Hi Kate tbr jar looks a lot of fun might try it! What's your favorite 5 star read of 2024 and where are u from :)

Oh Bleak House is real cool, it is a good one to reread through the years, as you gradually age ... My nephew gave me " the complete cosmicomics" by Calvino, so I've read some of the stories from that, his is an inventive, complex mind. Reminded me of Borges, a little, but Borges more mathematical...Have loved your videos, keep up the good work, Merry Christmas dear Caitlin! .......AL

How engaging, your take on these books! I will certainly watch you more as the time goes by. Do you know, I thought after reading " the diary of a madman "( I have this edition in hardback) anyway, I thought, this must be where Steve Martin got his stuff" ! Get a copy of his "cruel shoes" and you'll see how he could have been really affected, and developed his form of humor from Gogol, the master... well, take good care of yourself, and thanks for such a great review, AL

Привет! Прекрасные планы на январь. Из них я читала Фауста и повести Пушкина. Пушкина вообще очень люблю, надеюсь, что тебе тоже он понравится!

I am so glad your December TBR video enabled me to discover your channel. My first read of the year was Susanna Clarke's The Wood at Midwinter and I am currently reading Wuthering Heights. Other books on my January TBR are Eugene Onegin, Beautiful World Where Are You, Lady Macbeth, Martyr! and Say Nothing. I am also currently working my way through Anna Akhmatova's poetry and Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.

I loved Brave New World!! I think you’ll like it as well, it’s very thought provoking but also very entertaining. I also have a very sci-fy filled month for a tbr in January as well! Except The Picture of Dorian Gray, all of my books are sci-fy 🤭

My first year on book tube. Nice to make your acquaintance this year Caitlin! Here's to a great year of reading in 2025! Best wishes.

I just watched the series of The count of monte cristo with Sam Claflin and it was SOO GOOD, I did wish I would have read the book before but I might do it in like ten years when I have forgotten the plot😂

I was also hoping to start A Castle in the Clouds on Christmas Eve/Christmas but my package from my Nana is delayed and now won’t be here until after the New Year. I still plan to dive right into it though to start off 2025 on a sweet and fun note with Sophie, before I dive into The Idiot by Dostoyevsky. It seems we very much have similar reading tastes and I’m so thankful to have come across your channel. 💜 you’re lovely and emanate such sincerity.

Очень приятно смотреть ваши видео! ❤ (Извините, что пишу не на английском). К своему стыду, не читала «Подросток» Достоевского, но зимой хочу перечитать «Преступление и наказание», читала его около 10 лет назад и на тот момент показалось, что Достоевский не мой писатель. Но ваши видео вдохновляют на прочтение всех его книг! Beartown Бакмана надеюсь прочитать в ближайшее время. Слышу только положительные отзывы на его трилогию.

❤hi i'm from Colombia and i like Your videos and Your voice...❤

I really loved Starter Villain by John Scalzi, sci-fi book that was hilarious. It’s short too. Other sci-fi books would definitely be Project Hail Mary, Red Rising, and Dark Matter to just get your foot in the door!

I adore the Count Of Monte Cristo! I read it in 2023 and plan to read it again in 2025.

I think with 100 years you'll have to understand that gabriel knows that these behaviours aren't normal, he know's about how gross it is that two brothers chose to have sex with the same old woman and everything else that happens in the story. because it's more about the theme of solitude and of war and what it does to generations and families I absolutley adore 100 years, I think it's a brilliant tale and a book you can't really understand and digest the first time you uread it and you'll have to read analysis of it to see things you haven't realized. it's truly a masterpiece

Hi Caitlin! First time here🙂 I love how you improvise with the little space you have in your living arrangements. Actually kind of creative ☑ The way you just casually dismissed Ada Limon's "Bright Dead Things" is so funny, considering that she's the current U.S. Poet Laureate. I can tell you have a preference for the classics. Ovid, Shakespeare.☺

Scifi favorites: - Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers (russian authors never fail) is my absolute favorite. This story describes the aftermath of humanity's first contact with aliens, who have visited earth in an apparent trivial pitstop, leaving behind mysterious "zones" which humanity as you can imagine is keen to dissect, however sinister the consequences are. It is deeply philosophical and fascinating, and inspired the famous movie Stalker by Tarkovsky as well as the video game STALKER. - The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series by Douglas Adams is another favorite. It balances sci fi with comedy and philosophy and is truly a page turner. When reading it I was often reminded of Gogol's writing and humor honorable mention -- "Space Prison" by Tom Godwin. This story follows several generations of people in their fight to survive the dangerous environment of a planet which an alien race left them to die at. To me this is closer to a true sci-fi than the other two I mentioned, in that it could easily be the plot of a star trek episode. Very entertaining

100 years was a big disappointment for me too :/

SF recommendations: Dune - Frank Herbert Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr. 1984 - George Orwell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley I think all print editions of Solaris in English are a retranslation of the French translation so it's not the best. I highly recommend watching Tarkovsky's film adaptation of the novel which adds a religious element on top of Lem's hard science fiction. I've watched it like 15 times and always discover new layers.

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this video is so fun! thank you so much💖 aesthetics are on point :,)

I love this!! 💕

This is a stunning collection in terms of literary quality and aesthetics. I've never heard of Pushkin Press. I'm definitely going to check out their editions!

Yaaay, you're back!! ❤

I really enjoyed If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. Enjoy! I read Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens this year. I love his writing.

