You are one of the only people I’m subscribed to who reads mostly books I’ve never heard of… a) I love it and b) it is VERY dangerous for my bank account. Also love the connections you spot between books!
@kiranreader11 күн бұрын
variety is the spice of life ben!!! thanks for watching :)
@NerdyNurseReadsАй бұрын
Just catching up with my favorite booktuber
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
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@rorororosАй бұрын
Was literally just thinking yesterday that damn i miss kiran videosss 🤓🤓 but you do deserve the rest and all the happy times ❤️
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
thank you!! i really did miss booktube while i was away!! i'm happy to be back!! ty for missing me!!!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
@casskrug20 күн бұрын
how have i not heard of the princess of 72nd street?! caroline blackwood sounds great as well 🤩
@kiranreader11 күн бұрын
caroline blackwood is my new icon!!! she's fab!
@TomBrzezickiАй бұрын
I have to say how much I admired the Persephone Books edition of “Guard Your Daughters” by Diana Tutton that I ordered by mail. It’s a softcover edition, but with an elegant dove-gray cover with a simple white label design stating the author and title of the book. The cover design is duplicated on a heavy card dustjacket, and when you open the front cover, you’ll see a colourful antique design on the endpapers. The weak point in most softcover books is the glued binding, which will dry out and crack over the years, but this Persephone Books edition looks and feels like it can stand up to multiple readings. I also liked the font used and the layout of the pages, which added to the quality appeal of the book. My only slight reservation is the price you pay for quality, as my second-hand copy of “Guard Your Daughters” cost about the same as a brand-new copy of an equivalent size paperback, and there was mailing on top of that.
@MrChaboy15Ай бұрын
Wow! We have the same Bday! Love the video!
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
Love finding a bday twin!!!! hope you had a good bday!! ty!!
@-alittletoowildinthe70s-Ай бұрын
Yessss!!! I’m so hyped to watch this after school with a mug of tea and add books to my tbr
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
hope you enjoyed!!! ty for watching!! 🫶
@marshacasner1800Ай бұрын
Hi!! Found your channel through Ben!!! Glad I found you. Subscribed. 😊
@kiranreader11 күн бұрын
thank you so much marsha!! 😊😊
@christinehopkinsconnelly5726Ай бұрын
Hope you had a wonderful birthday! You always give me so many more books to add to my kust. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue is definitely going to the top now!
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
ty ty christine!! yes!! you need to read it asap!! im sure you will love it
@TomBrzezickiАй бұрын
In your “July Reads” video of this past summer, Kiran, you spent some time talking about a novel that piqued my interest. The book was “Guard Your Daughters” by Diana Tutton, published in 1953 and made available through Persephone Books. I was finally able to obtain a copy of the novel, so here are my comments on the text, many of which mirror your own from your July video. “Guard Your Daughters” is set in post-war Britain of the early 1950s. The first-person narrator is a young woman, Morgan Harvey, age nineteen, who lives with her family in the English countryside. Morgan’s home is a spacious but poorly heated English country residence with extensive gardens, a tennis court, and other amenities, all of which have seen better days. We soon meet the rest of the Harvey family, which includes Morgan’s sisters Cressida, Thisbe, and Teresa, ranging in age from eighteen to fifteen. There is also Pandora, age twenty-two, who is married and lives in London. There is a mother and a father on hand, but the parents’ Christian names, as far as I could tell, are never given. The novel’s opening chapters portray the Harveys as a family of classic English eccentrics. Mother is the delicate type who, on her good days, can dabble in watercolours and join the rest of the family for afternoon tea, but otherwise seems to require a lot of bed-rest and tip-toeing around. Father spends most of his time secluded in his study working on his popular detective novels, which seem to be of the Golden Age style, reliant upon the clockwork operation of machine-precision plots rather than the messed-up motivations of realistic human characters. The girls help out with the cooking and cleaning, and in their spare time pursue their interests in music, poetry, and other forms of self-expression. The English country home setting and the largely young female cast of characters bear an obvious resemblance to “Pride and Prejudice”, and indeed, Jane Austen is mentioned by name at one point, just as Mr. Darcy makes a brief appearance-or at least his disdainfully curling lower lip does-and Thisbe declares, “I’m like Lydia Bennet-I long for a ‘regiment of Militia’-whatever Militia is.” The four Harvey sisters still living at home seem happy enough, but the reader soon notices some troubling aspects about their situation. None of the girls goes to school or has anything in the way of a job. They have no friends or acquaintances their own age, and have only themselves for company. Their social isolation is reinforced by the fact that the Harveys have no telephone, nor do they seem to have a radio. It’s no wonder the girls respond like desert island castaways sighting a sail on the horizon when young Gregory Manning’s car breaks down in front of the Harvey home. Interestingly, Gregory says he’s on his way “To Town”, meaning London, the same as Jane Austen’s generation would have said. Tensions arise in the Harvey home when the oldest sister, Pandora, arrives from London. Married life has given Pandora a better perspective on the restricted way she and her sisters were raised, although to our present-day sensibilities her solution to the problem-“Oh, Morgan, I do want you all to get married too!”