A Possible TBR for December 2024

[@brenboothjones]

Sorry for your loss, Steve. I don’t comment often but just want to say that I appreciate all you do. Wouldn’t have started a channel if it wasn’t for you! Ready to be up to my eyeballs in Steve videos about the renaissance. Wishing you a *Hale* December! Bring on 2025!

[@RyanLisbon]

The Dickening! Love to see how your reading mind works, Steve. We will sit from the cheap seats riveted as usual.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thank you for making my 2025 reading plans seem reasonable.

[@saintdonoghue]

You're an inspiration for reading lunatics everywhere!

[@GedDonohoe]

I'm sorry for your recent loss.

[@saintdonoghue]

No idea what you're talking about here.

[@gerarddonohoe5806]

@@saintdonoghueyou mentioned you losing a bookish friend? I don’t know you or your friend, but that does not stop me passing on my sympathy. Or who knows maybe it does.

[@saintdonoghue]

@ ah, I see - sorry, my mistake. The loss was a little while ago, so I didn’t make the connection-

[@GedDonohoe]

@@saintdonoghue I should have been more clear in my original comment, my mistake I thought it was a recent loss, but my sentiment remains the same.

[@saintdonoghue]

@@GedDonohoe The sentiment is much appreciated, as always!

[@audreyh7892]

Nice seeing you!

[@christinebarone7496]

Hi Steve, I am currently attempting to read The Eagles series by Simon Scarrow, on book 3 right now. Also have Phillip Kerr series following the expoilts of Bernie Gunther in Nazi Germany in the 1930's. Both of those will keep me going til Feb at least.

[@garethreeves6090]

I recently finished a thesis on my boy Gissing, whom I admire despite his flaws (cough, Veranilda, cough), but I was floored by your comment that there is more talent in New Grub Street than in anything that Dickens wrote. Wow!! (I won't quibble re. honesty, though.)

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

I'm sorry to hear about your friend, but it will be a joy to read his library of Renaissance works. I do the same, thst is, havd projects. Recent ones were reading all the extant Greek plays, reading Shakespeare in chronilogical order, and the diaries of Virginia Woolf. I havent finally decided on my reads for next year except for Homer and Virginia Woolf novel project with ancillary material. I 'm reading David Copperfield again.

[@the_emerald_sea]

Elaine Feinstein -- I love her translations of Marina Tsvetaeva, she is inseparable from the poetess in my mind. My project is to read everything I already own BEFORE I acquire any more books . . . a doomed project I suspect!

[@LouiseReader]

I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. He's leaving you with quite the projects to be getting on with. I hope he can give you the gift of love for Dickens.

[@michaelwright6702]

I hope you update us on the Dickening. Dickens is a favorite of mine. It'd be nice to hear your takes as you reread each novel.

[@PamelaWagner-xy7fm]

I love Anne McCaffrey!

[@Alan-wd7wv]

I have something similar planned to your Russian read for next year. I will be reading all the major Tuvaluvian works.

[@zsazsavoom]

Whoah, even for you these sound like enormous projects. So of course, I wanna add a couple suggestions. The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy and Tsvetaeva's "My Pushkin". And if you going to include Tsvetaeva's own work, then Feinstein's bio "Captive Lion" and Karlinsky's rather definitive "Marina Tsvetaeva". and how about and then and don't forget and you really must.... Best of Luck!

[@LeeKempter]

Hi Steve, I would love to join you when you do the Italian Renaissance, I also want very much to do a huge read about Venerable Bede. Unfortunately I have not found very much written about him. I also would like to join you with Dickens, however I have not read all of his famous books. So when you do your reading 'about' Dickens I will try and get through his books. So sorry to hear about your loss, what an absolutely fabulous remembrance from him. A beautiful gift.

[@Unpotted]

Seems you have a cozy December ahead of you. The Russian literature project sounds like a challenge to Brock @TheActiveMind. Fantastic! It would be fascinating to watch livestreams of youth vs maturity as you discuss those works. I haven’t read very many of them, so I would learn a lot. 😺✌️

[@TheActiveMind1]

I’m in

[@saintdonoghue]

You would be, you DudeBolshevik!

[@TheActiveMind1]

@@saintdonoghueyou know…David Foster Wallace has an essay on Frank’s biography. It’s the perfect dude bro crossover

[@saintdonoghue]

@@TheActiveMind1 Your precious David Foster Wallace gave me syphilis on three non-consecutive occasions, bub!

[@Unpotted]

@@saintdonoghue 😂😹😂

[@eiketske]

I have a biography of Anna Akhmatova written by Roberta Reeder. I have had since 1997, but have yet to read it 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@deselby6669]

Im gearing up to revisit Vlogmas 2019 Steve.....halcyon days..

[@ThatReadingGuy28]

2025 should be, in a perfect world, my study of Roman literature in English, if only I could get the blasted Greeks out of the way first!

[@jarred.shane10]

I found it interesting in Orwell’s letters he dismissed Dickens’ critique on poverty as broadly toothless. Dickens’ attack on unjust Institutions ended with moral outrage. Dickens ultimately never expressed advocacy or change, nevertheless, I still enjoy the stories.

[@carolinasiqueira752]

My plan for 2025 is to work on my Catalan (which sucks). I have Kafka's Metamorphoses and Ovid's Heroides in Catalan.

[@Brahmsian]

Operation Barbarossa is a go!

[@PhilipBaltimore-xi7du]

Hey Steve! Not sure about the best place to leave comments, but I was wondering why it's so hard to find a good copy of lyly's anatomy of wit? Isn't that something that penguin should have?

[@crypsid]

Exciting projects! But why would your normal reading be loosening up in 2025?

[@saintdonoghue]

No, I meant my reading will be loosening up in December -

[@Sandwichism]

Why would reading the full version of the Dostoevsky biography make you the ultimate “dude bro”?

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Great Expectations was on my syllabus for O’level English literature exam. That’s 45 yrs ago. I liked the book but I didn’t love it.

[@seangraham9868]

OMG did you say that you are reading ALL OF DICKENS I’m squealing. Selfishly hoping some commentary on that makes it into videos!

[@monaedoyle3631]

Hello Steve. I had to study Charles Dickens in high school and I wasn’t a fan of his writing and I’m still not. I have a stack of Christmas books that I want to get to in the month of December.