one day i’ll visit the moors😊
Because of your videos my hole life has changed. I started to read like 20 books in one month and A+ student from C's. Thank you Ruby💗💗💗
You are so inspiring Ruby!!🤗💕
I just added more to my TBR pile, thanks for the recommendatios.
I loved this video, you also looked so pretty in it! I have a recommendation for you if you haven’t already read it but The Woman in the Window by A.J Finn is a favorite of mine!
Awesome Ruby! Just a small pronunciation correction as a Russian speaker - the z in Brothers Karamazov is pronounced like the z in zoo, zebra, etc. :) Nice video as always!
You look exceptionally pretty in this video, Ruby! 💙
I don't usually watch wrap ups but I love watching your wrap ups.
I really love listening to you talking about books, please make more contend like this!!!
I really enjoy how you talk about books!
I just read Five Survive because of this video. Oliver was the worst, honestly, but because he was so hateful, I am actually impressed at the writing of his character. And just how he loses his mind over the night, the progression into how bad he gets, is actually quite believable given the situation. Honestly, for a book like this, I think the characters were more fleshed out than usual, or at least the ones she focused on. The fact you say Oliver is possibly your least favourite character of all time is a massive compliment in that regard.
Edit This isn't my usual genre but I'm recovering from surgery and in the mood for this kind of thing. I'll probably read Good Girl's Guide to Murder next.
I could not agree with you more about wuthering heights! I feel its such a hyped up book and it was so nice for someone to recognise the good in the book, like I do but also see the flaws and see the book as it is. :)
i watched the cottage fairy as you recommended me, its really soothing! Thank you very much for recommending me that.
Me to ! Its lovely x
Hi Ruby my kids have been sick for a week sadly and I couldn’t even turn a single page this week though, thanks for inspiring me as always😊
Karamazov is pronounced as it's spelt, with the hard 'z' ☺️
Bore…
...d of hearing pretentious pronunciations? Same.
No it’s not, it’s pronounced with a soft z sound. I don’t know why Ruby pronounces it so oddly 😅
Absolutely right
Yaaaaaay a Ruby video😍
Finally someone has my same opinion about Wuthering heights 😂 it wasn't my favourite book but it's still good, and honestly i didn't like any character except for Edger 🌚 but i didn't read any other Brontë book so you made me excited to read Jane Eire
I like to watch the videos you share about your life. Although my English is not very good, I still finished it.🙂
Yes please. More content like this one. Have a great weekend
Hello :)
I rarely comment videos but I really like the way you talk about books. In your precedent videos on "the books I read" I have to say that even though I love to read, it wasn't easy for me to focus on what you were saying because there was so many elements and you sometimes speak really fast... 🙈 But something was somehow different in this one and it was like every book was coming alive, you take more time to explain the story ... Great video 😃 And so many good suggestions 😊
Hi ruby,I like this video very much where you post book reviews in each month rather than giving all book reviews at the end of the year. Please recommend some feel good books like the wonder
We're still waiting for the updated bookshelf tour!! 💞
I had recently read “Queen’s Gambit” as well but in my opinion the book and the series differ very much. For example Chloe does not exist in the book, Beth didn’t lose the game with Borgow in Paris because of being drunk. I know that while seeing the bigger picture the series and the book are quite similar, but the difference I just described hit me so much.
Yeah, anyway: I love love love your channel, you’re my absolutely favourite CZcamsr and thank you for what you are doing here ❤
Much love from Poland!
Another wonderful video.
If you haven't already, you should give South Riding by Winifred Holtby a go. It felt very ahead of its time in some ways, and I think you would enjoy it.
Thanks for recommending books!
You look so pretty!!💗
You are so inspiring to me, a 32 year old mom! I have questions… we’re you homeschooled? Are your parents well read and it inspired you? If not, what made you read so much- even at a young age!?
As a former homeschooler who loves reading and comes from a family of big readers, I like that you have this association 😂
@@xiaosha1558 I homeschool my children and this is my hope for them!