-carries complications of its own. Pandora advises Morgan that “you’ll have to rebel sooner or later”, and encourages her to come back to London with her. But Morgan refuses to disrupt the delicate equilibrium of family home by leaving it, explaining, “It would be-well, almost a murder.” The rest of “Guard Your Daughters” could be called a coming-of-age story, as Morgan, Cressida, Thisbe, and Teresa all come to terms with the fact that they cannot continue to live in the state of arrested development and social isolation in which their parents have maintained them within the confines of their country home. One of the things I enjoyed most about “Guard Your Daughters” was its evocation of English country life. There is the Harveys’ large country home and the local squire’s manor house, each with its extensive grounds and gardens. You get your fresh eggs and butter from the local farmer. The local town is within walking distance and can be reached by bus, taxi, or cross-country footpaths, where occasionally you may meet up with the local gentry on horseback. There is afternoon tea with scones and jam, and sometimes a glass of sherry. London and the rest of the world seem a long way away. I also liked the way Diana Tutton described the food rationing and other austerity measures imposed on the British populace in the early 1950s. Although the war has been over for almost a decade, the Harveys and their neighbours still display a commendable “We’re all in this together!” spirit. When a couple of the Harvey girls are invited to lunch at the local manor house, they are served nothing more fancy than canned soup and water. In another scene at the Harvey home, the girls are forced to improvise quickly to ensure there is enough food to go around when unexpected guests arrive for dinner. As the story progressed, I detected an inconsistency of tone in the novel, though this may be due to the changing standards and attitudes that have taken place within society during the seventy-odd years since “Guard Your Daughters” was published. For example, there is a prevailing note of light entertainment in Diana Tutton’s style of writing, which seems out place with some of the darker aspects of the story. Or perhaps we just have a greater awareness of the harmful effects of emotional manipulation and blackmail when it is practised by parents against their children than was understood in the author’s time. Despite their youth, the Harvey girls drink sherry at home and whatever’s available in the form of alcohol when out at parties. Sometimes they drink too much. They also smoke cigarettes and Morgan even has a gold cigarette case. I wondered whether these were typical habits for young women of Tutton’s time, or intended as a sign of the Harvey girls’ outré attitudes and conduct. Perhaps a bit of both. The traditional British interest in bottoms is also on display. In one scene, father sends his youngest daughter, 15-year-old Teresa, off to bed “with a loving smack”-on the bottom, we may presume--while in another scene, we are told that a young gentleman named James “smacked Thisbe’s bottom appreciatively”. Even the Harvey girls concur in their desire to see a rival young woman suitably punished by her boyfriend: “I hope he’ll cane her conceited little bottom for her!” Of course, this is all learned behaviour, for as Morgan says, “Father had brought us up to believe that women should be curved though lissom, and to thank goodness that we all have bosoms and buttocks.” Really, Dad? But there are two incidents that go beyond the pale, by any standard. There’s a scene where father is having his hair cut by his daughter, Thisbe. She’s not doing a good job, so he tells her, “Get away, Thisbe, you incapable little slut, and let Pandora have her whack. She can’t be any worse than you.” Morgan assures us that old Pater is only pretending to be angry, but these are not the words that a father should ever use against his daughter-or any woman-under any circumstances, and I can’t imagine many modern readers sharing Morgan’s humorous view of the situation. There is another early scene between Pandora and Morgan, in which the younger sister jokingly pretends that a neighbouring farmer might be tortured by the police for selling black market butter and eggs to them. Pandora tells Morgan not to joke about such things: “It’s real. It truly happens.” Morgan then makes the shocking reply, “Everyone jokes about Belsen now”, referring to Bergen-Belsen, a notorious Nazi concentration camp. I was gobsmacked when I read that line, as it seemed so out-of-keeping with the type of story I thought I was reading. But I’m sure Diana Tutton wouldn’t have included it if it didn’t reflect the black humour some of her contemporaries were using when talking about the Holocaust. Thus, the novel is valuable as a cultural artefact of its time and place. All in all, I enjoyed “Guard Your Daughters” very much, particularly because of the picture we are given of the characters of the five talented Harvey sisters and their unusual homelife. The novel’s ending, I have to admit, gave me mixed feelings. The young women of the Harvey household have all been raised like rare plants cultivated in a hothouse atmosphere. You can’t help but wonder how long their individual peculiarities of personality and temperament will survive contact with the rest of society.
@nathansnookАй бұрын
actually, with your note on a stricter tbr, i'm always amazed by the variety of books you read! should one make monthly tbr videos? to keep accountability? would love to see it! The Murderess sounds wonderful, and i'm in the mood for a good NYRB!
@kiranreader11 күн бұрын
i think your onto something!! a monthly tbr! like a guided reading plan! we're bringing back to school energy this winter!!
@jules475Ай бұрын
Who’s this diva 😩😍
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
omggggg 🫶🫶
@marissah8921Ай бұрын
I loved Mouth!!
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
right!! im keeping an eye out for more work by puloma ghosh
@WillMaiJuniorАй бұрын
Yay!
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
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@WillMaiJuniorАй бұрын
@@kiranreader glad to see you are back! Well deserved Vacay. I haven’t been up-to-date with your substack. I am beyond amazed the platform is going through some changes my initial plan is to wait as they made all adjustments to substack, then I will start subscribing and reading. From the looks of things.. it seems like KZbin?
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
@@WillMaiJunior thank you!! i'm happy to be back!! i haven't posted a new newsletter in a little bit... i think i also got a bit overwhelmed by all of the changes that are happening on the platform but i hope to return to it soon!! i am also very curious to see what happens on the platform!
@NerdyNurseReadsАй бұрын
18:48 Mouth sounds like a me collection
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
i think you'd really like it!! and its perfect as a spooky szn read
@yahaira_fАй бұрын
you forgot to mention you had two phenomenal buddy reads with a certain someone!!
@kiranreaderАй бұрын
OMG!!! YES I DID FORGET TO MENTION!!! I'M A MESS!!!!! My reading experience of both the stepdaughter and rhine journey were def enhanced by buddy reading with you!!!!!!!!!