@@beccafoster6527 Hi Becca. TBR is a quick way of referring to a stack of book you intend to read. It stands for “To Be Read”. Great question! I’m glad you asked. Each community on KZbin has kind of its own language don’t they?

@@amyofhearthridge poor Wickham

@@Bookslovejenna😅 sorry

@@cathrussell2426 Thank you! I really appreciate that. The Lucy Worsley bio is so good! If you enjoy that I’d recommend The Real Jane Austen:A Life In Small Things by Paula Byrne if you haven’t already read it. I hope you enjoy the Ill Mannered Ladies! It really is wonderful. Thanks for taking the time to comment. :)

⁠@@BookslovejennaJenna, I loved The Real Jane Austen! 😅♥️

@@amyofhearthridgeMe too! I wish more biographies were written that way.

@@tibbarasden Oh! Fun. Are we on opposing teams? 😂 I’m sorry for your loss four years ago. Dogs are such powerful little presences in our lives. I’m so grateful they exist. ❤️🐶

@@clarepotter7584 Wonderful! I just finished reading it and it’s definitely dense but has a lot of interesting information that I haven’t seen elsewhere. Hope you enjoy it. Thank you for watching.

@@readknitwithcheryl Wuthering Heights can be tough to get into because of the Yorkshire dialect Emily Bronte tried to incorporate into the dialogue. Certain characters feel like they are speaking a totally different language until you find your rhythm with it. If you want the story but with less dialect distraction try listening to the audio while reading along. Alternatively- and this is still how I get through it - I read it aloud to myself when I get to parts that lose me. The story is so compelling and Emily’s writing so beautiful I believe the difficulty is worth it but many a reader finds it difficult. Best to you! Oh! If you enjoyed that poem (and I really read it so fast just to get to parts I wanted so that you enjoyed it just demonstrates her power as a poet) you should give more of her poetry a try. She’s really at her best with poetry!

@@bethsbookishreviews9374 Wahoo! I love this! Please tell me how the reread goes.

@@Lisa-vb3gn Ah…but that is not at all what Charlotte wrote. That is a lens you are applying to the text. Largely any imagery associated with feeling bound or in service to is applied to Rochester despite the fact that for 1/3 or the book Jane is ACTUALLY in service as the governess. In addition, the imagery associated with Jane is that of independent freedom and the pursuit of happiness/joy/bliss. It’s made clear that she loves him and freely chooses to marry him. Marriage - at least to Jane - is an expression of her equality with Edward. Edward expresses that Jane is his deepest wish fulfilled. He treasures her. He puts her a pedestal (which she jumps off of real quick..she doesn’t want to be superior or worshipped. She wants to be loved and to love equally.) And that is what Charlotte wrote. That is the trajectory of their romance from the meet cute (horse bucking Edward off on the road as Jane appears out of nowhere) to the happy family at the end. To try and rewrite Jane as some kind enslaved and disempowered unwilling participant in this story takes some serious smoke, mirrors, and blinders. Here are some quotes that guide me through how I read the text. I’ve got a lot more if needed. They are arranged first with Jane’s perspective and then Edward’s. They cover all the chapters that chronical their relationship from meeting to the HAPPY conclusion. :) "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me." ~Jane Eyre to Edward Rochester "I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; -- it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, - as we are!” ~Jane Eyre to Edward Rochester “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.” ~Jane to readers "I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest-blest beyond what language can express." ~Jane to readers "All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever." ~ Jane to Edward "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you--especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.” ~Edward Rochester to Jane Eyre "Her coming was my hope each day,/ Her parting was my pain;/ The chance that did her steps delay/ Was ice in every vein." ~Edward Rochester sings this to Jane Eyre "I have for the first time found what I can truly love-I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment." ~Edward Rochester to Jane Eyre "I am not an angel … and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.” ~ Jane to Edward Rochester "I have little left in myself-I must have you. The world may laugh-may call me absurd, selfish-but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame." ~ Edward to Jane ​​“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.” ~Edward Rochester to Jane Eyre

@@Bookslovejenna Thats a great long answer. Best wishes.

@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk I’ll defend Jane Eyre with all my words until the end of time. 😂I was actually holding back here. So much more I could say.

@@HannahsBooks Thanks Hannah! I did start rereading Alice yesterday evening and it’s just as I remember it. I love that Tilly is Ros’s daughter. I will spend some time on her channel this week. I have a feeling I’m really going to enjoy her content.

@@eringolive Born in Riverside. Have family in Sac (used to be in Fairfield right by the mall). I’ve lived all over the state though from Redding to Yucca Valley/Joshua Tree. Every time you’re out and about in Sac I’m looking over your shoulder trying to spot my family. 😂

Hi! I think you meant this comment for someone else’s Jane Austen July TBR. Oops! :) No worries. I just want to make sure these kind and joyful thoughts end up with the right person. :)

@@Bookslovejenna I wonder how that happened? Thanks for letting me know.

@@bookingthroughlife No worries. Be well! :)

Thanks! I found it on ThredUP.