Ruby, have you read any books from the Hogarth Shakespeare series? Modern authors do a sort of "cover version" if you will of Shakespeare's plays. Edward St Auburn covered King Lear with Dunbar; Jeanette Winterson took on The Winters Tale with The Gap of Time; Margaret Atwood did The Tempest with Hag-Seed; Tracy Chevalier tackled Othello with New Boy, and there are others.
sounds like you would love the game Wingspan, our favorite game. We would love that bird book! That's all I could think of was the game
Love the jumper suits u❤
Ruby, thank you for including the books for middle schoolers which you've read for work. I taught History and Literature to middle school students for thirty-five years, and it was always a challenge to stay up to speed on new books for that often fickle age group. They can be surprisingly conservative and wary about trying new things. I'm sure that your recommendations will be helpful to teachers who are still active in the field. I think I'd like to give "King of Shadows" a try, and "A Kind of Spark" sounds as if it might give some insight into young autistic girls; a group who, I know from experience, are often neglected.
I wonder if you've run across either of Janina Ramirez's books about a young sleuth in the Early Middle Ages: "Riddle of the Runes," and "The Way of the Waves?" Until recently Ramirez was a professor of Medieval Art at Oxford, focusing on the roles and achievements of women. Her latest book is "Femina," and she does a lot of presenting on the BBC. I loved both of her children's stories, but found them to be a hard sell with my twelve year old seventh graders. I'd be curious to know what you think, especially since you're working with that age group, now. All the best.
Thank you so much for the Family Curse Field Notebooks recommendation! I bought it yesterday and read it in one sitting, it was so refreshing and well written.
The Brothers Karamazov are amazing, one of my all time favourites. BTW if anyone's looking for a book rec, try Boris Vian's work!
Two more Russian classics for your reading list: Anna Karenina, translated by Constance Garnett; and Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, again translated by Constance Garnett. If you haven't read these already, you will absolutely love them.
Those are some interesting choices. I really need to start reading some actual books again, instead of just biology-papers. I still have not finished "The Circle"... it has been months by now.
As an unrelated question: *_Will you be playing Hogwarts Legacy?_* I do not know how much you are into that particular universe these days but after my first day of playing the game it seems to be a decent addition to it. Although it is weird for me personally to hear everything in english now, as I read the books in german all those years ago.
I finished „The Brothers Karamazov“ recently and it has become one of my favourite books of all time! I’m curious to see what you can take away from it! I’m religious (catholic) and thus may have had another view on it than someone who’s not religious 🤗
I already commented this on your last video where you mentioned the book, but Karamazov is pronounced with a softer z (z as in Zoo). Also Dostoevsky is definitely not pronounced like that 😅 I get that russian names are hard to pronounce for non Russian speakers, but I think people should still put in effort to at least try to pronounce them correctly (same goes for names from any language). And in the case of Dostoevsky there are plenty of resources online where one can listen to the names being pronounced correctly.
My mother tongue is German, but I speak Englisch, a bit of French and now I’m currently also learning Spanish (technically I also know Latin since I’ve had it in school for six years, but that doesn’t count 😂), so I know the struggle of learning new pronunciations that are different from what you’re used to in your mother tongue, but I still try, especially with names.
Hi Ruby I love your videos, could you tell us what ages you would recommend for the books, and could do you make a video of where you buy the books especially the old ones. It’s just some suggestions no pressure. Love your videos
please do a bookshelf tour!!!!!!!! ( btw this is the same person who did it on your last vid!)
Ruby you look stunning in this video!
I think you would enjoy reading The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. It is such a wonderful tale of a young girl studying the world she lives in as she learns from her naturalist grandfather. I recommend it to every young reader out there - perhaps your students would like it as well!
Pls make a video where you read a whole series at once , a readathone , famous five by Enid Blyton ...?
all books are the best ruby ❤🥰
Hi Ruby, have you ever read a book from Sarah Waters? I would really like to hear your thoughts on her work 😊❤️✨
I like your Coraline doll on your bookshelf. 😊
A random question, Ruby, but if you were to become an artist, what kinds of art would YOU create?
Girl you are ✨glowing✨ today
Reading Five Survive locked inside a van sounds like the perfect reading experience!! And yes I hated Oliver 😅
Ruby, have you heard of the Irish author Niall Williams? He is an excellent writer, his writing style is extremely poetic and tender yet strong. I’m clearly biased since he is my favourite writer, but I think you would enjoy his books a lot. I would suggest starting with “History of the Rain” :)
I LOVE History of Rain! It’s one of my absolute favourite books!
As a side note, in this video you totally look like you could be the younger sister of the Canadian woman who does the Adventures and Naps channel! That's a compliment btw. 🙂
I like monthly reviews because you can give more description of the books because of time. The yearly reviews were not as detailed.
