2024 TBR | Classic Lit

[@yeyinttun875]

Our burmese modern novels started from burmese version of the count of monte cristo in 1901. Cannery Row is one of my favourite books. For Dante's Divine Comedy, I read Robin Kirkpatrick's translation. Last month, I read only Hemingway's A Movable Feast. But in this month, I can't read any books because of my country's situation. Any time I can be in the front line or can be dead. It's the most fearful situation than any other books. It's happening in real life. If I'm still alive, I'll read all of Hemingway's books.

[@mckenziekate]

Sending prayers your way 💜 please stay safe

[@Kiki-oo3bw]

LOVE your taste in books

[@joyceredman2136]

A lot of classic books are available in audio on KZbin if you feel you're getting stuck with the longer novels. Helps me sometimes.

[@mckenziekate]

Yes! Thank you for this reminder! I did listen to a few Jane Austen and Charles dickens novels this way and you are correct, it is very helpful!

[@fiddleleaffiction]

I’m behind on the reading for Monte Cristo but I’m also reading it for Game of Tomes! I love it so much 😍 we have very similar taste in books!! I read The Sun Also Rises last year - liked A Farewell to Arms much more 😅 and Infinite Jest is my summer goal, I tried to conquer it last year and didn’t succeed. I could keep rambling on and on but I’ll stop here 😂 cheers!

[@mckenziekate]

Good luck with Infinite Jest! And I still haven’t started Monte Cristo (lol) but I HAD to read the new SJM first haha, a farewell to arms is one of my favorites 🌷 I hope you’re having a great day!

[@maryellenhaworth]

Very cool!

[@novelideea]

I have Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute, The Aeneid, and Kristen Lavransdatter still hanging out on my TBR from last year. 😅

[@mckenziekate]

Good luck! I believe in you! Haha

[@mckenziekate]

Good luck! I believe in you! Haha

[@Faye_L]

You have great reading times ahead! I need to read The Road this year, too. Definitely intended to read it last year, oops!

[@mckenziekate]

Haha it will be the year of “The Road” for both of us then!

[@thJune-ze7dn]

Don Quixote is soooooooo good. I would deffo watch a reading vlog or a review of it if you decide to upload one.

[@Shellyish]

I didn’t read like a whole bunch of book a that I intended to read. Most notably: The Histories.

[@mckenziekate]

lol we do our best haha

[@suissesse5460]

Omg I am such a medieval fan, and I am excited for your foray into The Canterbury Tales. The first time I read it, I paired the physical book with the audiobook and did one tale at a time. On a similar note, I've been meaning to read The Decameron for awhile, which I understand is a similar sort of collection of medieval tales except Italian. 🥰

[@mckenziekate]

Someone else just recommended I read the Canterbury tales one tale at a time so this is indeed what I will do haha I am SO intimidated by it for some reason haha I started the Decameron last year actually and I believe I most likely ended up putting it down bc I was just trying to plow through it . So yes, a story at a time seems best

[@moiseyzavlanov3497]

As a reader of predominantly Classic lit, this video was made for me. I can't wait to explore more of the Bronte's works this year as I read both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and loved both (especially Wuthering Heights). Also feel like this is the year of spiritual enlightenment so I totally foresee myself reading a lot of works with philosophical and spiritual undertones (Kafka, Dostoevsky, etc.). Happy reading, Mckenzie :) Hope 2024 has been treating you well thus far!

[@mckenziekate]

Omg hello!! I LOVED Wuthering Heights and have been itching to reread it recently, it’s such a haunting book! I love that you can feel yourself headed into a spiritual enlightenment haha honestly I need/want a year of that as well. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on “crime and punishment” (please do let me know what u think once you read it) the brothers Karamazov is on my shelves as well so if u read that first then I would love a review of that too! I think Tolstoy’s “A Confession” is also a really beautiful (albeit depressing) nonfiction work that would be very much appropriate for a “year of enlightenment” (if it at all sounds interesting to you I would definitely recommend) Thank you for your kind comment and I hope that this year is treating you beautifully as well 💜

[@moiseyzavlanov3497]