Same! Penguin classics feel better in my hands but I love the look of the Oxfords on my shelves.

That’s so fun! I love the Jane name theme! I reread Jane Eyre this past January and already want to reread it. 😂

😂 I speak my truth. 😂

Thanks Art! That’s good to know. I’ll have to pop onto your channel and watch that interview. I know I loved the one you did with Mimi Matthews awhile back. Such good conversation.

Yes! They are so wonderful. I’ll end up getting all of them that are available. I don’t think there’s one for Northanger. Dickens has my heart. I look forward to your Austen TBR.

Lisa - let’s keep the comments to ones that build up rather than break down. Thanks. You’ve already led in your comments with your loathing of Jane Eyre. Now you feel the need to correct my pronunciation? What exactly is the point of that? What do you hope to get out of this criticism? We play nice in the comments here and if that’s not in your wheelhouse you may find it more of a balm for your soul to not watch my videos. A little grace, compassion, and the ability to self-edit what one would like to say as opposed to what one actually says are greatly encouraged here. I seem nice…I AM nice…but I will not tolerate mean spiritedness to take root here.

@@Bookslovejenna You're correct about washing dirty laundry in private. Lisa is allowed to hate Jane Eyre if she chooses, and a correct pronunciation is important, as you would correct one of your girls misspelling that word as "mizzpell" (NOT to be confused with the famous Haitian curse-hurler), BUT Lisa ought to try to be more pleasant and measured, as you are. All your book recommendations sound interesting. Thanks.

@@kevinrussell-jp6om Thanks. I’ve just seen so much negativity in comment sections. I know this is very minimal but I refuse to let that kind of atmosphere find any purchase here - no matter how small.

@@Bookslovejenna I'm not finding fault and I get your viewpoint. It's your site and you should not have to put up with comments that piss you off. Because I am an old guy and not as sensitive as I should be, I easily find myself being argumentative just for the sake of stirring things up. But you have to understand that most times people don't want to read that, especially on mostly polite sites like this. When in Rome don't expect good pork fried rice, although you never know. If you can't say something pleasant, consider "zipping it", unless your middle name is Karen.

@@kevinrussell-jp6om not a fan of that term - Karen. It’s become just another one word insult for any woman that speaks her mind. It’s dismissive and reductive and like so much else in language doesn’t much mean what we think it means. Thanks for your thoughts and watching the video. Many watch - few comment. Lisa will be fine. I was just setting a boundary. I too am fine. No need for championing here. :) Best to you.

Hi Grace! I think Pride and Prejudice is the place to start with Austen. And when you’re done reading it watch the Colin Firth BBC drama of it. Iconic!

Bunnicula is a family favorite in my house. It makes such a great read a-loud. I think it was my dad that discovered it at the library and hooked me on the series. Did you read them all? Celery Stalks At Midnight and Howladay Inn are my next two favorites in the series. Around d the same time, my dad also found a book called Help, I’m a Prisoner In the Library about two sisters that accidentally get locked overnight in a small town library. It’s worth a read if you haven’t read it yet.

Thank you for mentioning me as well and your kind words!

Oooh! What did you order? 📚📚📚😂

@@Bookslovejenna haha!! I ordered the annotated Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. And then I ordered Godmersham Park! I really want to order the Nicola Yoon book that you showed-One of Our Kind, but I held back on that one. I am going to read Christina Lauren's The Paradise Problem in July. It is on my tbr as well!

I also ordered Godmersham Park, watching 2weeks after you posted your video. It was 71% off on Amazon. I also subscribed to your KZbin channel, you’re so peppy and enthusiastic about reading, love it!

@@lvndrroseAwesome! Love a good reduced price book. Welcome to the channel. So happy to have you here. 😊

Thank you! 😊

Thank you! 😊

Thank you!

Thanks for your perspective. Jane Eyre is my favorite book of all time so this may not be the channel you’re looking for. But you are welcome here if you can handle all my blatant Bronte love.

Books always disappear in the midst of a move. It’ll resurface. In the meantime- it does make a good listen. :)

@@Bookslovejenna I’m thinking about getting the audio after I finish the 49-hr Gone with the Wind.

I have not read When the Emperor was Divine. Adding to my list! Magic of Ordinary Days is one of my sister’s favorite books and movies. It’s so good! Have you read Farewell to Manazanar? There’s also some great graphic novels out there like Displacement and They Called Us Enemy.

😂 Take it in short stints. 😂

I have On the Beach but haven’t read it yet! I’ve loved everything I’ve read by him. Such a great storyteller.

Yeah - my TBRs are always just aspirational. During the lockdown times I really did read 30+ books a month. It kept me sane. And I still like to make a huge ol’ pile of possibilities but as we get further and further from those days, my actual number of books read is more like 10-15 😂 Which is still a lot for many and way less than others. I don’t push it. I read what I read and make sure I’m enjoying myself or feeling edified. Thanks for stopping by!

@Bookslovejenna I'm watching your March wrap up, but had to pause to get the granddaughters ready for bed. Going to finish it tonight. 🥰

Her name is Lola... :)