I've been saving A Castle in the Clouds to read this month too but I'm not sure if I'll actually be in the mood to pick it up haha. So I'd love to see your thoughts on it! I'm taking it easy on the classics this month with the holidays. I'm only planning to read Little Women after just finishing Lolita. I have a few fantasy picked out too and I might throw in a romance, My December Darling, if the mood strikes! I wish you luck on your reads this month - I'll be interested to hear your thoughts!

I spy with my little eye the Vintage UK version of War and Peace! I read the Anthony Briggs' translation last year of War and Peace. I also concurrently had the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation for cross-checking a specific sentence. I recommend the Briggs' translation wholeheartedly, also because he translated the French into English as well, making for an easier reading experience -- unless, of course, you already speak French!

Best wishes with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories.

Dostoevsky is My Fav Author, i hope you enjoy reading the Adolescent. Great Video!!!

Given how much Russian lit you read, do you have any preferred translators?

Hello how do you manage to read so much?

Notes From Underground is my favorite Dostoevsky so far, I’d love to read White Nights soon. Keep up the good work, great vid❤

Great list. War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov are better than those you read this year. Enjoy them!

Hey, I’m a new subscriber, love your taste in books and watching some of your older content. My brain is always fried during the week and was nervous for you during this challenge. So many times I was like, dude, you’re just going to have to call in! lol.

just stumbled across your channel and I love it! You're soooo sweet and loved the book recs! Can't wait for the next video :)

Have you read “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” by Anne Brontë ? It’s also a good classic romance book

It’s so nice to see a recent video with a booktuber who is reading the classics I am in a classic literature mood myself so I was happy to come across your video .

Hi Caitlin, the algorithm sent me this way. Loved your video, that's a lot of Russian literature for one year - fantastic. As an aside I also love your top/jumper I agree C&P is fabulous. I've not got round to Gogol so perhaps I will this year with your recommendation. Dostoevsky is the boss. I also love Turgenev and Tolstoy Subscribed

Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read. Isaiah 34:16

Yay, loving your videos Caitlin! I'll be reading The Kite Runner along with you. I've been contemplating on my next Dostoevsky, but I might be getting into Anna Karenina first since I've been putting that off for so long from my Russian lit tbr. :')

note: cossacks are cossacks. its was a culture. not an ethnicity. they were organised military focused societies called hosts. most of them existed in russian empire and most of their descendants, in or out of remnant and revived hosts, live in russian federation, only one of many cossak hosts were based in what is/was post 1991 ukraine territory.

I love this!! I'm just starting this for this week and I'm in the same boat - work full time too, but so excited to see how much I can read!

OMG The Count of Monte Cristo has to be one of my top three most favorite books I've ever read! And I found it really really fast-paced, too! I actually did a little research and found out that it's because Dumas had to publish it in parts, so every chapter finished off on a cliffhanger to keep the readers excited for the next part!! On another note, I'm studying classics, so maybe I should definitely read Ovid... 😂🙈

TCOMC is a fav of mine too. I agree with your “complaint” but I feel it wouldn’t be the same if he had more dialogue or face time. It adds to the mysteriousness and makes you really pay attention whenever he speaks. Such a great character. As a big Gogol fan also, i need to check out taras bulba!

If you are mesmerized by time you could go to "a" source of Sartre's itellectual inspiratioins--Martain Heidegger--for a vocabulary and a thinking that could enable you to better articulate some of your thoughts about time. Sartre, though a philosopher, is most powerful and beautiful as a literarian. I recall an undergraduate philosophy professor saying, as he held "Being and Time" in one hand, and "Being and Nothingness" in the other--my mind is with Heidegger, but my heart is with Sartre.

I love you :)

I'm glad to hear you're enjoying The Count of Monte Cristo! It's on my tbr for this year, but it's a journey. I would love to see a bookshelf tour in the future sometime, I love all of your recommendations!

Count of Monte Cristo, ... what can I say about this book ... you made the best decision of picking it up !

Best wishes with your reading choices. I hope you get some great stories. I'm currently reading the Count of Monte Cristo. I might be some time!

Brilliant, I was beginning to feel as though no one in the KZbin book reviewing community had heard of this amazing book,as it is my favourite book. I was introduced to it by a very good friend who was a 2nd year Philosophy major at Otago University in Dunedin New Zealand. I have lost count how many times I’ve read it. My current copy has been annotated on just about every page,with marginalia on specific scenes, or connections to Postmodern theory,existentialist themes/alienation,absurdity,superficiality and responsibility for one’s own actions. Every time I read it again, from the get go I slip into Roquentins shoes and start questioning my own existence as he works through his experiences throughout the book he’s such a good writer;as good a writer as he is a Philosopher. I did a Visual Arts degree, and I find his experiences in the book so real because I can see them. I pasted a coloured copy of Salvador Dalis painting,”The persistence of memory”/ the one with the melting clocks,with an accompanying note on the first page,alluding to pg.36…” But time is too large it refuses itself to be filled up everything you plunge into it goes soft and slack”. and pg.63you might as well try to catch time by the tail. I could go on discussing the book with you for the whole book. So Thankyou for your annotation of NAUSEA you really made my day❤ Paul down under in Adelaide South Australia

I also like David Copperfield for a mix of what love and relationships can look like. Hardy is good for romance and drama too.