@@mckenziekateWuthering Heights is perfect for a gloomy / dark day! I read it in November and the time of year definitely aided in my enjoyment of it. I "read" Crime and Punishment for a Russian lit class I took haha, but plan on reading it for the first time truly this year. I think you'd enjoy Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky, it's quite short but is very rich in symbolism and apparently all philosophy majors are required to read it so !!! that's exciting (from Dostoevsky I also suggest reading White Nights. It wasn't anything profound in my opinion but it was, nevertheless, such a cute and sentimental story (short, too) and having watched a few of your videos, I think you'd enjoy it!) I'm personally itching to read Villette by Charlotte Bronte. George Eliot described it as her best work and I've heard that it's more mature and impactful than Jane Eyre (Charlotte also wrote it after all her siblings unfortunately passed so I can imagine the book being steeped in grief and melancholy, which is honestly right up my alley). Thank you for the Tolstoy recommendation and your kind words!

[@mckenziekate]

@@moiseyzavlanov3497 I have white nights on my shelves! And I will have to reread notes from underground as I read it about five ish years ago and I fear it just didn’t resonate with me then. Hopefully it might work for me more so now. And Villette is also on my shelves! Haha I buy books WAY faster than I can read them

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

I’m taking some time to prioritize other aspects in my life this year, but I’m hoping to read way more than I did last year because I read like 5-6 books last year and yeesh. That said I’m watching a lot of movies, I’m challenging myself to watch 1 movie for each year from between 1910 and 2024 (so 134 movies) and I’m 29 deep so I definitely think it’s doable. That said I want to read a ton of books this year, I read the novella Benito Cereno for my 19th century American Gothic lit class and I’m listening to an Audiobook of Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott which I’m halfway through. I’m also hoping to read A Raisin in The Sun this weekend (since it’s a 3 day weekend).

[@mckenziekate]

Holy cow 🐄!!! Your movie project sounds AMAZING ! Is this for fun or for a class or job?? I would LOVE for you to share any gems that you may find or if u have any movies u think that everyone should see!! Good luck to you omg soooo cool!!

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

@@mckenziekate of course! I’m just doing it as a passion project, I’ve always been interested in films but I’ve never actually taken the time to watch movies in the way I wish I had so this is more so a New Years resolution thing. My favorite movies so far have been (in the order I watched them)… -Irma Vep (1996) -The Red Shoes (1948) -Donkey Skin (1970) -When Harry Met Sally (1989) -Foxy Brown (1974) -Dangerous Liaisons (1988) -The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) -Imitation of Life (1934) -I am Cuba (1964) -Battleship Potemkin (1925) -Ghost in the Shell 2 (2004) -The Tale of The Fox (1937) -Black Narcissus (1947)

[@mckenziekate]

@@cassiopeiathew7406 okay I am one thousand percent going to be watching some of these haha this is so fun I love it!

[@scoutdarpy4465]

Some great books! The Count of Monte Cristo wasn't a favorite of mine; it was too roguish for me, lol. Crime and Punishment is however a favorite of mine; and if you ever wanna discuss it, I'd be totally up for that. But keep in mind I can get very invested with the whole existentialist shtick and at times get carried away, lol; that's just according to my temperament. But, still, it's all in decency and authenticity. I think you will like The Divine Comedy. This is a good version because it has some pretty good footnotes. It is a tough poem, but I think you will get along just fine. I don't get half the references myself, lol. I enjoyed the video, especially about being about classics!!! You don't get too many of those by what I've seen on booktube.

[@kimdaltrey2315]

Hi Mckenzie, The Count of Monte Cristo is absolutely wonderful and doesn't read as though it's about 1200 pages long. If you would take advice regarding The Canterbury Tales - I would just read one of the tales at a time and leave some time between each one. What is also fun is reading the original language alongside the translated. I did this for my 'A' levels back in the day. I studied The Miller's Tale and we were sent away to try and translate the text ourselves first over some weeks before we then all studied it together in class. Didn't have access to a translation per se at the time, just our teacher explaining it all to us. Great fun. But I must stress that I feel if you just read the whole lot in one go you may just dilute the experience. And do have a look at the original text at the same time - it is wild. Well...... that was a bit of a diatribe. Enjoy your TBR. Kim

[@mckenziekate]

Thank you so so much for your advice regarding the Canterbury tales, honestly I am super intimidated so it is incredibly helpful to hear people’s opinions!

[@dheerajbadiger]

Cute

[@TheMassacreOfTheBanuQurayzahQu]

Yeah, she is.