I wish I could read as fast as some of you book enthusiasts. How the heck did you have enough time to read 17! 😮
To much time on her hands
Oh my God, Ruby, I read King of Shadows while I was at school and it was really influencial (it helped me write a history essay in an exam and I actually felt like I was cheating because I had this advantage of reading a book in that setting) and I think about it a lot, but I had no memory of what it was called or the author or anything!! This was a good 15 years ago, and now thanks to you I've found it!
Ruby!!! Thank you so, so much for educating yourself on autism!!! I'm autistic and it is soooo rare that people talk about autism (without stereotyping that is), let alone autism in girls/women in these kinds of videos! It means so much to me.
I also have something to add: When you talked about the portrayal of love in Wuthering Heights and how it shows how everyone is capable of feeling love and being loved it would've been great to also add that not everyone is capable of feeling romantic love or wanting romantic relationships.
🏳️🌈 Aro Pride 🏳️🌈
Very very good point there about aro/ace - when I say “love” though, I don’t mean romantic or sexual love. Instead, I mean basic human love and connection, and everyone’s ability to be appreciated 💛
@@RubyGranger8 Thanks so much for clarifying! I thought I point that out because so many people automatically assume that there's a romantic (and/or sexual) meaning or connotation behind the word "love" and don't view allo/amatonormativity critically. But there are sooo many types of love and attraction! Btw, I find the split attraction model really interesting to research :)
I love your glasses!!
How many hours did you spend reading them?
Hi ruby, sorry for the late comment
Since you read King Lear and other Shakespeare books, I would really like your opinion on The Merchant Of Venice?
Love the book review, some of these are added to my tbh list. 😊
Ruby, where did you get your glasses? I've admired them.for a while and would live some like that xx oh, also, you are so right about dante’s inferno-its beautiful and haunting at the same time .
Bloobloom
Awesome video
your chatty book videoos are the best
17 book ! Good job
You look so pretty in those glasses...
Proud of the one book I managed to read!
Thank you so much for filming this video! I read “five survive” pretty much at the same time as you and omg, Oliver was the most annoying person and I hated him so much 🙈
Oh and I would love to see one for February too 💕
I love your videos
I read Wuthering Heights for the first time a few years ago and I absolutely hated it. I feel like it's a book you either love or hate. I haven't read any other Bronte books, but I do plan on it.
Where did you buy that pendent from ???
Hi, Ruby! Did you read Sylvia Plath?
Have you read Crime and Punishment by fyodor dostoevky?
Wuthering Heights is my absolute 100% favourite book ever. I must have read it 100s of times 😂😂. I've read it numerous times a year since I was like 15 I'm 37 now 🤣 by numerous I mean like 20 times, at least, every year 😵💫
Yaah, love from india 🇮🇳
You are amazing feel like treasure the books what you read it and your home is so vintage really cute love it🥹❤️❤️❤️
Great video, Ruby. 👏
I’m reading Wuthering heights now and I don’t think I’ve read it since high school. I don’t remember what I thought of it then but I am enjoying it now. I do find that Cathy (gen 1) and Heathcliff are completely unbearable and melodramatic. I can’t understand why people always quote the “whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same” line as a romantic quote, unless they haven’t read the book. 😂 They definitely deserve each other. I think Heathcliff may be worse than Cathy tho. Who takes a heartbreak so hard that he has to take it out on everyone for decades? Lol. Im looking forward to being done with the book just to get away from these terrible people 😂
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Big fan
I love that you refer to fictional characters as real people. "He was one of the worst people I ever met."
I referred to a character like that once and was taken to task, being told, "You never met anyone. It was in a book!"
And his sister saying to me, "Guess who never reads?"
Thanks for the videos. I read 'Catcher in the Rye' at fourteen and thought Holden Caulfield was the coolest. I read it again at fifty-five when I was working in a secondary school, and he reminded me of the very worst year eleven pupils.
It's not "Karamatsov"
It's "Karamazov"
Not that hard to pronounce
I think she has a tendency to overly exoticise non-english names (not that uncommon) and end up pronouncing them according to what she thinks they should sound like rather than what was plainly spelled. Noticed that when she was pronouncing Sun Tzu or some other European names in the past.
Okay now go to bed
I mean, correct her pronunciation if you want, but you don't have to be mean about it