2024 bookshelf tour (classics, litfic, fantasy and more) ☃️🎄⭐️ BOOKMAS DAY 7

[@dougirvin2413]

Hi FEMKE, WOW! Great bookshelf review. Beautifully organized, especially your Wordsworths. Love your copy of Anna K.! I was just looking through mine a few days ago for a Levin quote about teaching serfs to read. Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is basically just a whole lot more of the same, for better or worse. Another great Gulag story is Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes, Epistolary January is just around the corner, this is a great true love story and letters. I just heard that right after Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote The Little Prince he died in a plane crash just like the one in the book! The Doctor's Wife is a very enjoyable little story and Isabel Gilbert is a wonderful bookish heroine. I'm not a Dostoyevsky completest…I doubt if even Fyodor read everything Dostoyevsky wrote 🤣 but I've read a bunch and Demons is my least favorite and his most difficult. If you're not already a big fan girl, I wouldn't start with that one. A long long time ago and in a galaxy far far away I was a minister and one of the favorite topics for sermons used to be ‘worship’. Chapter 7, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in that copy of The Wind in the Willows on your children's shelf is the best treatise I've ever read on the subject. Last week you said you’d never read Harry Potter and I recommended The Prisoner of Azkaban as the only one that seemed to have much real wisdom for the adult reader. Well I've never read L.M. Montgomery. So in the spirit of Septimus Warren Smith consulting famous authors (BookTubers) by letter (God bless Virginia Woolf!) which Anne book should an old black dude read after guarding convicts for 3 decades in maximum security prisons…or should I just skip Anne? BTW want to watch the most entertaining 1 minute and 22 seconds ever on YT, go check out the 2025 TBR from Col Mustard in the Library, so clever!

[@femsfables]

Thank you! I think everyone can find something to love about Anne, so I suggest you just start with the first book and see where it takes you :)

[@dougirvin2413]

Hi FEMKE, ok thanks, I'll put Anne of G G on my TBR. Hope you're feeling better today 😢.